The smart contract that performs these actions still exists and anyone can (and some people like me do) interact with it without touching the website UI / front

The smart contract that performs these actions still exists and anyone can (and some people like me do) interact with it without touching the website UI / front end. The pictures of kitties are easily recreated once you have all the secrets of the genome, which we do (well, there could be more secrets but we could recreate the ones we know about which is all we can/could care about). The legal aspect of that latter part is murky but the CK devs promise they are working to clarify despite the complexity of this new space. Yeah the game would lose 99.9% of its potential userbase without the front end, but if the remaining 0.1% wanted to build a new web interface we could and the game could go on. This may seem similar to spinning up a legacy WoW server, but the difference here is that we’d still have our own actual kitties and no be able to cheat the system so the game integrity remains in the blockchain version.