game preservation (titles only, compact bullet list) By Bree Royce - August 27, 2020 12:57 PM 0 • Stop Killing Games Initiative stumps for signatures to pressure EU governments • Stop Killing Games opens worldwide petitions and shares a UK government response in update video • It’s 2024 and the ESA is still fighting game preservation, forecasting a depraved ‘online arcade’ • ‘If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing,’ say gamers reviewbombing the remaining The Crew games • Ubisoft pulls The Crew 1 from player libraries, encourages them to ‘check the store to pursue your adventures’ • Vague Patch Notes: Game preservation is way more complicated than it seems • Stop Killing Games is a modern games preservation initiative prompted by The Crew’s cynical sunset • The Soapbox: The day my son lost his first online video game to a sunset • Choose My Adventure: What Final Fantasy XI taught me about games preservation and the ‘good old days’ • The Soapbox: Are modern games more disposable than ever? • Microsoft’s Phil Spencer advocates for game preservation through emulators • Game preservation champion The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment has closed its doors • Lawful Neutral: What DMCA exemption victories really mean for MMO preservation • Vague Patch Notes: The complexity of classic preservation for MMOs • The Video Game Museum offers a home to Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, and WildStar • US Library of Congress grants DMCA exception for preserving online games • Raph Koster on the ESA’s DMCA battle: ‘Preservation matters’ • The ESA is fighting proposed DMCA exemptions that would preserve sunsetted MMORPGs because of course it is • The US government is considering DMCA exceptions for archived online games after all
• ‘If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing,’ say gamers reviewbombing the remaining The Crew games
• Ubisoft pulls The Crew 1 from player libraries, encourages them to ‘check the store to pursue your adventures’
• Choose My Adventure: What Final Fantasy XI taught me about games preservation and the ‘good old days’
• The ESA is fighting proposed DMCA exemptions that would preserve sunsetted MMORPGs because of course it is