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by tomysshadow 2885 days ago
Here's the thing. A lot of the games being saved here are games that the original publishers/developers no longer care about - that or the original creators don't even exist anymore. That throws a large portion of Flash games into the gray area of abandonware, although that's a different discussion entirely.

This is actually a place where I differ with BlueMaxima (BlueMaxima is Flashpoint's creator and the writer of the article linked here.) Personally, if I were running the project I would remove a game if the original creator asked, simply out of respect for them.

However, I think that most of the staff involved with Flashpoint would disagree with me here. It is more of a "for now, just go go go and we'll worry about organizing everything and dealing with the repercussions later." There's a lot of Flash games out there to say the least and Flash being discontinued in 2020 leaves us limited time if we hope to save as much as possible.