IcaroRibeiro said:
And this is not an issue. Like... at all. Do you think every painting ever made in humanity History is preserved in some way? Any obscure movie ever recorded in academic spaces or even domestic productions? Every piece of poetry ever written? Why pursue to build such insane archive with every piece of gaming ever commercialy released? Do you have any idea of how many games are made every day for tech students and released on Mobile stores? Do you need to preserve them as well? There are pieces of gaming that have historical and cultural importance, some have significance because they introduce some design concepts that can be used in future But the point is we aren't losing knowledge of how to make games. Knowledge is preserved, technology skills are preserved, modern games inherit the concepts of older relevant games and that's all. We don't need to keep the bits of everything. I understand the concern with older relevant rooms from the 70's and the 80's that might be relevant and are being lost, got it. But modern games? They definitely don't need any kind of expensive protection Indeed this game preservation nonsense is nothing but a buzzword for companies to profit over older games. It's to create a perceived monetary value of importance based on historical value which is somewhat how other piece of arts get more value with time. Is something Nintendo realized during seventh gen and other companies ignored for so long: Console gamers are slowly approaching the 40-50 years old demographic What does it mean? Well, let's say boomers have a tendency to think older = better to pretty much everything, now it's gen X who is approaching the second half of their lifes and they are starting to repeating Boomers behavior, their preferences for games are no exception To exploit the feelings of nostalgia and remind their golden years of childhood they need to ensure past games can still run and play alright that's why they are finally developing those emulation teams to make older games playable again, with some fees and costs of course Off-topic. Anecdotal, but I find very interesting using this forum because people here are, in average, older than most of my gaming circle (who are basically people from 16 to 24). You guys help me to give perspective people from my generation and younger than me absolutely don't share. People of my age would never, ever, think not playing an online game ever again to be a concern. |
I think the problem is that we're not talking about the same thing.
With preservation of video games, I'm not talking just about the games themselves, but about their source code.
Just look at the part I bolded from your response. The answer is clearly no. But you don't just take a picture of the Mona Lisa with a camera and put it online and then claim that this way, the painting has been preserved. Yet this is what I read here and what so many seem to understand when they say video game conservation.
As for the off-topic: Glad to give you a view from another angle and perspective.
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