Remakes, Remasters, and the ethics of preservation (Gaming)

by EffortlessFury @, Friday, December 11, 2020, 08:52 (1232 days ago) @ Cody Miller


To your earlier comment about Star Wars, I do agree that destroying the original negatives sucks and sits on the border of what I'm comfortable with; it's a real tragedy. I don't think that analogy is fair when compared to digital works, however.


The original version of Destiny has been destroyed. Digital is not necessarily exempt.

Live games are, by definition, unpreservable. Preservation, as much as we as a society may wish it, isn't something we have a right to. We have a right to preserve the copies of something that we own, but if something is created that is guaranteed to degrade over time, preservation is impossible from the outset; I don't think any law will or should be enacted to force creatives to only create preservable works, either.


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