kpreid comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: kpreid 12 March 2013 02:55:03AM *  3 points [-]

Some entertainment items aren't available at a later date.

Oh, good point. One natural (not artificially limited) case of this is: other players, and public servers, for online multiplayer games.

Comment author: Error 12 March 2013 11:30:03AM 3 points [-]

That's actually a much better example than mine. Journey, for example, is fantastic, but a large part of what makes it so will be lost when the playerbase shrinks and/or the servers shut down.