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* "We've Always Done It This Way."

The polar opposite of [[Appeal to Novelty]], where the ''older'' position is right. See [[They Changed It Now It Sucks]], [[Nostalgia Filter]], [[Older Is Better]], and [[Good Old Ways]]. This tends to be rolled out regarding consumer products and morality; in the former case, they don't make 'em like they used to, and in the latter, it was better in the good ol' days. Old ways do tend to be workable, or they don't become old ways in the first place; what makes this a fallacy is the unstated assumption that no better way is possible.

The polar opposite of [[Appeal to Novelty]], where the ''older'' position is right. See [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]], [[Nostalgia Filter]], [[Older Is Better]], and [[Good Old Ways]]. This tends to be rolled out regarding consumer products and morality; in the former case, they don't make 'em like they used to, and in the latter, it was better in the good ol' days. Old ways do tend to be workable, or they don't become old ways in the first place; what makes this a fallacy is the unstated assumption that no better way is possible.

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* Deconstructed in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', as the people of Spira rely solely on the tradition of the Grand Summoner and their pilgrimages in order to defeat [[Eldritch Abomination|Sin]] and bring about The Calm (the period in which the populace can live without fear of their villages being randomly destroyed by an [[Buffy Speak|evil whale-thingy]]). However, this only lasts for a few years at most, so Sin would return again, and perpetuate the 'spiral of death' that the land is caught in. In addition, the [[Technology Is Evil|machina-using]] Al Bhed, the only ones who challenge the ritual because of [[Heroic Sacrifice|what happens to the summoner in the process]], are ostracized by the rest of society, as they believe that Sin was born because of the use of machines.

* Deconstructed in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', as the people of Spira rely solely on the tradition of the Grand Summoner and their pilgrimages in order to defeat [[Eldritch Abomination|Sin]] and bring about The Calm (the period in which the populace can live without fear of their villages being randomly destroyed by an [[Buffy-Speak|evil whale-thingy]]). However, this only lasts for a few years at most, so Sin would return again, and perpetuate the 'spiral of death' that the land is caught in. In addition, the [[Technology Is Evil|machina-using]] Al Bhed, the only ones who challenge the ritual because of [[Heroic Sacrifice|what happens to the summoner in the process]], are ostracized by the rest of society, as they believe that Sin was born because of the use of machines.

* Older gamers and fans of older games often respond this way to games that experiment with new features or new spins on existing video game tropes. If the game fails, it will be because the makers tried to break a video game tradition going back to the NES era.