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Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

You see, the problem is that game publishers have been innovating hard…

…ly, so modern games are barely an improvement over old games, except in terms of graphics. In particular, they want to continue not innovating by re-releasing those same old games with new graphics slapped onto them.

If everyone could just play those old titles, then they wouldn’t need to play the new titles, which would be very bad, because it would mean game publishers would need to innovate.

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