I’d imagine the bulk of this is speedruns. Those add up to a lot of hours worth of VODs, but they are absolutely worth keeping. As I’ve said in another comment above, speedrun.com is suddenly going to be a graveyard of dead links.
Why are they all worth keeping? Wouldn’t it be enough to keep something like the top 20 or top 100 in each category for every game? Should be easy to archive those with a month of time for each particular game’s community.
Well it’s not just the current records that need to be preserved, historical records matter too. And even non-top runs may still matter, for examples like the discovery of a new technique or glitch, or the first person to achieve it in a run.
If you’ve ever watched something like SummoningSalt’s world record progression documentaries, those are made possible by the fact that all of this footage is available for him to comb through. And we do need all of it, because who’s to say what could turn out to be important later that we’ll only realize is missing after it’s gone?
Want to bet it is largely a few idiots who took that to mean “highlight everything” who ruined that for everyone?
I’d imagine the bulk of this is speedruns. Those add up to a lot of hours worth of VODs, but they are absolutely worth keeping. As I’ve said in another comment above, speedrun.com is suddenly going to be a graveyard of dead links.
Why are they all worth keeping? Wouldn’t it be enough to keep something like the top 20 or top 100 in each category for every game? Should be easy to archive those with a month of time for each particular game’s community.
Well it’s not just the current records that need to be preserved, historical records matter too. And even non-top runs may still matter, for examples like the discovery of a new technique or glitch, or the first person to achieve it in a run.
If you’ve ever watched something like SummoningSalt’s world record progression documentaries, those are made possible by the fact that all of this footage is available for him to comb through. And we do need all of it, because who’s to say what could turn out to be important later that we’ll only realize is missing after it’s gone?