All this energy toward preservation is being misused in my opinion. There should be a greater movement to push for copyright law reform. Public domain is too long, and there are certainly corporate entities that are actively fighting to extend it so that it is essentially useless (*cough* Disney).
A lot of people use the preservation argument to hide their piracy behind. I don't know how that's even debatable. You aren't preserving Breath of the Wild or any iteration of Mario or Tetris, nor are you fooling anyone. There's probably like 7 people that truly want to play an obscure NES movie tie in game, and acting like its unavailability is some tragedy kinda makes me want to roll my eyes.
I know you can't openly admit to pirating here, but at least be honest with yourself lmao.
I'm of the opinion that somethings are simply lost to time, and that's just how it is, but hey. I'm not going to knock someone for thinking otherwise.
Publishers need to do more to make legacy titles accessible, damn it. Copyright laws need to be less shitty, damn it.
I feel like I can be of the above opinions while at the same time seeing the vast majority of the proponents of game preservation as wanting free access to games.
Also, good Lord, people need to get off
Professor Beef 's back on their comment on seeing games as art. It's incredibly short-sighted to suggest they shouldn't be a mod just because they don't see it as an artform. As if having passion and genuine interest isn't enough L M A O.
