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A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers "killing games."

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[–] scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ask any professional senior software developer if they ever maintained an existing or new codebase and made the mistake of thinking "oh easy! it's just a matter of doing this or that and changing a couple of small things. Won't take longer than . " Then ask them how long it really took.

Post results here for our amusement :)