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Upgrade Madness
Cordova, TN; September 17, in the year of our Lord
2018--Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in
covering the family friendly video games is coming back to an
issue the video game industry still has. Let me preface this
issue with the kind of person I am. I love going back to older
games and playing them. Nothing irritates me more than finding
out what I paid for years ago no longer works. Is it the system?
Is it the game itself? The odd thing is this rarely happens with
physical copy video games. It does however happen with apps all
of the time. It aggravates me to no end. I paid money for that.
How can they take it away?
This is one of the many reasons Family Friendly Gaming has been
so supportive of the physical copy movement. I am sick and tired
of digital downloads no longer working. Apple upgrades the iOS
version and all these games stop working. Whatever happened to
backwards compatibility? I remember that being a big thing ten
years ago. Now all of a sudden these companies want us to
upgrade, and lose a significant portion of our games. This is
another reason I am not into the apps as much anymore. I like to
play games at my pace. That may be coming back to a game years
later. Companies like Apple deny me that right.
I have gotten to the point where I do not upgrade unless I
absolutely have to. When it comes to Windows I turned that off.
I am sick and tired of watching software stop working. What is
worse is when this software is needed by our business. No
company with video games should ever release any updates or
patch that breaks any software that runs on it. Apple is beyond
irresponsible. Apple tries to claim the company that made the
game must update it. Why must they financially reinvest in a
game? Especially when they have already been paid for the game.
They don’t care if we lose access to our favorite games. These
same companies can just pull the game from the digital stores
because upgrade madness stole from us again. What do you think
about this issue? Have you lost games because of upgrades?
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming
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