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Publishers Have Finally Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About Retro Games (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To the publishers, scarcity is a resource to be preserved. And destroying old games is as much their right as torching the Warner catalogue is David Zaslav’s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The logical result of the game industry's takeover by "Packaged Goods industry" types.