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Why Updates Are Bad
Cordova, TN; August 3, in the year of our Lord 2015--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is using our skills in investigative
journalism to expose why updates are bad. Most gamers would
associate updates with bug fixes. Companies released broken
products (that they took our money for) and they use updates to
fix the broken portions. That is true. Like we exposed recently
companies can also use it to steal content from players. They
can use it to block player generated content. They can also use
it to break a game entirely. Take Ash II for example. I recently
went back to play the game. It crashed on every single device. I
checked and it no longer exists in the app store. I can no
longer find an iTunes page for it. Why are these companies
stealing from us?
I like to take my time with games. Sometimes I leave a game
alone for years, and then come back to it. This removal of
products is extremely annoying. The game works fine. Money was
paid for the game. How can they justify stealing it from us
later? This is another reason I like physical copies of games. I
like it when there are no Internet updates to a game. I want to
play it when I feel like - even if that is years later. This
removal of games later on is increasing the image of these
downloadable only video games being disposable. I went to SRRN
Games website and they have links for information on Ash, Ash
II, and Ash on the Android. All of those links are dead and
broken. They don’t work. I could not find a way to email them to
ask.
Ash II is not the first time Family Friendly Gaming has run into
this update removal problem. Yslandia is another wonderful
example. This neat little action adventure role playing video
game was removed. Not only removed but completely broken since
it only had an online mode. They pulled the plug on their
servers and all the money families put into Yslandia went down
the drain. Updates can certainly fix problems. It is frustrating
to see when updates do the opposite. This is a reason I will not
upgrade to Windows 10 until I absolutely have to. I have already
lost some software thanks to upgrading to Windows 8.1. We have
to run some software on Windows 7 since Microsoft can not
comprehend concepts like backwards compatibility. It should not
be that difficult to allow software that works on older
operating systems to work on the new operating system. Yet every
single upgrade we run into problems. It has gotten so bad I only
upgrade when we get a new machine. If it works on a current
system, we do not mess with it. Too many bad experiences thanks
to updates breaking things.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming