This isn't just a loss for people with nostalgia either. I'm someone who like to scour the internet for old and obscure games for fun, and I can tell you 9/10 times those games have some sort of value, at least in my eyes. Some cool mechanics that no one uses anymore, a level of world building you can't find anymore, and the thing I find most often is an attention to detail that most games don't care to have anymore. Whether it be a funny bit of dialog for something specific you did, or an animation for specific actions that no one nowadays would care enough to make (reactions to damage to a certain limb and things like that.) Maybe some gore that was just done well, where every enemy has a skeleton, or dynamic head destruction. Even if the game itself hasn't aged as well as others, most of the time it still has some kind of artistic value. Almost every game has something to offer, and if it isn't fun, it usually has something to inspire me to create. Anyone with a creative mind, and any game dev out there I encourage you to try out some old and crusty games. If you go in looking for it, you can find some amazing concepts and ideas that would be amazing with a bit more work and some modernization. My point is most games have some kind of value, and the path we are going down is depressing for me. Destroying a game entirely when it can still have something to offer is awful. There's already been a small handful of games I played that are now gone forever, and although they honestly weren't the best even those games had a fantastic art style and really nice assets. If nothing else it's an omen of things to come.