This reminds me of the obvious: that we will probably never be able to play the advanced games being produced today in 20 years time (or even sooner than that).

This reminds me of the obvious: that we will probably never be able to play the advanced games being produced today in 20 years time (or even sooner than that). DRM and reliance on closed source server infrastructure will make it impossible. Decades of digital cultural heritage will be lost if we don't do something drastic. What if game developers, Internet Archive and other forces created sort of a consortium (a bit like W3C) and created methods for sharing these infrastructures when development is stalling, servers closing and companies going bankrupt? In the best of worlds this future would be in the minds of the programmers when building the games.