>>715866659
nobody who replied is getting it right, the actual fix is:
>gatekeeping isn't possible for fans/consumers/users
gatekeeping is only possible for the people who are actually in control of the castle
the people who just live in the town can throw tomatoes at the people who come in but if the king's guards arrest the throwers then it won't accomplish anything
ultimately it's the king and his guards who control the gate, not the townsfolk

I think all video games should be preserved for historical value. It may seem like modern, cash-grab slop to us now but give it 200 years and it all has value as data for the ways people lived in the 21st century.
This is going to end up being a problem with basically all media that isn't incredibly popular. Sure, stuff like CoD and the Sopranos is going to be preserved for a really, really long time, but our current entertainment isn't just a few shows and video games, it's hundreds of them.
I don't think people realize just how much is lost to time. There's so much we don't know about our ancestors because things weren't written down, were left to rot and/or were simply considered disposable or too common to bother preserving. It isn't hard to keep software around and there's no excuse for just deleting it.

>>714188039
I doubt anything will happen even if you gather enough signatures, you guys like bringing up how the EU passed some stuff about privacy protection before but at the end of the day all it did was make websites have a pop up that says "do you agree for the sake to gather your private info?" then you click "agree" and nothing really changed, if the EU even passes some legislation regarding games (doubtful) all it will achieve is games having a popup that says "do you agree that once the game shuts down all of your shit is one" and then you click "agree" and go on to play the game