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Game publishers ‘won’t support libraries for preserving online games’. (www.videogameschronicle.com)

posted 210 days ago by WittyUserName 210 days ago by WittyUserName +70 / -0

Game publishers ‘won’t support libraries for preserving online games’ | VGC

The Electronic Software Association has shot down the idea of supporting libraries in the preservation of defunct online games.

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– MargarineMongoose 6 points 210 days ago +6 / -0

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...

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