I wrote a Python script that says “lol” last week.
50 years from now, it’ll still be runnable, and it’ll still say “lol”.
Unless I update it to say “Ubisoft sucks dick”.
leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Support for all games cannot last forever.”
…
Again and again and again… Sigh… Sadly I’m sure many of the comission will just believe that shit…
But then again, the big companies are obviously scared, that’s a good sign at least.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 months ago
errer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you don’t update it to say “Ubisoft sucks dick,” you don’t support games!
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 3 months ago
lol
kwarg@mander.xyz 3 months ago
lol
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
If you don’t update it I doubt that.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
So?
Emulate.
As long as the application doesn’t rely on something external like a server that no longer exists, it can always be run.
This isn’t about system changing. If you can either find the original hardware or simulate it, it should run. Not just go “lol no, expiry date passed, no longer functional”.
You’re saying it can sometimes be practically impossible. That doesn’t mean it has to theoretically and actually impossible, too.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Well then pls get me an emulator for GamePark GP2X pls? Come on it isn’t even 20 years old.
This is a very entitled take in my opinion, by all means. Further it shows me that you never wrote an emulator nor that you can even fathom how hard emulation actually is. All software that you use relies on external systems mostly your hardware and your operating system. Recreating both is extremely hard and time consuming so it is mostly done due to personal involvement and nostalgia. Both of which will not happen for something like python that is mostly used by scientists to cobble together c libraries.
Without an os or hardware even an open source project will not be able to run. And this even ignores that emulators often don’t even run the software the same way so you are not really playing the same game.
I answered a very very very polemic and populistic take and didn’t even say anything about how closed or open source code should be or how accessible software should be that is just what you interpreted into what I wrote.
kablez@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ever heard of an emulator?
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Ever written one? I did. Did you? So you know what you are talking about?
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Well yes. Publishers of physical books absolutely cannot not put a piece of explosive inside their physical book, whose only point os to burn the book obce said publisher claims it’s impossible to not set off the explosive after 25 years of “support”.
Neither games nor gamers don’t need “support”. What they need is to not actively be belittled, castrated and mutilated by publishers.
If this was done in the physical realm wirh equivalent tactics, there’d also be outrage.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
That active modding and coding communities exist to keep older gamers working into the modern era is reason enough to show people just love games.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
SLG isnt even asking for support to last forever. They have repeatedly been very clear about that.