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I don't disagree but owning games isn't a solution to this problem. I've had gameboy batteries die and wipe the cart, I've had saves corrupted, it just happens.

• bakugo 4y ago
  We're not in the age of carts with batteries anymore, though. That was a technical limitation that doesn't exist anymore, and it's in no way comparable to this. If you own and control the game in such a way that you can access its saves and copy them elsewhere (which applies to almost every PC game that isn't live service garbage), you can pretty much ensure that losing them is impossible. This is basically a case of taking a solved problem and un-solving it. And keep in mind that when people say "owning a game" in this context it doesn't necessarily mean having the game in its original (physical) format, if you have a ROM of a gameboy game on your PC and play it via an emulator, in some ways you "own" the game more than if you had it as a physical copy because you can ensure the permanent preservation of both the game and its saves, unlike with the physical version.