So why should the Library of Congress exist? Why should the Internet Archive exist?
“They’re books, who gives a shit. Most things are lost over time.”
“They’re web pages, who gives a shit. Most things are lost over time.”
There’s value in record-keeping. People can analyze it on a technical perspective (like a literary analysis). People can enjoy old games (like reading a book from the 1500s). People can analyze trends in the industry. There are endless reasons why record-keeping could be useful, and you can never plan for all of them ahead of time.
Well I’m sorry you can’t fathom that there is potential future value in old games. I even said that we can’t know the future value of something like this, so the safest thing to do is to just preserve them as well as we can.
Do you disagree with all of the explicit examples of ways it can be valuable that I laid out? Or do you simply want to assert the games are “meaningless” and ignore every way in which value can still be derived, or could be derived in the future, from them?
I suspect you haven’t actually thought this through and are just being antagonistic for fun; that’s how it comes off, anyway.
So why should the Library of Congress exist? Why should the Internet Archive exist?
“They’re books, who gives a shit. Most things are lost over time.” “They’re web pages, who gives a shit. Most things are lost over time.”
There’s value in record-keeping. People can analyze it on a technical perspective (like a literary analysis). People can enjoy old games (like reading a book from the 1500s). People can analyze trends in the industry. There are endless reasons why record-keeping could be useful, and you can never plan for all of them ahead of time.
Oh yes, let’s worry about saving the intellectual capitol of paper boy, frogger, etc. It’s meaningless bs that’s why it doesn’t matter.
Well I’m sorry you can’t fathom that there is potential future value in old games. I even said that we can’t know the future value of something like this, so the safest thing to do is to just preserve them as well as we can.
Do you disagree with all of the explicit examples of ways it can be valuable that I laid out? Or do you simply want to assert the games are “meaningless” and ignore every way in which value can still be derived, or could be derived in the future, from them?
I suspect you haven’t actually thought this through and are just being antagonistic for fun; that’s how it comes off, anyway.
There are far more valuable stories than those being told in video games.
Even those examples have value. Knowing their history can do wonders for future gameplay design.
So if we have the means to archive them, why not do it?