alessandro@lemmy.ca to

PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 15 days ago

'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation

www.pcgamer.com

5

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

275

'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation

www.pcgamer.com

alessandro@lemmy.ca to

PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 15 days ago

5

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

Cain said he wasn't allowed to save the original Fallout's source code for his own archive, and some of its assets may be lost for good.

Chat

gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
71·
15 days ago
The article didn’t mention it but he’s said before Interplay called him years later hoping he did still have it because they had lost it all.

PC Gaming@lemmy.ca

pcgaming@lemmy.ca

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

Be Respectful.
No Spam or Porn.
No Advertising.
No Memes.
No Tech Support.
No questions about buying/building computers.
No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
No Let’s Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

281 users / day
2.3K users / week
4.35K users / month
6.89K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
11.8K subscribers
553 Posts
4.1K Comments
Modlog