I mean great that they do actual work to preserve games, but this is a commercial store. They should found a non-profit if they want to receive donations.
Yeah, I’m mostly with you on that one. This creates some questions aobut their viability and there isn’t a particularly clear path from it to specific releases.
There was a bit of a mixed reception to this in their Discord server when they first revealed it and despite them taking the feedback quite graciously the final version hasn’t changed much at all.
It’s not a dealbreaker, and if you want to support them by all means, go nuts. I’d maybe politely suggest buying games instead of this, though.
This comes across as absolutely bizarre to me. It’s a for-profit company that is owned by CD Projekt.
If it was an actual foundation it would be different, but “donating” your money so one of the most profitable game companies can make more money seems like a weird thing to do.
The Video Game History Foundation has existed for close to nine years and is actually a non-profit.
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I mean great that they do actual work to preserve games, but this is a commercial store. They should found a non-profit if they want to receive donations.
Yeah, while they may start off running this in an ethical manner, I don’t have a lot of faith that it will remain that way.
Yeah, I’m mostly with you on that one. This creates some questions aobut their viability and there isn’t a particularly clear path from it to specific releases.
There was a bit of a mixed reception to this in their Discord server when they first revealed it and despite them taking the feedback quite graciously the final version hasn’t changed much at all.
It’s not a dealbreaker, and if you want to support them by all means, go nuts. I’d maybe politely suggest buying games instead of this, though.
This comes across as absolutely bizarre to me. It’s a for-profit company that is owned by CD Projekt.
If it was an actual foundation it would be different, but “donating” your money so one of the most profitable game companies can make more money seems like a weird thing to do.
The Video Game History Foundation has existed for close to nine years and is actually a non-profit.