Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines
ZeroPoke@lemmy.ca 2 months agoActually there were update still cause the games were only little less broken. It’s updates were so much harder for everyone. Hosting them, finding them, knowing there were updates, having to apply updates in specific orders.
Steam has been a good send for that.
Maybe I’m just old
Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not old enough, heh. The cartridges/CDs this commenter are talking about had to have rock-solid code because patching wasn’t possible. You’d have to make an entire new print run, and very few games of that era ever had those.
shaggymatt@midwest.social 2 months ago
And guess what? They still had multiple versions! Ask any Link to the Past speedrunner. 1.0 is broken as hell!
Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ya, Nintendo was certainly one of the exceptions. Benefits of your game having an insanely long tail.