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What procedures do you take to save and archive your games?

For example; GOG games - what happens if they were to shutdown their busieness. How would you archive these games if you had to?

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  • I don't, because if that happens either others will have done a more thorough job (because it's something they care about - I have my own obsessive areas that I'm the one doing that stuff for), or if they haven't then I have much bigger problems to deal with (e.g. war in Europe).

  • Nothing, maintaining a library like that would be too much work. 95% of the time I don't want to play a game more than once and if my chosen store closes I can ethically pirate it. Or maybe the game will be buyable as a $5 retro game 20 years from now.

    I have 100+ digital only games on Switch too. That's going to shut down at some point but in the future you'll be able to download NS1.zip in ten minutes and it'll have the entire library. So why worry about it now? Once the switch console batteries all start degrading PC emulation will be the default anyway.

  • I mean realistically if a major store were to get shut down they would give you a heads up and a chance to download your games.

  • I don't really bother but I do have some related stuff like unofficial patches and fan remakes/mods of my favourite games.

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