A New Game is launched After revealing he was ordered to destroy his copy of Fallout’s source code, OG lead Tim Cain says we’re losing game history because companies “take authority but not responsibility” for preservation is launched.
After revealing he was ordered to destroy his copy of Fallout’s source code, OG lead Tim Cain says we’re losing game history because companies “take authority but not responsibility” for preservationnew features
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“I think more companies need to step up and take that responsibility more seriously”
After revealing he was ordered to destroy his copy of Fallout’s source code, OG lead Tim Cain says we’re losing game history because companies “take authority but not responsibility” for preservation new features
Original Fallout lead Tim Cain has a big hand in gaming history, and has publicly lamented the state of game preservation more than once. Cain himself has tried to save a fair bit of the history around his games, and it all serves as a perfect illustration of just why game preservation is so hard to do effectively.
In a new video, Cain laments how game companies keep losing old development materials while actively obstructing their employees from doing their own preservation work.
“If you take the authority to keep these things and tell other people not to, and they have no right to, then you also have to take the responsibility to keep them,” Cain says. “It just kind of makes me mad when repeatedly companies, and especially people high up at companies, take authority but not responsibility.”