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by jpgvm 3340 days ago
Removing from circulation permanently is basically the same as destruction for the purposes of archival.
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scrollaway 3340 days ago
I highly doubt it's going to be removed from circulation forever. My guess is it'll be archived internally, the disc itself will end up in their campus museum, and at some point legal will sign off on releasing it to the public.

SC1 is coming up on its 20th anniversary next year, who knows what they'll do for the occasion.

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acuozzo 3339 days ago
> I highly doubt it's going to be removed from circulation forever.

Agreed, but sometimes…

Shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire

Happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_MGM_vault_fire

Preservation requires distribution.

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scrollaway 3339 days ago
Of course, and thankfully I know for a fact Blizzard has redundant backups of all their source control :)

The disc would die in a fire certainly, but so would it if it were at the Archive.

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jrimbault 3340 days ago
More likely imo, someone will be charged with archiving it inside Blizzard and on their internal repos.
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jpgvm 3340 days ago
Blizzard already has the source code, in fact it's actively being extended as part of a HD remaster right now.

I have no doubt they are very happy to have the original copy back, it probably means quite a lot of the original developers and I would never dream of keeping it from them had it been up to me.

I would definitely hope they keep the hard copy somewhere safe but history hasn't been kind to game source code.

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