cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43693666
Not myrient! I literally don’t know of an alternative that’s this good. Myrient was relatively fast and felt pretty safe. Metric-fuck ton of games too.
390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives
Submitted 15 hours ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Superorbit@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Blaming it on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.
noname_no_worries@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
AI datacenters buying up the hardware is why their hosting costs increased. Worsening the problem.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 43 minutes ago
AI datacenters buying up the hardware is why their hosting costs increased. Worsening the problem significantly.
I’m sorry but this is bullshit. For basic storage you absolutely don’t need a lot of RAM or SSDs, older gen hard drives are extremely easy to find and very cheap. People have been hypnotized into believing they absolutey definitely need the latest gen of hardware, without realizing it’s useless, and it’s the only kind of hardware that knows shortages and high prices.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
What? How?
Like, fuck AI resource hogging, but the archive already existed on servers that are already built. It was already running on ram and drives that aren’t built into the specialist hardware required to run an AI data centre.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
From the announcement on the Discord:
Information about the closure of Myrient
Hello everyone,
I have decided to shut down Myrient on 31 March 2026. Until then, the site will continue to remain available in its current state. Please download any content you find important, as you have around one month to do so.
There are several reasons for the closure:
- Insufficient funding As traffic continued to increase last year, the amount of funding from donations remained the same. I have been paying more than $6000 out of pocket every month in order to cover the difference which is not sustainable.
- Paywalled download managers In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.
- Rising RAM, SSD, and HDD prices Since last September, RAM, SSD, and HDD prices have surged dramatically and continue to rise due to the ongoing extreme demand for AI datacenters. This has caused Myrient’s hosting expenses to go up as well. Necessary upgrades to the storage and caching infrastructure only exacerbated the problem. With a large number of servers and the aforementioned existing monthly deficit in excess of $6000 out of pocket, there is no way to pay for the increased hosting and hardware upgrade costs.
There are still many other smaller reasons, I could go on and on about them, but nobody would want to read it.
In short, I can no longer afford to run the site.
If you have any comments, you can send them to support@erista.me (I will read all of them and might respond to a few).
Thanks for using Myrient over the years.
detren@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
From the article:
Aside from that, RAM, SSD, and HDD prices have been steadily rising due to the AI infrastructure build-out, resulting in higher hosting expenses for Myrient as well. We’ve actually seen this with German data center giant Hetzner, which is hiking prices up to 37% starting April 1. The archiving site said it needed “necessary upgrades to the storage and caching infrastructure,” which it cannot afford due to memory chip and storage shortages.
The creator also complained about abusive users who were monetizing Myrient content. Not only did they bypass the donation messages and the site’s built-in download protections, but they also added a paywall that defeated the site’s policy against paywalls.
bilb@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Fuuuuuuuuck, I knew Myrient was too good to be long for this world.
redbrick@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Honestly , I didn’t even know about this site till today! So if enough donors hit the site to pick up at least $6K, will that site stay online? …cause I will definitely donate…no questions…just not all of $6K/month…that is crazy…
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Yeeeeaaahhhh this one hits hard
errer@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Out of curiosity, what games take up so much space? I’m assuming modern ones.
You can easily downloaded a torrent of all games before the CD era and it’ll fit nicely in a few TB.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 minutes ago
Shit, you could probably fit everything before the DVD era on a single drive.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
They have every available variant of every game, so there are anywhere between 2-10 copies of the same game for each console it was released on.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Plus all the original Xbox games I’ve seen there are raw disk dumps, they have to be converted to xiso and that shaves off several GB per disk when completed.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 hours ago
My PS2 archive is around 2,9TB compressed, so “modern” is relative. PS3/XboxOne is a multitude of that.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Holy fuck, this sucks.
turkalino@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Does anyone know of a way I could download the entire English N64 library? I don’t remember there being a bulk download option on Myrient
_Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub 1 hour ago
Jdownloader also very good with filtering options
SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’ve often had a lot of luck with finding things like this on archive.org
cdzero@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Look at their FAQ. If you’re on Linux wget on the folder works a treat.
RustySharp@programming.dev 10 hours ago
If you’re on windows, wget also works a treat. Mac too.
Denjin@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Bittorrent
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 minutes ago
I never used this, hadn’t even really heard of it.
But I use gazelle games for my needs. I’m surprised myriant didn’t have torrents for its collection.
That might be a quick an dirty way of archiving the whole site for people. This seems like a perfect use of distributed peer to peer storage and networking to reduce costs.