Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Demon’s Souls is a perfect example of why preserving online games is so important


Recently, we reported on the conflict between game publishers and game preservationists — specifically, their disagreement over whether online games should be preserved in their original state. When speaking about the kinds of online games historians might want to keep, we used MMORPGS as an example. But there are multiple kinds of online interactions, even in single player games — and some of those are starting to die off as well. As an example, the servers for From Software’s Demon’s Souls shut down today, after 8 years of being online. Now players won’t be able to use any of the game’s…

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