Like can we make this a more vocal opinion that Triple-A studios/publishers are like legally required to offer a version.. Or what is your take on that, especially if you have a similar opinion with a deviation in execution. let me know why if you dont agree too!

I'd love to have and collect DRM free titles that last even after a platform is gone, also ubi cant pull off clown shows like the crew or whatever racing game they just erased out of power tripping spite

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[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Plastic cases, discs, etc are expensive and degrade over time. Consoles will break down. 50 years from now there'll be too much history to keep making copies of everything worth saving. If we do want a video game preservation law, make it digital.

Emulation and piracy should be legal for games older than ~20 years, or if the parent company goes under. Online games should be required to make an offline mode patch before shutting down.

As a related example, my parents have a bunch of bookshelves packed with everything they bought over the years. And as a kid I never touched any of it because the books had become all gross and yellowed. Physical game archives will last a couple decades longer but in the end it'll be the same result.

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

didnt even think about that.. but how do university libraries for example then keep up their valuable - or even more interesting - their non valuable old inventory? Never thought that degration was THAT potent

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CDs and DVDs are digital media. There is no degradation of the content when you convert a fragile physical disk into a dumped ISO, and the dumped ISO can be stored on an arbitrarily large number of devices. Stuff like physical books or analog media (vinyl records, for example) are worth caring about physical degradation for, but a "physical copy" of a PC software disc is just a more fragile way to store the exact same ones and zeroes that can be stored on actually resilient media.

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

how u do a nice cover like that tho?

I mean even as a trained media designer: this is rather lot of work