At the beginning of February, Doom creator John Carmack lamented the fact that some games are being killed off without much respect for their existing user base. While he was referring specifically to the zero-gravity sports game Echo VR, which had a sufficiently large audience to attract 17,000 petition signatures, the id Software founder could have been talking about any of several franchises now buried beneath somebody’s patio. "Sunsetting" In 2022 and early 2023, plenty of titles and services were either … [Read more...]