[johnnyanmac]

>When you stop thinking about games as just entertainment but also as an art form you realize that a lot of art has already been lost to time.

I do think games are art. I don't think most of society thinks of games or even most media as art. So that's already one social hurdle to jump.

There will be a few big artifacts, but most people won't care about preserving every single piece of media in existence.

>it is important to me to preserve them for future times considering I still play a lot of older games and even some games from before I was born.

No point in preserving servers with no on it. I still have PS1 discs in my room, but those are all single player experiences that don't depend on others to derive enjoyment from.

[LightHugger]

The game mechanics implemented on a server binary are an art in themselves, you know.

In the future if we allow it, people will roam from old game to old game on private servers to experience each one. This can easily be planned out so that there is enough players in each event to give the game life.