A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers “killing games.”

  • scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    Ask any professional senior software developer if they ever maintained an existing or new codebase and made the mistake of thinking "oh easy! it’s just a matter of doing this or that and changing a couple of small things. Won’t take longer than <small amount of time>. " Then ask them how long it really took.

    Post results here for our amusement :)

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      3 months ago

      My few hours comment was never exact for a reason, but it reasonably conveys that the work requires is trivial in the full game development cycle and not an insurmountable task that will bankrupt game developers like you try to do.

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        3 months ago

        Bloviating and exaggerating with obvious lies won’t get people on your side dude… at least it shouldn’t, but weirder shits been upvoted.