Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Plastic cases, discs, etc are expensive and degrade over time. If we do get a video game preservation law, make it digital.
Emulation and piracy should be legal for games older than a certain point, or if the parent company goes under. And online games should be required to make a offline mode patch before shutting down.
arakhis_@feddit.org 5 days ago
didnt even think about that… but how do university libraries for example then keep up their valuable - or even more interesting - their non valuable old inventory? Never thought that degration was THAT potent
pory@lemmy.world 4 days ago
CDs and DVDs are digital media. There is no degradation of the content when you convert a fragile physical disk into a dumped ISO, and the dumped ISO can be stored on an arbitrarily large number of devices. Stuff like physical books or analog media (vinyl records, for example) are worth caring about physical degradation for, but a “physical copy” of a PC software disc is just a more fragile way to store the exact same ones and zeroes that can be stored on actually resilient media.
arakhis_@feddit.org 2 days ago
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how u do a nice cover like that tho?
I mean even as a trained media designer: this is rather lot of work