Abandonware won't die but it will change.
Games we now perceive as 'slightly aged' like games from 1999 and such will become the abandonware of the future (well you can already find games from 1999 in the old-games heap in shops, but in the future these games will be reffered to as abandonware)
The thing is that a lot of games will become an in-house production since EA is steadily taking over the market. Soon most games will be made and published by EA.
Thus the chance of a game being truly abandoned will become much smaller.
I think rather than people looking back at the original unreal people will look back at games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and such.
But abandonware (better said "old games" in this case) will not die as long as time continues to progress.
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