The Rust Belt

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  1. Customer Service by the Book

    So, what do you do when some­thing goes wrong and your cus­tomers do not get the value they have been promised? You react instantly and admit the prob­lem exists:

    Despite GOG’s pre­re­lease test­ing process, it’s appar­ent that Moto Racer 2 has some seri­ous game­play issues due to the remains of copy pro­tec­tion left over from back in the day. This spe­cific issue is caused by copy pro­tec­tion remain­ing in the game we’ve dis­trib­uted; it’s not caused by con­flicts with spe­cific hard­ware or soft­ware setups. This affects everyone’s game, and that’s a problem.

    it gets even rustier →

  2. Industry Insiders Say: PC Games Are Held Back By Consoles (So What?)

    Developing games for PC and con­sole mar­kets are two dif­fer­ent tasks but as more and more titles become parts of multi-platform fran­chises that need to fare as best as pos­si­ble in terms of total sales, game stu­dios have to sac­ri­fice the ambi­tion to develop each ver­sion to the full poten­tial of its native plat­form and accept some com­pro­mises in order to make their games as acces­si­ble as pos­si­ble for dif­fer­ent audiences.

    it gets even rustier →