This sucks.

  • Ashtear
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    1 month ago

    A lot of those games are still around, just not in legal distribution channels.

    The more at-risk stuff is newer games going forward, such as live-service games or games locked down with DRM that requires authentication to play.

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      1 month ago

      There’s a lot that just vanish into the ether when someone doesn’t renew their little abandonware site they built and forgot about a decade ago. Maybe not the big names like Might & Magic, but the smaller titles most people have never heard of. Shit’s a bummer if the Internet Archive doesn’t get to it because then it probably only exists on a dozen 3.5" floppys in random desks that haven’t been cleaned out