Post AL4NfjlAP9ZbAT1OM4 by tilden@tech.lgbt
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 (DIR) Post #AL3yEPS1J4m3VZwEIi by urusan@fosstodon.org
       2022-07-01T23:35:52Z
       
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       Is it acceptable for a (paid) early access game to regularly invalidate old saved games?
       
 (DIR) Post #AL3zRmIhlMwC5uWH3Y by steffo@fosstodon.org
       2022-07-01T23:49:31Z
       
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       @urusan It's acceptable even for a non-early access game, if a way to play on older versions is provided.
       
 (DIR) Post #AL43wpCtPJEvtxrQTg by mar77i@gleasonator.com
       2022-07-02T00:39:58.238711Z
       
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       You forgot Jeff buttons on both your polls.
       
 (DIR) Post #AL4Ar2Whfj2P9YJcmW by bluestarultor@tech.lgbt
       2022-07-02T01:57:14Z
       
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       @urusan I get that save data can change drastically as the game does, but at the same time, they could keep a running version number in the save file and allow it to be imported.That's nothing new; Lands of Lore from 1993 had several versions in the wild between the floppy and CD releases and the save files included the version number the save was created in.
       
 (DIR) Post #AL4NfjlAP9ZbAT1OM4 by tilden@tech.lgbt
       2022-07-02T04:20:57Z
       
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       @urusan It depends on how often you have to start over. If it's a management or building game where it takes weeks to do cool things, and new incompatible versions come out no more than a couple of times a year, that's fine (this also assumes the new features are worth starting over for). Meanwhile, if that same game has you starting over every month I would get tired of it pretty quickly.
       
 (DIR) Post #AL4RVp3IGxniVE1nRw by dhfir@expired.mentality.rip
       2022-07-02T05:04:00.016495Z
       
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       @steffo @urusan would that still countbas invalidating?
       
 (DIR) Post #AL5hhB08ncVkBdwuOG by trekkie1701c@fosstodon.org
       2022-07-02T19:40:03Z
       
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       @urusan I kind of lean towards "No" because of how early Kerbal Space Program was.  There were a lot of breaking changes to save files and no real ability to convert them... so I'd spend a bunch of time trying to set up space infrastructure only to have that erased.  Start over.  Erased again.  Etc.I still can't do megaprojects in KSP because even though I know it's irrational, I'm worried the work will vanish again.