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[–] them@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It does safeguard to some extent. The goty editions will typically have all patches that didn't exist on the launch version. This is usually an issue for offline play/preservation where the platform that would provide you with updates no longer exist.

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, having all of the patches is another good thing about GOTY editions.

But this still have nothing to do with GOTY editions stopping our games from disappearing. They still can't, btw.

[–] CazzoBuco@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Easier to have 1 file in the seedbox vs several