For most people it's because nothing bad has happened to them personally... YET. They just get comfortable with what they are already doing and everything is fine in their life until one day it isn't.
I stopped preordering awhile ago but honestly I just stopped buying games in general. I already have enough games to last me a lifetime and there is just so much trash getting released that I skip it all together.
I just use my desktop computer. I've got OSM on my main monitor and Google Maps on the other for comparing. Someone mentioned an app called StreetComplete which lets you fill in data on the map but turns it into a game. I haven't used it much yet though
The most secure thing to do would be to host your own server. You can do this with Bitwarden. Remember though that if you lose your server, you lose your passwords. You can also just use Bitwarden and their cloud service. It's free and open source.
What they mean is the only way to play these games is emulation instead of being able to purchase them from the company that owns the rights. That's bad because many people either do no know about emulation, do not know how to emulate, don't want to figure out how to emulate, don't want to involve themselves in legal gray areas (downloading ROMs is illegal afterall) etc... Basically, the companies that have the rights to these games are just squatting on them and not ever rereleasing them again. Those people above can never or will never experience those games. Some people want to just pay the company and play an old game that they heard about so they can't. As far as preservation goes, the archivists have that covered but there just isn't a solution for the average Joe to play older games that are no longer sold physically or digitally.
More like "You'll spend your money when we tell you to"