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The new habit of remastering and re-releasing old games might affect that too. Civ 2 was 1996 and dropped off, but Age of Empires 2 is 1999 and just got a remaster. Being able to trivially pirate what's functionally the same game might be a problem.
Especially when some of those remasters go badly: Warcraft 3, for example, I think there are a number of people who would rather have the fresh-off-a-disc-install version of that.
I also wonder if, as the rate of graphics improvements drops off, the old games might become more valuable relative to their successors. Morrowind and Oblivion in their original forms are visually rough, but Skyrim is a 15-year-old game that is still totally fine visually. ES6 will look better, but probably not that much better, and if there are design, story, or mod opennness issues, it's much more likely that people would go back to Skyrim than that they'd go back to Morrowind in the Skyrim era.
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