[tiseno]

There are a LOT of modern games released with modding capabilities, just not most of triple A games, one I can actually think of is Skyrim which still has an active modding community. CSGO, Dota 2, StarCraft 2, Arma, is other examples.

When people say "golden age" how i understand it is that they feel like it was "better" experience playing the games then, and for me it means i enjoy playing games just as much now as i did when i was 15.

Sure, game preservation sucks, nothing I have given any thought. But that is not what I am talking about, I thought we were talking about the quality of games and how much people enjoy playing said games, not the state of the industry at large, privacy, DRM, and the future of gaming.

[monster99]

Dude the fact that the industry is stealing games and openly gloats it wants to make all games "services" (aka never give you a local application). Is the end goal.

So yeah, you need to know about the state of the industry to understand where game companies are taking us and it isn't for our benefit.

I do not want every new game to be an app controlled by googles cloud and thats exactly what the game industry wants. They want to move us all to the dumb terminal model of computing.

If you can't see that, you are blind. They openly talk about it on businss sites.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-01-making-pir...

[tiseno]

I am in no way saying that you are wrong, I am having a totally different conversation about games.