I think the real question is, what happens when the OnLive service gets shut off? Inevitably it will cease to exist, whether its a year from now or 30 years from now. When that happens, do we remove it from the DB? Since no one will be able to "own" the games anymore, there's no point in having them in collections. But it would be a part of our duty to retain the information that these games did once exist for future generations.
Right, a big part of this whole site is just documenting gaming history. And I'm never going to buy an OnLive game myself, but it will be certainly be cool to browse through that section of the DB in the future.
-We can still have a record of their existence. Since they are still games and we are THE classic and MODERN video games database. If all digital items break off into their own trackable DB i see no reason why we could not include iOS and WP and whatever other goofy download only gaming mediums we have been passing on for the last few years. That being said no one has ever complained about the iQue being in the DB
!!! Separating them in some way sounds pretty cool, especially if iOS can get added. In the last few years I have played some
good games on my iPod, and some of these iOS exclusives would seriously be in my personal top 10 list if I ever get around to compiling it. Of course there is a ridiculous amount of iOS games out there, and lots of crappy ones, but if its inclusion in the DB would be similar to Xbox Indie Games where just the cream of the crop gets added (or whatever people want), then that sounds good to me.
We've gotta document history, but when it comes to such a vast and not-100%-quality catalog, I think it's perfectly alright if we, well, only document the history people want, right?
Much better than nothing.
Yep, it's the Classic and
Modern Video Games Database, so these titles have got to have some sort of presence. And separating downloadable from physical sounds like an excellent way to do so.
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