Ongoing RAM price crisis cited as one of the reasons "game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down this month

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• calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Rock Paper Shotgun is embarrassingly misrepresenting Myrient’s original posting. As is to be expected, I guess, since Rock Paper Shotgun is using Kotaku as a source.

  The reasons in the original posting were in order: Increasing traffic costs, download managers, then increasing hardware upgrade costs on top.

  Here is what the original posting says, in order:

  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.

  This is obviously the main issue! $6,000 out of pocket is clearly unsustainable.

  The rest pales in comparison:

  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.

  Then it talks about hardware prices.

  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.

  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.

  I added emphasis. Note that it says “aforementioned existing monthly deficit,” $6000 a month.

  Kotaku turned that into “AI-Fueled RAM Crisis Forces Retro Game Preservation Site To Permanently Close”

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  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    one of the reasons is not wrong

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