[game_preservation] PVW final report has been issued

[Henry Lowood]

  Rowan,

I think games and virtual worlds are the tip of the iceberg for digital 
media.   As all our media (text, music, movies) most to server-based 
platforms with intermediate players and subscription services, we may 
start seeing similar problems across-the-board.   But I agree that games 
and virtual worlds are at the edge, which is why it is so interesting to 
work on how to preserve them.

WoW is going to be an especially interesting case soon, when the world 
is "replaced," so to speak, as part of Cataclysm.  Not a shutdown, as in 
many other cases, but not continuous either.  It will be interesting to 
see video captures from the same areas (but different times) that will 
no longer show the same surroundings.  Plus there are still likely to be 
private servers based on the old code and assets.

Henry

On 9/21/2010 3:46 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Rowan, plays and other performance arts might have something similar 

> if they're not ever recorded - and if the script is lost, then who 

> knows... They're not quite as interactive though!

>

> Also, good to hear there might be further news Henry :)

>

> Andrew

>

> On 21/09/2010 20:48, Rowan Kaiser wrote:

>> Thanks for this - I was actually just thinking and writing about it 

>> slightly lesser version of this for a piece on World of Warcraft, and 

>> how every time an expansion is released for an online game, 

>> everything else becomes obsolete - and it's far worse when the game 

>> simply shuts down. I really can't think of any other form of media 

>> where this is the case.

>>

>> Rowan

>>

>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu 

>> <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>>

>>      All,

>>

>>     We just completed the final project report for Preserving Virtual

>>     Worlds I.  You can find the report here:

>>

>>     https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/17097

>>

>>     A number of you have asked about our findings; many thanks for

>>     your patience while we went through the drill of completing the

>>     report.

>>

>>     Henry

>>

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