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by 93po 902 days ago
I ran a website where people uploaded game save files along with an screenshot of their game world for a few years. It had maybe 10k+ submissions and was a mildly popular game. I took it offline years ago though. Is this something worth archiving?
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Random on-disk game saves is how some MMO server projects have been revived by communities. It could also help someone re-implement the game engine having various copies of a game save. You would be surprised how useful archiving game files can be for someone who really wants to re-build a legacy game.
We don't really know what the future might find interesting so saving as much as possible seems like a good thing to do.
Sure, why not, could be interesting
Yes, please consider doing so.
100% yes!