Industry targets Abandonware and old games!

[Sajadi]

I hate that greedy lobbies!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/videogame-publishers-no-preserving-abandoned-games-even-museums-and-archives

Industry targets old Games and Abandonware!

http://www.theesa.com/ - make sure you give them "appropriate" feedback and share that!

[back2themoon]

Anyone who ignores their own history can be safely labelled as an idiot, at best. But I guess it's all about money, which is even worse.

[lyceus]

The trouble with this is that these companies are prey of corporate buyouts. If you see only Capcom and Konami are almost left without scratches since the "old'arcade 80s time". Then every other company out there had passed for a merge, buy out, bankrupt, etc.

The new owners only want to milk their new shiny acquired products and don't care for more. Efforts like MAME are unique, since they had even help game companies for recover their own games; like happened with TAITO for their Taito Aracde museum collections (FYI, Taito is now part of Square Enix).

So apart of MAME there is none other real effort for keep the story alive or keep the games, except for some "Quijotes" that hoard old computers and consoles. Like as example, Bo Zimmerman that is "Mr. Commodore" for justice, since he had collected more Commodore stuff that even Commodore didn't know to have made for itself!

[Moonchild]

Also, one clear edge I think plays into this is "if people play old/abandoned games, they don't play current ones, meaning we lose potential sales" even if it's 0.1% where this applies, they want to pursue it because that is how fickle greed has become.