X-Box One update failure raises awkward questions about the future prospects of console hardware
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
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That is always going to happen at some point, no matter what. There's a reason why so many are against DRM, single-player games requiring online, inability to host private servers, etc. Every game that fights that will be dead. It's why I buy everything on GOG I can and archive it, and why I'm totally loving my short lived Linux gaming experience so far, because it's just so good at making shit work.
Exactly, for some reason the article is written as if the consoles have suffered a hardware failure or something.
"the situation raises awkward questions about the future prospects of console hardware reliant on an internet connection to fully function" - it actually doesn't though? Things that require online services do in fact require those online services. Wow, shocker. Ultimately, what the console can do while offline is all the console itself is really able to do.
Speaking of Linux, this is also why I'm leery of package managers and looking into ways to archive installed packages before I'd even consider switching.
I don't really bother with archiving just day-to-day software so I don't care too much about keeping packages. I think you could, if anything from the days of offline Linux. It would be a total pain in the ass though.
Most of the games I've gotten going were my GOG games I installed right off my external HDD or disc(s) where I had stored them. Lutris let me point to the exe file of the installer and did the rest. How well it's all worked has far exceeded my expectations, and I'm only a couple weeks in.