PSA: "Dead" games are still playable

[Reynard]

This might not be the actual issue though. Yeah, you-singular can keep playing a game. By yourself. But there's a mass market out there, and it responds to what advertisers are telling it, right here, right now.

"Hey local game community, let's try a game of (dead game)!"

"Yeah, sorry, we just got the sample app of the new 1D&D game through Facecrack, and our dragonborn-species paladins can't level up unless we use the QR codes in the new player's handbook *copyright *trademark *all rights reserved. Maybe next time?"

None of that has anything to do with what I was talking about.

 

[Umbran]

None of that has anything to do with what I was talking about.

It seems to me it speaks rather directly to your assertion: "...doesn't mean you can't find players."

 

[Reynard]

It seems to me it speaks rather directly to your assertion: "...doesn't mean you can't find players"

The internet is a big place. It's not like LFG for dead games isn't already a thing.

 

[Umbran]

The internet is a big place. It's not like LFG for dead games isn't already a thing.

So, first, I don't get what you mean by this. Could you please rephrase it?

As you do so, please remember that I was responding to "none of that has anything to do with what I said."

If what you want to say is that game stores are not the only place to find games, that's fine. But noting there are other solutions to the problem is not the same as saying that their statement isn't even on the same subject matter.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I am not sure my table could go back to play 1e/2e- maybe 3e/Pathfinder. Every change brings in some new rules and options that stick for a reason and to make a play at 2e and still have things like THAC0 and no feats and the d20 system for stats would be a big step back. I have not looked much at some of the new remakes of the OSE and such so they may have changed enough from the original to be its own game by now.

My table went back to 2E. 3 of the 5 players only ever played 5th. 2 of those 3 love it due to the increased grit. The lone hold out just feels her character is underpowered (she always plays Druids). I've been loving it as the DM.

 

[John Dallman]

This might not be the actual issue though. Yeah, you-singular can keep playing a game. By yourself. But there's a mass market out there, and it responds to what advertisers are telling it, right here, right now.

That depends if you are a group that wants to keep on playing said game. If you are, it's easy enough.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

If your company gets sued out of business, I guess you can just keep doing the work for no pay.

 

[Reynard]

So, first, I don't get what you mean by this. Could you please rephrase it?

As you do so, please remember that I was responding to "none of that has anything to do with what I said."

If what you want to say is that game stores are not the only place to find games, that's fine. But noting there are other solutions to the problem is not the same as saying that their statement isn't even on the same subject matter.

The post I responded to did not say anything about game stores. It intimated -- oddly -- that folks were too deluded by social media to want to do anything but the new thing. That wasn't really relevant to my initial post -- which was that despite a game being discontinued or otherwise dead, you can still play it.

This thread was in response to people on these boards saying things like they are abandoning levelUp because it might be "de-authorized" or whatever. That's ridiculous, even if that were to happen.

 

[Reynard]

If your company gets sued out of business, I guess you can just keep doing the work for no pay.

What does that even mean in the context of this thread?

 

[payn]

What does that even mean in the context of this thread?

It's the point of folks concern that you seemed to completely have missed.