• @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    54•3 months ago

    Nah bad post. I would prefer if they made them free, but not selling things because they are abandoned or some people dont like them is shit. Preserve all games as much as possible. Lots of famous art wouldnt exist today if we were to throw everything away that isnt seen as good or finished at the time. A warning label is perfect, let people know that it might not be what they expect, but let people play it if they want to.

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
      5•3 months ago

      Yeah reminder that Van Gogh didn’t sell but one of his own paintings during his lifetime for sure. Although he did sell a lot of other people’s paintings when he was 15 and worked in an art gallery.

      I can’t find a specific clip but if people have seen Doctor Who Van Gogh episode, where he’s just treated like garbage and a shit painter.

      I think on QI they also mentioned once he was just like a teacher in the UK at one point. There’s good jokes as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2TBmLARlA

      It’s not exactly the same for some of those abandoned cash-grabs I guess, but the point is we can’t really know, so I definitely agree with you that we shouldn’t just delete them.

        • @Dasus@lemmy.world
          2•3 months ago

          Ah, but “the clip” is prolly referring to basically the climax of the episode, if it’s the clip where the Doctor takes him to the Musée d’Orsay.

          But you miss all the buildup of the episode, and personally I think Doctor Who is very good at it. They show Van Gogh’s desperation and loneliness in the episode. And then to have that sort of fantastical acceptance from the entire world.

          There’s a lot of that sort of story in Doctor Who, I greatly recommend. As far as scifi goes, Dr Who is whimsical and emotional and doesn’t really care about tiny details of tech and lore as opposed to Star Trek which is like very methodical and logical and clinical.

          In Doctor Who emotions are the hero in like at least half the stories. This wasn’t even one of them, just a random monster story basically.

  • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
    6•3 months ago

    To be fair, I’d rather abandoned early access games have a warning rather than be flat out unsellable. In an ideal world in my opinion, any abandoned early access game on Steam would be either be set as a free to play game or be marked down to a ridiculously low price like 99¢ rather than being outright unsellable.

    I would get it if the publisher and/or developers decided to remove a game, make it real cheap, or outright make it free to play. Letting Steam decide what happens? Maybe as a last resort sort of thing where they send something like an email saying that if they don’t do substantial updates and/or reply back, their product will be made free to play or marked at a heavily reduced price.