21st June 2017, 2:48 PM
I don't know how movies do it, but limited-time rights are very much a thing for film as well, that's why stuff is constantly coming and going from Netflix, yes? They often only have the rights to something for a period of time, and once that's over it vanishes. But with movies or TV shows there are often other ways to see something, but with some games that is not the case, at least not legally... like, Alan Wake had a physical release so you can still play that, but there are a lot of other games which are not so lucky. The ephemeral nature of so many things on the internet is kind of awful, things need to be preserved for the future! Of course you cannot re-create the feeling of, say, being in some old online game back when it actually had users, but that many such games now can't be played at all is so much worse...