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This is where the argument that piracy is also preserving games stands up. Although, it begs the question why games developers do not properly archive their software.

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[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

As much as there's an Activision fuckup here, there's also a Hasbro fuckup. When you do a deal like this with a publisher, part of that agreement should include provisions for the source code - either directly sending it or if Activision didn't want to share its proprietary code, indirectly via an Escrow service.