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by tmpz22 733 days ago
I'd love to see the market demographics behind these games - gut says its elderly who forget about the subscription entirely.

GameDevs who build games for such demographics should feel bad for preying on them.

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My grandfather was happily playing card games (as well as using productivity software) on a DOS machine up until he passed in 2011. For the most part, I don't understand modern software (despite working in it). That said, I personally eliminated all Microsoft products from my life a few years back and I wish more people could do the same.
Had to check the date to make sure we weren’t related ;)

My grandpa passed away 5 years ago and still had a working Win95 box from the mid 90s that he used for card games.

Yeah, my grandpa was still using it with a dot matrix printer and some crazy old database program in order to send out mailers for some local community/political organization stuff.

But I get it - I’d still be running Windows 7 if they’d have just let it be.