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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Old games were also typically steaming piles of shit. It's just that the ones people still remember are the worthwhile ones, because the bad ones have gone into the dustbin of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not.

There were so many bad platformers for the Super Nintendo, but nobody is ever going to go back and play those or dredge them up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah that's a good point. As a kid I felt like when I bought a game it'd at least be complete, but there were plenty of terrible games back then too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'll grant the completeness point. Internet access everywhere has kind of lessened what it means to "release".