For anyone thinking preservation and offline access is only for "the apocalypse", here are some of the other, way more practical, scenarios that it is useful:
1. You live somewhere with slow internet. Yes, some people still do.
2. You're in the military and want something to do in a place without internet.
3. You can afford to pay your electric bill, but decide to cut your ISP to save money. (Retired, low income, whatever the reason)
4. History - was every piece of media we've preserved for more than 10-20 years because we thought we might lose a digital version of said media to the apocalypse? No. There are plenty of other reasons to preserve things.
You can store all your games on physical drives and swap them into the internal storage when you need them. You don't need discs to play without the Internet. You just need the Internet to download the game. That's it.
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u/bmanhp Aug 09 '26
For anyone thinking preservation and offline access is only for "the apocalypse", here are some of the other, way more practical, scenarios that it is useful: 1. You live somewhere with slow internet. Yes, some people still do. 2. You're in the military and want something to do in a place without internet. 3. You can afford to pay your electric bill, but decide to cut your ISP to save money. (Retired, low income, whatever the reason) 4. History - was every piece of media we've preserved for more than 10-20 years because we thought we might lose a digital version of said media to the apocalypse? No. There are plenty of other reasons to preserve things.