hm, well, today i learned! and i can correct my misunderstanding of this instance of video game preservation. thank you
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What was your misunderstanding?
sep 2, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
i had taken at face value the inference that piracy was responsible for helping SE to work on the FFT remaster
sep 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it really is to-may-to, to-mah-to.
sep 3, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
The article about the panel was about 1) accessing different versions 2) accessing fan resources. Neither of those things support the 'proof that piracy is necessary' statement, and in fact, that statement ignores the almost unprecedented and much more important 'accessing fan resources'
sep 3, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
By and large, the people responding to that thread, and that line of thought, are stating that pirating the original ROM for preservation purposes was what they meant. That, flatly, not only is factually incorrect but, as I pointed out, ignores the ACTUAL win for die hard fans of the game.
sep 3, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Ignoring the people who actually did the work to understand the games in favor of piracy supremacy is what that post did, and its replies continued. Those fans are the ones that preserved the game's functionality so well that Squenix used their docs to remake the game, and the panel credited.
sep 3, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
No one's ignoring anyone. This is a semantic argument you're making.
sep 4, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
i don't think it's a semantic argument. digital preservation via piracy is something that does not require understanding anything about the game or the code it's two different ways to archive and can be useful for different kinds of projects or goals
sep 4, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
we used many versions of our games, and fan information, to rebuild our game this proves piracy is essential but they credited the fans, and you literally ignored that nobody ignored anyone go away, thanks
sep 4, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
I'm arguing that both things are crediting the fans. You're acting as if piracy is a dirty word. That's why I said this is an argument of semantics.
sep 4, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
like, game preservation _cannot_ be left to the studios, nor can it fit inside of a stilted rigorous rights framework like some people would want us to believe, and so what people consider piracy is necessary but this particular read, for this specific game, is a fuckin' REACH
sep 2, 2025, 12:02 am • 9 0 • view