What with all the layoffs across the games industry to compensate for rampant budgetary overspending in publishing, the reality behind keeping retro games within a paid walled garden is about charging new money for old rope and controlling the market to force gamers to play new games.
The specific quote is that “there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes.”
This explains why people like Jim Ryan hate retro games. They think these older games would cannibalize sales from newer releases, which is uniquely stupid.
The audacity for these motherfuckers in executive positions to claim ownership of inaccessible media created by teams of workers who slaved out of love to produce these works, who did that work well before these executives got shuffled into this or that company, who failed to preserve access to the productive output of those workers who have no doubt long since been laid off or died of stress.
THESE GAMES ARENT THEIRS TO DICTATE TERMS OF ACCESS OVER. I DON’T CARE WHAT IP LAW SAYS. ITS ALL SP**KS (I meant it in the Stirner sense damnit) ANYWAY.