This is why I keep my install packages from torrents. I still have the install files for fitgirl repacks of Crusader Kings 3, Cult of the Lamb, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and Honey Select (It's not a game, but I use it a lot to help conceptualize as much of my character designs as I can. I also backed up all my CD games into iso images. I've got Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty, Diablo 1, Starcraft 1 and Broodwar, GTA vice city, Age of Empires 1, Dune 2000, UT99 and UT2004.<br><br>This isn't "old man shouts at cloud" this is "Actual gamer expresses his worry over the future of the hobby he loves and actually cares about" The "old man shouts at cloud" will only be used by those who ultimately aren't here for the hobby, they're here for the trend and to fit in with an ingroup, not to take legitimate part in it. I will always have my copies of Duke Nukem 3D and Manhattan Project, Sid Meier's alpha centauri, civilization 2 Test of Time, Simcity 2000, Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012, Command and Conquer 2/Yuri's Revenge, Master of Orion 2/3, multiple versions of Diablo 1 (including alpha versions because Yes, I like even the less developed versions of diablo 1, which is already not fully developed as it is, but it's still great), Diablo 2, The Core Keeper Playtest, Demonstar, multiple koonsoft games, every single one more or less, Warcraft 3 non-reforged, Hell, even UT3 will always be preserved on my machine or in my care. Every game installed on my computer is but a fraction of my total collection that I genuinely care about, if I had more space, I'd have more backed up for preservation's sake (and also my own use ofcourse).<br>There's also more games, like AI WAr 1, Creeper World 3, even Dead Space 3 if I one day get the ability to remove online-only crap from it, will be preserved.<br><br>The industry is trying to make it impossible to preserve the past because the past disrupts their money-making schemes, its hard to nickle and dime an audience who has an option of ignoring the present and remaining in the specific past when games of any specific genre were at their peak. I also have Factorio, Devil Daggers, Great Hero's Beard, Hollow Knight, Keplerth, Necesse, Nightmare Reaper, OneShot, Reassembly, Rise to Ruins, Rise of Nations, Empire Earth, Terraria, Unturned, WH40K Gladius - Relics of War.<br>The solution is for every gamer to maintain their own copy and if anyone wants to download a copy of it, to coordinate and use torrent software in conjunction with a VPN that supports p2p connections to distribute it. With History, preservation of the past is important, but with the gaming industry, it is especially important. Do NOT let them kill the past.<br><br>If the future of the gaming industry needs its past to die before it can be born, let it never be birthed, and if the present of the gaming industry can only live if the past dies, then let the present die. <br><br>Most original games in each series are better than everything after it, only those with true insight into the quality of any game know this as truth.