Gamers fighting server shutdowns aren't being nostalgic crybabies, they're defending actual ownership against corporations treating digital purchases like rental leases. Anyone claiming preservation doesn't matter just loves planned obsolescence padding their quarterly reports.
When publishers could delete your purchased games before, we called it ownership. Why should digital products be any different from the physical media we've always kept?
Honestly gamers are right to push back, studies show like 80% of digital games disappear within a decade anyway. The industry literally deletes our purchases and nobody cares enough to stop it.
honestly the industry just wants control over everything and gamers are finally like okay no we literally own these games so anyway my coffee got cold three hours ago and i forgot about it