Warner Brothers' greedy Microtransactions in Shadow of War.

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Cerebralbore101 said:

librarian13579 said:

Hey, I'm really glad you use our service. You may have verified some of the games that I've personally dumped myself, haha.

I think it's incredibly sad that future libraries 100 years from now will have the entire library of PS1 and PS2 games available for perusal once it all hits the public domain...but so many PS4/XBO/PC games will be either broken or lost to the sands of time. It's always depressed the hell out of me that so much of the early history of our art form will be lost....similar to 90% of the black-and-white movies from the 1890s-1920s that are now gone forever out of sheer neglect.

You guys are acting like physical disks won't last 100 years from now. Is there something I don't know about this? We have painting that are 500 years old sitting in museums. Why won't there be 500 year old copies of game disks in the future? 

Most won't.

Discs are very fragile, especially if you compare them to carts - discs decay, scratch, break easily, and believe you me, lots of crap will get lost over this 100-yr period. There is also the fact that even if discs survive, will the lasers that read them survive as well?

Preservation by other means is exteremely important if you, like myself, value your past in gaming.