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Originally Posted by Sebatianos

So the quantity will fall and hopefully the quality will raise, but we have to realise that these games are getting older and older that that what we (this generation) might see as a walk down the memory lane will be something complete alien to younger users (they will look on games like The Sims as a trip down the memory lane).

Well, this is normal since the time always goes on and new things take the place of older ones.
But even so, there would be still an important role left for the abandonware site(s) - to hold, among The Sims, really old games available to anyone who's interested. While official sites already would have long ago dropped them in favour of games that are new today, such games still could be found on Abandonware sites.

You don't find now old Commodore 64 titles on some official sites of the company that created them, do you? But there're fan sites that offer them for download along with all the additional stuff like reviews. For the same reason abandonware sites will still remain in their important role.
Sure, less people would be visiting them, that's inevitable, but there're always people who're interested in history. And less doesn't necessarily mean worse. Abandonia had once tighter community before it became so popular as now and many new people began to join.