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Game preservation rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You wouldn't pirate a game you already paid for to be able to play it again since the company stopped supporting it and no longer sells it

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Many years back , a friend was a manager of a game shop. They let me bring in badly scarred discs of movies and PS1/2 games, pay a very small fee (I want to say like $1/disc?) to get a brand new copy of the disc as replacement. Was a service that was available to resell shops apparently, though she mentioned that it also has a subscription aspect that likely placed it well out of reach of mortals.

I'd even be fine with mildly increased cost on something like that for regular consumers, but alas no....