So my 7-year-old daughter loves point-and-click adventure games; we've been playing old MS-DOS LucasArts and Sierra titles together, and we're about to finish Legend of Kyrandia Book One. It's wonderful.

She's also obsessed with Minecraft and just learned about Minecraft: Story Mode. I didn't know what it was, and it was quite a rabbit hole for me to fall down.

So obviously, I'm very late to this, but Minecraft: Story Mode is a series of point-and-click titles from Telltale Games that came out in 2015 and disappeared in 2019. A Netflix "interactive" version of some content was available until 2022. Telltale shut down, the DRM servers are shut down, and now it's gone forever? There's no way to buy this for her?

I already champion preservation efforts for older games. And it's not like this is multiplayer and needs servers running. This is what we do with new art when it's sold digitally--we throw it in the garbage?

@jlendino fuck always-online DRM. also, fuck DRM.

not only are companies paying no attention to preservation, they're making it illegal.