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Perhaps publishers could state an end-of-support-life date for their games at release, providing a guarantee to buyers that the game would be...

Thanks, Balboa. got me on my way again. Calling it a day now, 5 Shrines, 2 Secrets & 6026 loot. Got the Gems & Wealth of Sarnoff. Loved the...

Austerity for thee:

In a confluence of events, as agencies like NOAA and FEMA are being defunded, as weather and climate research is being axed, as severe weather events...

Games are shut down way before publishers start losing money. Losing money is the absolute worst case scenario. They are shut down as soon as profits...

I believe that one of the indirect goals of the initiative is also to force authorities to make an explicit statement on the levels of consumer...

ahh, the topic of depression. lets just say that I'm now further away from my childhood, than my childhood is from the end of WW2.

Games have a finite lifespan as a viable economic product. Once sales drop beyond a point, the publisher and/or developer will lose money keeping...

Oops. I'll clean that up in another bugfix release. Another bug, that was (unfortunately) discovered during a live stream (very embarrassing :o): If...

Having fun with this one! Completed the main mission pretty quickly, but now searching for the non-essential stuff. It's a fairly stress-free stroll...

So true lil' bro.

I'm twenty-three this year, and I started playing the classic Thief series when I was in high school. The exact year escapes me for the moment.

That's exactly what happens, in the original we just run around with them chasing us and don't even bother wasting time killing them.

Well, yes, in a sense -- people developing games would have to keep some kind of end of life plan in mind for the game while they are developing it...

I think it's between the two. It's about releasing the game in a playable state when support is discontinued and servers are shut down, which implies...

You're right, looks like the ecology period for the Rumbler spawner was changed from 1 second to 5 seconds back in 2014. Oddly, this change isn't...

I'm a little sad that I didn't get the annual auto generated birthday message from TTLG this year. I'm not sure if I changed a setting or if there...

It's not about developers keeping the game playable after support is discontinued, it's about the publisher not disabling a game when they...

I don't agree with Ross that people expect video games to last indefinitely. Video games are software + art, and software becomes obsolete,...

43, first discovered the Thief 1 Bafford demo in a Tomb Raider CD back in 2003. I played it, didn't feel it initially. A few weeks later, decided to...

Reminded me of the Los Lunas stone, a stone in New Mexico, inscribed with the Ten Commandments in paleo-Hebrew, an obvious but very craftily done...

A take of two leaders: "Where the German soldier sets foot, there he remains." -- Adolf Hitler “Whatever a Russian soldier’s foot steps on...

I'm 72 and playing the Thief games since New Year's Day 1999. Our children & Grandchildren are players too. I tolerate the reboot Thi4f but only for...

That is a lovely story. :D I still have to check out Thievery.

Calling that a "fight" is being generous.

What the CIA was investigating was pretty much Soviet disinfo. Russian intelligence operations immediately started spreading several different...

I'll be turning 52 in August.. rediscovered Thief 2 as a demo on a CD from some gaming magazine.. (I forget which one) I like other FPS-style...

Apparently, not only did Epstein definitely commit suicide, there are also no perpetrators in the thousands of hours of video material recovered from...