That's the post, really. Basically everyone is saying it's really good and has no microtransactions, etc. Is it worth a buy, or would I be supporting a woke project?
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Yes your childhood franchises are dead. But honestly, I think there's a good lesson in that.
I've come to realize that some things run their course and are better left off in the past. Baldurs Gate is gone, so move on.
Star Wars is gone, so is Star Trek, and anything else you can think of. But that's not necessarily bad, it's the way things have always been before our current "remake and reboot" era. Movies and TV would end and stay dead.
We just have to understand that these remakes are zombies, the stuff we liked is dead.
We just have to accept it to avoid falling into traps like "hmmm maybe this new BG ain't so bad..." It's not a Baldurs Gate game.
Again for the people in the back.
I've long been a proponent of letting franchises end. Everyone's so addled that they can only think of "oh man I liked thing, so I want more of thing to be produced so I can consume more of thing", rather than having presence of mind to understand that the thing has concluded and to garner more of it would be not only unwise, but frankly defacement.
They want your feelings for good works to "transition" to their hideous depravity.
You like original trek and next gen trek so you like Picard, even though you would hate it if it wasn't called trek.
But I don't think the answer is those works are dead, rather that the new works are dead. Say you love Baldur's Gate and when they start saying anything about the new one get a disgusted look and say not that crap, you like real Baldur's Gate.
They want to confuse the good with the bad, but that confusion also opens the door for us to shame them any time they talk about it. Yeah you'll be the grumpy old man, but we need more of them.
Exactly. One of the better things that could happen would be to reform copyright. Duration is the obvious one. Give copyright for 20-30 years, and then open it up. No more corporations owning literally every single character created in the past century.
I think it'd also be nice if copyright were less transferable in some way. A big part of the problem is caused by megacorps (Disney) buying up rights long after the original creators stopped using their creation (or living). Copyright exists to protect creators and make it viable to create new things without immediately getting ripped off, not to enable the biggest megacorps the right to buy out all the popular IP and then give them legalized monopolies. If rights are sold this way it should immediately forfeit various protections on IP.