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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 3507134" data-attributes="member: 9053">Sometimes I just don't understand if someone is being serious about something, so I apologize in advance if you're really not serious about this. If you are, the only thing I can say is &quot;man WHAT?&quot;I have my old Dragon magazines from the early 80's (back to issue 9) all bagged up and stored away. I take a look at one of them every once and a while, and they're in perfectly fine condition. There are thousands of people like me. Go take a look at the auction from Gen Con if you don't believe me.Are you honestly telling me that you expect the digital content that WotC is making available to still be around 25 years from now? Seriously?At the same time, try and find some old TRS-80 computer games from the same time period. You can do it (what can I say, I loves me my old nostalgic games) but they are few and far between. Now try and find your old D&amp;D houserules from the same era that you typed into Wordstar. Again, there are people who still have those things, but they're few and far between. Where I work, I recently was involved with unarchiving some data from a VAX system that was used in the early 90s. Let me tell you that the cost of the optical disk reader and data recovery was almost $10000. So I know that you're excited about the new Digital Initiative (heck, I HOPE they do a good job with it too) but this idea that there is somehow some advantage for the consumer in keeping this content viable is just silly. Sure, it's expensive to store a paper product for a hundred years, but I seriously doubt that our electronic gaming data will live beyond 10 years to any large degree.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 3507134, member: 9053"] Sometimes I just don't understand if someone is being serious about something, so I apologize in advance if you're really not serious about this. If you are, the only thing I can say is "man WHAT?" I have my old Dragon magazines from the early 80's (back to issue 9) all bagged up and stored away. I take a look at one of them every once and a while, and they're in perfectly fine condition. There are thousands of people like me. Go take a look at the auction from Gen Con if you don't believe me. Are you honestly telling me that you expect the digital content that WotC is making available to still be around 25 years from now? Seriously? At the same time, try and find some old TRS-80 computer games from the same time period. You can do it (what can I say, I loves me my old nostalgic games) but they are few and far between. Now try and find your old D&D houserules from the same era that you typed into Wordstar. Again, there are people who still have those things, but they're few and far between. Where I work, I recently was involved with unarchiving some data from a VAX system that was used in the early 90s. Let me tell you that the cost of the optical disk reader and data recovery was almost $10000. So I know that you're excited about the new Digital Initiative (heck, I HOPE they do a good job with it too) but this idea that there is somehow some advantage for the consumer in keeping this content viable is just silly. Sure, it's expensive to store a paper product for a hundred years, but I seriously doubt that our electronic gaming data will live beyond [B]10 years[/B] to any large degree. [/QUOTE]

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