This is where the argument that piracy is also preserving games stands up. Although, it begs the question why games developers do not properly archive their software.
I have an iso if they need it
it’s a trap!
Does that include the Transformers game from Platinum Games? I remember having so much fun with that.
Watch it get found by an employee in a personal backup and then later get fired (like what happened with Toy Story 2) or get into trouble for “inappropriate copying of company property” or something similiar
Wait, she was fired like over 20 years later. How are those events even connected?
Yeah. I mean credit where credit is due, but saving a project once doesn’t give you a lifetime get out of future screwups pass. It might give you leniency on the next few projects you worked on, but it’s been years at this point.
It should probably also be mentioned that she was laid off, not fired.
I mean, the woman who had the toy story 2 backup did get fired like 25 years later. That is a quarter of a century.
For the rest of the world that’s equal to 10 kg
She was also the producer for Lightyear, which imo was not a very good movie.
But thats not the reason she was fired though.
Should have asked for source. I still have war for cybertron on my steam account, recently noticed it has dissapeared of the store
Shouldn’t Steam still have copies of the files?
Unless there is a financial incentive to do so the costs to archive might be too high unfortunately, especially given the circumstances of the previous merger/acquisitions and licensing, the people responsible for the data were “right” to no longer bare the cost. It’s unlikely there is a physical hard drive of this stuff and even if it was then the hard drive could even have been repurposed or reclaimed. These are businesses at the end of the day and once the product ships, unless they own the IP there’s no reason to keep the data. Hell it could have even been in the contract to delete any Hasbro data after the license expired, and Hasbro never kept a copy themselves.
Culturally, and for the sake of a game library archive pirates are picking up the slack where elsewhere there are non-profit or government bodies responsible for archiving like the National Film Registry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry
It costs penny on the dollar to archive the final code base of these games.
Saying it’s fine is like saying a artist shouldn’t keep copies of their work on the wall because there’s no money it’s it.
Companies should have pride in their accomplishments. These companies only care about profitability, and care nothing about what they have done in the past unless it makes them more money. It’s why modern gaming feels soulless.
