Maybe a doomer take, but I honestly don't see the issue.<br>In the long-run, you're going to have a new favorite game anyway. Yeah, it sucks that the one you liked back in the day no longer works, but why would you technically want to be stuck in the past?<br>I'm not a psychologist, but if my understanding is to be believed, I feel like clinging to something that's that old and a relic of your young days isn't really healthy for the mind either.,(reply>), @John Negri I feel like family photos, musical compositions for unrequited loves and VIDEO GAMES are kind of different though, don't you think?<br>The first 2 include real people and real experiences, whilst the latter is literally a manufactured experience with fake people. In MMO's you could say it's slightly different, but even that doesn't actually portray real life in any meaningful way other than maybe gaining friends and loved ones that will probably exist in your life outside of that specific video game anyway.<br>I'm against being this attached to video games. It's like falling in love with your escapism. All that follows is misery.<br>In the contrary, if you were to simply look in the future of gaming you could see that as just an experience among many and the children that eventually spawn, will experience the same thing you did, just on wildly different games. So who's to say you can't do the same?<br>A difference in values I guess? I simply don't think games are that much of an important aspect about life, despite the fact I no-life pretty much all day on games anyway.,(reply>), Wow! I’ve been scrolling through the comments section for an inordinate amount of time and I can say this is the first take such as this that I have come across. "or if it interferes with your enjoyment of daily life“:  the DSM4TR from when I was a psychology major 20 years ago had the interesting characteristic of the above phrase repeated with the consistency of a musical refrain. what a first year psychology student quickly learns is that you could literally diagnose absolutely anyone with absolutely any condition in that diagnostic manual because so much is left up to interpretation. We would always laugh and say things like, but it doesn’t get in the way of me enjoying my life. equivocation is what you have going on in your above comment A situation in which someone needs to carry around an 8 x 10 of their family and hang it up in every building they enter because, if they don’t, something bad will happen to them and someone else reminiscing about old times while going through an old photo album have precious little to do with each other, except for the presence of pictures. Song Fuer Elise was written for an unrequited love. I don’t think anyone would tell Den Ludwig van  Beethoven that he should just burn her letters because it’s not healthy to dwell on the past. Vorliebe für Morgen just doesn’t have the same ring to it, even if tomorrow may come with its own preferences.