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Why old games never die, but new ones do
It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…
You can load your own mods, you can host lobbies with your own custom game rules and moderation, and of course you can ban that guy using an aimbot that managed to get past the anti-cheat (if it exists). Most of this has to do with selling DLC packs, while in the case of Battlefield Bad Company 2 this had to do “officially” with the Frostbite engine having horrible quality editors that needed a special setup at EA to use and couldn’t exactly be released to the public without a lot of code cleanup. Bringing back a dead online game from the grave isn’t a matter of finding some lost media from an eBay listing or some guy who has it on a forgotten external drive or old computer.
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