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[–] [email protected] 209 points 1 month ago (6 children)

When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws

In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff?

Copy that floppy!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is great and advisable.

But what about online only games that can be nuked whenever the publisher feels like it?

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably depends on the game. I'm pretty sure more popular games or games with a sizable amount of dedicated fans, like the TF2 community, have probably already found a way to make their own private servers or at least are working on it.

[–] DannyBoy 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TF2 has official private server support, from day 1 I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Had absolutely no idea. Good to know.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, many of us are trying. It's fuckin' hard tho when your opposition has billions of dollars and politicians in their back-pocket and our side's greatest asset is the voice of Gordon Freeman from Ross's Game Dungeon presents Freeman's Mind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Video games are probably thought of more as "tech" rather than "culture." And obsolescence is a part of tech.

I don't agree with it, but that is what I think their view on it is.

[–] skulbuny 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

we also should be supporting open source games---if it's open source, it's preservable! these people are already essentially giving up any revenue just to make something for someone else, we should be lifting them up, too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws

Or, don’t treat it like culture but slop to be consumed and discarded. If law is not there, put pressure on publishers to release games under licensing that allows preservation after predetermined amount of time. Maybe make slop ineligible for game awards and remove it from review aggregators. There are ways I’m sure.

…Who am I kidding, nobody is going to do because it would require too much cooperation and people are selfish.