User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-24894325-20180907002807/@comment-6032121-20181006192757

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-24894325-20180907002807/@comment-6032121-20181006192757 That's a worthy point, but if I may offer my rustic wisdom from the Disney Comics Wiki, we've had similar conundrums and the situation is simple: archive the games ourselves, now. Someone trustworthy on the Wiki records an entire playthrough and keeps it safe and sound on their own hard drive or a cloud.

If I may, you bring up that this sort of Orwellian-retconning happens to televised Doctor Who sometime. Surely no one's going to go arguing that Last of the Time Lords is made invalid by that retroactive edit? And what's more, there's an even more direct parallel of televised Doctor Who for clearly-valid narrative that we don't have access to: lost episodes.

I may be wrong, but lost episodes are still theoretically valid, and worthy of coverage insofar as possible, no? Why should this not hold true for the 2018 Legacy stories, regardless of whether they are "taken down" and replaced with altered versions in the future? If they do upgrade the current static versions into branching narratives, would the result not be that there was once a valid narrative, it's been "lost", and where it once stood there is a non-valid video game "adaptation" of the original?