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What procedures do you take to save and archive your games? (slrpnk.net)
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For example; GOG games - what happens if they were to shutdown their busieness. How would you archive these games if you had to?

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[–] icecreamtaco 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nothing, maintaining a library like that would be too much work. 95% of the time I don't want to play a game more than once and if my chosen store closes I can ethically pirate it. Or maybe the game will be buyable as a $5 retro game 20 years from now.

I have 100+ digital only games on Switch too. That's going to shut down at some point but in the future you'll be able to download NS1.zip in ten minutes and it'll have the entire library. So why worry about it now? Once the switch console batteries all start degrading PC emulation will be the default anyway.