A big massive "fuck you guys" to that. I don't care if it's piracy or violates EULAs or ToSs or it technically illegal, I'm happy that there are people out there that do work on preserving those things. Even the shittiest game should be preserved. I feel the same about music and movies and books. Especially in the age we are in now where we can digitise things. We have the power to preserve more information than ever before and should strive to do so. It's already tragic how many texts and films have been lost to time due to various reasons, why be actively against the preservation of something?



Even if it was just limited to something like MMOs or online only games, they should be preserved in some way. I'm not saying that every game is art or contributes to the human race but I am saying it's a terrible shame for something to just be gone and to only be able to read about it from other peoples experiences.



I'm just glad there are people (possibly pirates) out there that are helping to preserve games. From single player games that are no longer manufactured with the rights evaporated and the publisher long dead to old MMOs that some guy has rigged to run, however partially, on a private server. Like, just the other day I was thinking about FFXIV 1.0 and how it's gone. Then I googled for a private server and actually found a guy that is/was working on one. Not much was up (regarding battles, quests etc) but you could walk around and explore the world which was what I wanted at that point.