Well, guess we are going to get our past games back. Now, how will this change things like speedrunning, piracy and rare copies - I haven’t a clue yet I figure drastically things will change. If the internet at one point was for piracy pre-GG and now anti-piracy post-GG, then now asks the questions whether increasing legal acquirings of game shall make the internet despise it more than an anti-piracy ad could’ve ever done. For speedrunning and rare copies, speedrunning definitely can now expand and get more of the community involved since they can easily replace their PS units without worry. More-so, the little enclave of rare copies for PS games should collapse whence the remaining 20 are announced and they cannot price gouge anymore. But I’ve seen weirder happen.
I saw many weird things today alone (Telltale is basically dead.) But yeah I think that piracy will get less and less in the future... But we're talking about two different markets here.
People who can buy but choose to pirate will never buy any game. People who can't buy but pirate will buy the games when they have money.
People whose livelihood depends on reselling old games hard copies better stay alert, because at this time you never know what will happen.
I imagine that PS Classic will be a good system, but most of corporation are money hungry creatures that will try to minimize the cost (give us bad games, features) and maximize the profit (sell those more than their virtual alternatives are available online.)
Still happy that we have Tekken 3, one of the games I'll be happy to play again, and again and....
and they won’t stop coming and they won’t stop coming and won’t stop coming.