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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Other media should. But getting it to happen on games is a good first step considering games are the MOST profitable form of media.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They're also the most complicated, and the production budgets, the resources available for archival, are often higher on blockbuster movies, as well as the barrier to entry being lower, for them to participate in archival, there's no such thing as spaghetti code in a movie

    Like, why games first, unless you're specifically trying to tamp down their profitability as compared to other forms of media? I'm suspicious that this is the kind of shit the MPAA would pull because they're getting outcompeted.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Because movies and series don't need it as much. Because piracy is a thing. You can watch any series that was pulled from air even if there's no DVD because you can download it. Even if you download some games, you can't play them because they're online only. See the crew as a prime example, as others have said.

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