Retro game archive with 390 TB worth of data is shutting down in March

Another day, another victim of skyrocketing RAM and storage prices. Myrient, a well-known preservation project for retro video games with a massive 390 TB library, will be calling it quits later next month.

Uploads to the service have already been stopped, with its founder, Alexey, urging users to download whatever content they please while the servers stay online. Myrient, since its inception, had always run as an ad-free service sustaining exclusively on donations made by its patrons, and did not feature any download limits either.

In recent times, however, Alexey claims that the altruistic policies of Myrient have been abused by for-profit entities who have created specialized download managers to abuse the service's lack of download limits. Further, Alexey states that costs of operating such a storage-intensive operation have risen greatly, and donations have failed to keep pace despite an increase in traffic.

This is a perfectly understandable reason, considering that the price of storage, and other crucial hardware have increased by unfathomable amounts in the last few quarters. The skyrocketing demands put forth by data centers have hammered supply chains, and the outlook for the future seems to be quite bleak given recent reports.

Alexey did mention that there are "many other smaller reasons", but chose not to reveal them.