fatslob-:O said:
Just bad argument ... What do you do when the said physical copies of the game are non-functional and what do you do when digital copies aren't being distributed anymore ? No physical copies, and no distrubution won't happen until over a decade after a game's release. I fully support the emulation of defunct and ancient game systems. The problem is that people are kidding themselves when they think that pirating a game on day one, is somehow contributing to saving said games. Is the guy who hacks movies while they are still in the theatre contributing to the preservation of said movie? Just because there exists a digital format that is legally distributed is not a guarantee their propogation and neither should we assume that hardware lifespan is infinite either so emulation is an absolute necessity to experience those content and maybe piracy too ... (What do we do if there's no legal copies in circulation left ?) No legal copies in circulation left? That almost never happens, and won't happen for the vast majority of games until most of the posters on these forums are elderly citizens. And steam games absolutely need to be saved in case Valve Corporation's servers shutdown ... (How are we going to redownload the games we deleted before too ?) At least you're consistent about it. Props for that. Let's suppose Steam shuts down tomorrow and never comes back up. Would it be impossible to get the files for the games that are still on many people's harddrives and hack them? For example: I have Darkest Dungeon on my PC via steam. If my PC were the last surviving harddrive on earth with Darkest Dungeon still on it, wouldn't there be a way for future historians to salvage the contents of my PC harddrive, thus saving the game? What about PS4 harddrives? |
