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maybe one of the reasons I like video games as a space is that, perhaps because they are treated more like art than like software, no technology becomes truly outdated. there are games from 40 years ago that people still want to play, for fun, not just as a historical curiosity.

@hikari it seems the focus has shifted entirely. Today it's about graphics, and how-to extract the most money (in-game items, subscriptions, ...). Back then game-play / story-telling was priority - arguably, also due to technical limitations.

@franz among the big game publishers? yeah, absolutely. but there’s still indies