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submitted 1 year ago by kolorafa@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

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[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

Game preservation is dying because of DRM. You want games you can still play in 10 years, pirate that sht and donate to those keeping up the good art of game cracking. It's either that or buying remakes a decade later that are just thinly reskinned. I can live with sht like denuvo since newer games just remove it after a year and then I can buy it. Storefronts like uplay or egs that are dependent on a malignant profit only entity are at best mid-term rentals and at worst spyware you have to pay for the privilege to use.

[-] twoface_99@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Furthermore, if you don't want to pirate: Buy your games on GoG. They are DRM free and you don't need the launcher to play (GoG Galaxy is amazing though btw)

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