It's not just limited to gaming imo. I'd argue that it's not just for historical reasons that office and productivity software should be preserved and archived, but too should it be preserved for future folks to be able to study source code of the past to understand and innovate for better manners of software engineering.,(reply>), Fun thought I had near the end of the video: if server logs were archived and accessible... man, the "first hand" accounts of how people gamed in the past will provide future historians a trove of data to analyze.