• rektifier@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Even if they have the source, they may not have all the build tools anymore.

    Or they have the build tools but the wizard that set up the build system back in the day no longer works there.

    Or they have the build system archived and documented but it doesn’t run because some license expired, and the tool vender doesn’t sell that version anymore.

    In the near future, there will be another possibility - SaaS cloud tools that are impossible to preserve so they are forever lost.

    • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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      1 year ago

      Very true, and even if they could replace/remove libraries and dependencies that muck up the build process there are no guarantees that it’ll play the same. So many games rely on strange quirks to function the way they do that would be nigh impossible to replicate purposely.