Game publishers ‘won’t support libraries for preserving online games’.
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
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Because it hurts their bottom line as they currently sell an inferior product.
Put it this way, would you rather play Battlefield 2042 or be able to play Bad Company 2 without worrying about hacked servers AND support a library to keep running?
It'd be HUGELY popular and provide a boost to any library participating, which is why they don't want it as it shows how lacking they are currently.
I want to play battlefield 1942 all day long. Then l want to fire up battlefield vietnam and talk to my buddies from 2010.
Nintendo has been doing this for (console) generations with their shitty e-stores continually selling the same shit ported to a new system with somehow worse controls or upscaling that doesn't look right.
Then a few years later they shut it down because 'oh well the servers cost too much' and do it all over again.
Meanwhile the rest of us are over here just downloading ROMs of all those old games because it's now impossible to actually purchase the product I'm after instead of some butchered remake that then got ported three times over and is now a hideous mockery of the original.
I'm looking at you, every Squaresoft game from the SNES era...