Étude de l’impact des collectionneurs sur la préservation et la conservation du jeu vidéo
This thesis proposes an incursion into the world of video games and the struggle against its unavoidable deterioration. It aims to determine the extent of this coming challenge and recommends possible ways to assure the lasting qualities of video games. The final objective resides within the proposition that communities of collectors can influence the preservation of the medium and try to determine if this influence is positive or negative. The study first addresses classic collecting to better understand what makes a collector and what motivates its behaviour. Afterward, we explore the problematic of video game preservation, looking at the coming difficulties while exploring possible solutions to counter the damages to the video game heritage. Finally, the thesis links these two themes while defining the video game collector with all of their idiosyncrasies and questioning its outlook toward the preservation of the medium. With the help of a questionnaire distributed into these communities, we then try to answer our guiding question looking at the impacts of collectors on the preservation of the video game medium.
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