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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

the nature of the technical challenges

I'm big into the retro and preservationist movements, and while I'm certainly not capable of providing a good answer as to how you could implement the features they have, it makes it where the game is, effectively, dead and not salvageable as soon as Microsoft decides to pull the plug.

Sure, you could maybe do a reimplementation of it on your own and host all the data and such, but realistically it's a cool thing that'll eventually vanish from usability.

(I also don't expect most people to care, but it's still a case where it's built in a way you really can't preserve it as it is right now.)