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I really think you are mischaracterizing why people play on these. If the game is as sub par as you claim then why would people play even if free? Lots of free games come and go every year.

You touch on this a bit, but I feel it warrants emphasising - Nostalrius is a non-factor in the legacy WoW commnity right now. There’s several servers up serving tens of thousands of people, including the operators of new Nostalrius - Elysium - who are keeping most of their services up, just removing anything to do…

EXACTLY. Good costumer support exists only after you go public on how no costumer support is helping you.

I always have a laugh at these stories since it always involves Sony or Microsoft claiming it’s not their fault, but then it ends up being their fault.

The idea that Pokemon retreat to some Neko Atsume pleasure palace makes it all the stranger that they try to escape your Pokeballs and even monstrous that you dump them out onto the ground to fight each other. Poor Chandelier, chillin in his art deco coal brazier, sippin a glass of Fireball when all of a sudden his…

I like the part where he laughs at the question and follows it up with a feel good answer. Those Pokémon are inside a tiny dark prison.

I LOLed so god damn hard at your comment.

Bullshit. Bullshit

I’m of the “data” mindset, I mean they’re stored in a PC...

I always trust my local dogfighter when he says his dogs are all looked after in luxury hotels.

People are still making sorching hot takes with dead memes I see.

In my view that makes your article about it 90% less interesting. So you like being self-indulgent, but you can’t appreciate that from a game, and then you want to write about it. Ok, cool, or whatever. I thought it was a game that tried to be special in its own way, and succeeded about 90%. The journey was…

90% of it? Wow, I don’t agree at all. And I find that view very surprising on the end of an ostensibly praise-filled revisitation. If the graphics are the only part of the game you connected with, I think there's a lot that flew over your head.

That’s weird that you only think 10% of the game is worth keeping. So, just the aesthetic? You want Mario Paint: Okami?

I came away from this piece not sure what you think the flaws are, other than being too long (which I disagree with). You say that it’s too much like Zelda, but don’t explain why that’s a bad thing. And... not about combat? Half the “puzzles” were puzzle bosses.

I also feel you are missing something. It’s hard to understand in this age of “I need a new game every two weeks” and “I’m happy having spent a day with this 60 dollar purchase” that in those times games were very much like their own hobby. Although not uncommon to have a few casual games, most gamers then really…

90%? We were obviously playing different games. In my opinion, that’s what’s lacking in most of todays games...meat and depth. They're far to short and with the exception of a few outliers, they have no respect for the player. They're far to easy.

obligatory comment about how a cool art style holds up better 10 years later than cutting edge graphics.

Screw the terms of service. Me doing what I want with the content I paid for is more important than corporate paranoia about me uploading their stuff to the internet. I don't do that. I have many DVD's and blu-rays that I've ripped and they would be almost useless to me if I couldn't rip them in the first place.