This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

  • Flax@feddit.uk
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    1 年前

    Games don’t get lossy compressed when sent. They aren’t films or photographs.

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      If you use most digital formats for media and compress them with something like .7z or Winrar, then it might take years or decades to noticeable degrade, but it is still a matter of when not if.

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        Holy crap. File compression is not the same thing as lossy media compression.

        File compression uses mathematical algorithms to create definable outcomes. Meaning it doesn’t matter how much you compress/uncompress a file, it will always be exactly the same.

        5 X 2 will always give you 10 and 10 ÷ 2 will always give you 5.