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- This includes software exclusive to New Nintendo 3DS
Then what do we do with these games? How do we discourage live service games?
Are you boycotting them?
Why would I boycott them? I’m not inherently against LS games. I’m saying more effort needs to go into preserving them.
This is like saying we should be against streaming shows because they’re not released physically and can’t be backed up off physical media. The answer is obviously “make a way to preserve them.”
The only reason we aren’t having this exact same debate with movies and shows is because pirates already solved the problem.
More effort by whom? And how do we incentivize it?
The incentive is because we care about media and culture. What do you mean “how do we incentivize it”? it’s inherently valuable unless you don’t value art and culture.
Do you mean financially? We have tons of things that we preserve and do that aren’t profit driven if that’s the case. But I won’t go too far down that road in case that is not what you mean.
You didn’t answer my first question, and misunderstood the second.
Who do you expect to do the preserving? And how will you get them to do it?
Universities, hobbyists, studios themselves. Lots of interested parties who would do it because they want to and because we value art and culture. I don’t understand what is so complicated here. If you are doing some big wind up to an actual point I’d advise you to get to it.
I can’t get to my point if you keep skirting around it.
How will you get profit-driven studios to care about preservation?
Oh my god dude. It doesn’t just have to be the studios doing it on their own dime. Fine whatever let’s fulfill your narrow ridiculous requirements.
There are ways they can enable it that are easily marketable and good for their brand as well if you are so myopic in your view that you MUST see the profit motive or whatever. It’s a branding opportunity. It’s PR. There you go.
Well, you’re here seemingly not realizing why studios don’t give a shit about preservation. As we can observe in the real world, the branding opportunities and PR are not worth it to them 99% of the time.