This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.
This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.
My proposal is for a mandated label on software and hardware to indicate that it will stop working when some online service goes offline.
Ironically Nintendo sort of did that on physical boxes for their consoles that was actually just a download key in a cartridge