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Why old games never die (but new ones do)

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  • M mesamunefire@piefed.social
    24 May 2025, 22:36
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    trex202@lemmy.world
    wrote on 25 May 2025, 00:04 last edited by
    #2

    There's a LOT of old games that aren't good.

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      murrayl@lemmy.world
      wrote on 25 May 2025, 08:35 last edited by
      #3

      It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop.

      Kicking off an article with such a provably incorrect and inflammatory statement is certainly a choice.

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      • M murrayl@lemmy.world
        25 May 2025, 08:35

        It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop.

        Kicking off an article with such a provably incorrect and inflammatory statement is certainly a choice.

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        markovs_gun@lemmy.world
        wrote on 25 May 2025, 09:17 last edited by
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        Yeah and looking at the past with rose colored glasses. There was plenty of "slop" in the past. It was such a problem in the earliest days of video games that it almost killed the entire industry.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

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          omegalemmy@discuss.online
          wrote on 25 May 2025, 09:24 last edited by
          #5

          What was it called again? Survivor Bias?

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          • T trex202@lemmy.world
            25 May 2025, 00:04

            There's a LOT of old games that aren't good.

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            yermaw@lemm.ee
            wrote on 25 May 2025, 09:38 last edited by
            #6

            Its the same with music and films. They were so much better in the past and here's the examples. Not included in the examples are the thousands of songs and bands that didn't stand the test of time.

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            • O omegalemmy@discuss.online
              25 May 2025, 09:24

              What was it called again? Survivor Bias?

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              mriswith@lemmy.world
              wrote on 25 May 2025, 09:59 last edited by
              #7

              Survivorship/survival bias.

              And yeah, it's the same old "they really knew how to make * in the past". Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It's just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don't.

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              • Y yermaw@lemm.ee
                25 May 2025, 09:38

                Its the same with music and films. They were so much better in the past and here's the examples. Not included in the examples are the thousands of songs and bands that didn't stand the test of time.

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                mbech@feddit.dk
                wrote on 25 May 2025, 11:28 last edited by
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                There were other bands in the 80's than Guns and Roses and ABBA?

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                  jeebaichow@lemmy.world
                  wrote on 25 May 2025, 11:57 last edited by
                  #9

                  No required online components that get stopped.

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                  • M mriswith@lemmy.world
                    25 May 2025, 09:59

                    Survivorship/survival bias.

                    And yeah, it's the same old "they really knew how to make * in the past". Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It's just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don't.

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                    yodadacoda@aussie.zone
                    wrote on 25 May 2025, 13:11 last edited by
                    #10

                    Listen my spoons from the 1950's cannot be beat. I hate how hard it is to find them.

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                    • Y yodadacoda@aussie.zone
                      25 May 2025, 13:11

                      Listen my spoons from the 1950's cannot be beat. I hate how hard it is to find them.

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                      clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
                      wrote on 25 May 2025, 13:33 last edited by
                      #11

                      Have you looked in your silverware drawer?

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                      • M mriswith@lemmy.world
                        25 May 2025, 09:59

                        Survivorship/survival bias.

                        And yeah, it's the same old "they really knew how to make * in the past". Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It's just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don't.

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                        whatstheholdup@lemmy.ml
                        wrote on 25 May 2025, 13:44 last edited by
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                        And yeah, it's the same old "they really knew how to make * in the past". Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It's just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don't.

                        Idk, there's certain structures like the pyramids where you gotta give credit where credit is due.

                        They really knew how to make some shit.

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