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Heads up, starting to see obvious AI-generated comments attempting to (badly) refute the campaign. This comment was so ridiculous they obviously took it down, but I have no doubt the industry and its sycophants are fervently trying to adapt to come up with the best responses to slow this down. A common thread I'm seeing now is pushing for the middle-ground "lets' just put disclaimers or notices to warn customers the game could shut down at any time" solution, sidestepping the entire issue of games preservation.

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@daisekihan Yes Louis Rossman can tell you all about how "progressive" the laws in NY are. ;) @Jay Good catch. Here are a couple of similiar articles: https://archive.is/wlsHT https://www.ubisoft.com/en-au/help/the-crew/purchases-and-rewards/article/availability-of-the-crew/000107591

Damn guys this is good stuff, I logged in just to say thanks to both of you. I thought about going in and searching for these myself at some point, but as you pointed out YouTube comments are hell to parse. I'm glad you went and did it so I'm never tempted to waste my time. I hope Ross saw this.

Hey @Ross Scott did you see this yet? I wouldn't normally ping you but this is probably of importance to you, and I don't use twitter. https://nichegamer.com/ken-akamatsu-task-force-classic-games/ He's got my vote. Apologies to the mods if this should have gone in the Video Game Preservation thread.

Honestly, it seems like things are beginning to make sense. More later.

@Im_CIA It seems we've come across an alien spacecraft.

@ajhhc Game Dungeon: The Division.

Found the answer. In the February chat near the beginning he said it was claimed because of the clip he used from the Survivors TV series with the guard and the prisoner.

Why is The Division being claimed by the BBC? It sounded like a topic everyone else knew about and I'm out of the loop. Don't remember that being mentioned before.

In 2019 someone finally did a Let's Play of this and we get to see the ending: https://youtu.be/_i6w0oDUpTc?t=1222 So slight correction to the video (if you haven't already mentioned this in a follow-up), it's not clear that the "dead" guy at the end is wearing skis and he might not be dead. He could be dead though. Probably just passed out. Not going to ping Ross because I assume he gets these if he wants to.

But Ross isn't some random internet person. He's our best friend and Father.

Agreed, one of my favorite games is Alpha Centauri and it wouldn't be the same if you had to build up to zerg rush your opponents base instead of methodically planning out your empire. You could even play SMAC by email. In an ideal golden age of video games there would be a game for everyone, including those of us that like slow turn-based strategy.

All they need to do is remove the calls to SecuRom. It's been done by many Steam publishers. In fact they could just upload one of the cracked executables floating around and call it a day. (not that they would, but either way it's not much work)

There's definitely no way to tell without trying. It's OK nobody expects you to be an early adopter. It will be there when you're ready. (Just don't try one of those cheapo phone holders and think that's VR. Although it would demonstrate that the screen distance to eyes is irrelevant, it wouldn't give you the full experience.)