In today’s economy data itself is a very lucrative commodity so it is baffling to me that corporations wouldn’t eagerly keep tabs on the traffic to an old archive because it would gauge the marketability for resurrecting a new an improved variation on a theme. If something were to receive a spike in traffic, then that would be an invaluable data point. And that says nothing about the potential talent pool that would be available by simply overseeing the modding community, with a passion behind any given project, demonstrate real world skills. Mods receiving a big budget and an eventual retail release a major part of gaming history that everyone is familiar with at this point.