Good luck finding people to play abandonware with you.

Also other than abandonware, there is a large market of indie devs

It is a concerted effort the older you get to continue to find new music. Most people after a certain age stop organically discovering new music and having a new favorite song. Once you stop finding the new music without the effort, a lot of people seem to slip into the trap of believing that the best songs came out when they were younger and everything else is just not as good. But, I believe they simply stopped looking and became closed off to new experiences. All the new songs are going to be worse if you don't give new songs or genres the chance you used to give new music.

Video games I believe are similar. There are a massive amount of good video games from the past, but that does not mean all of the best or even your favorite one were already created in the past. Same as the "best" song did not come out or was discovered in your twenties.

Another poster also already made the point, but you will also miss out on community. I spent a lot of time on the Dreamcast playing Phantasy Star Online back when it was new. Playing that exact same game on my Dreamcast today is in no way the same experience it would be today.

I absolutely find it disgusting that there seems to be an end goal of trying to remove ownership of games. A lot needs to be done to ensure game preservation continues. But I also really disagree that this transition being forced on people by the greedy is unimportant because you can just play old games.

More so, pay per minute is also optional. You can still buy the full game and have it in your library. If you really are such a fan, then the economics don't make sense and you will never stream as opposed to buying the game. This is mostly to catch regular gamers who just might want to check it out.

But gamers are not so stupid they will pay per min and spend thousands of dollars on xbox streaming when you can buy the full game at ~$100.

Nobody is forcing you to stream it per minute. But the comments here make it seem like that's the only way to play.

There is an episode about implant subscription