Deery said. "AFAIK no one who actually helped publish these Adult Swim games works there anymore, so I figure they thought it just wasn't worth their time from a business perspective to maintain 'legacy' products."
What this tells us it's very much company policy now that you do not own the video games you pay for, they can take it down for any time and for any reason.
Adobe just made it so their shitty software would quit working if you stopped paying them.
Apple made it so you no longer own the hardware that you buy from them (without jailbreak exploits, which are totes illegal, but also Apple doesn't have any of those because their software is and always has been invulnerable to security breaches).
think sony did it first, though not in this particular way... think they slipped a clause into the EULA for the PS3 (4?) that they retain rights to the physical hardware or some such.
Not really sure if it would hold up in court, but yeah...
No kidding. I'm about to dip my toes into games on Linux just because I'm sick of how much more and more Windows has essentially become a live-service game.
I wish Valve made a desktop version of their SteamOS, I find it to be way more intuitive than Windows; I also love the way you can update software/drivers just by typing it into the search bar and automatically being able to download the app/driver from the search bar. It blew my mind that Linux had that kind of functionality.
Plus, with majority of worthwhile games running on SteamOS, I have no need for Windows on a pure gaming rig. The problem is that SteamOS doesn't play nice with Nvidia drivers -- so until they get that sorted, it makes Linux a bit more cumbersome to use for certain games.
if you're gonna get into linux, start with Fedora or Ubuntu, they're basically the dominant distros, so the community support is going to be bigger.
Ubuntu is a bit bigger and more user-friendly, Fedora is more bleeding-edge (which makes sense since it's effectively where RedHat beta-tests all the features they want to add to RHEL )
The worse part with the live update bollocks is it often breaks your PC even if you say no. I've had problems simply running software sometimes, checked my updates and restarted then it all works completely fine.
The question I have is yes, but for how long? If people keep downloading games for nostalgia that they already own and don't buy any of the newer titles you can bet your arse the companies are going to sneakily disable them off your library entirely. It's also true that people aren't really buying modern titles anymore even the normies because of the woke crap and the average AAA title isn't worth pirating.
If I remember correctly, I think Ubisoft did this awhile back with Anno or something. They simply took it off entirely then of course what's going to happen is they'll force people to buy it again with some kind of shitty 'remastered' version that's 50gb+ at a minimum because all they did was put in some hires textures and call it a day.
I buy on GOG where I can and actually archive the offline installers of everything I buy. Seems crazy, but I've got old games on freaking CD-ROM that I have gone back and enjoyed, so it's not ridiculous to think in a decade I'll want some game that you can't get anymore.
There's piracy too, so things will always be around, but it's easier to keep things I have already.
What this tells us it's very much company policy now that you do not own the video games you pay for, they can take it down for any time and for any reason.
You can thank Apple for that practice by the way. They were the first to come up with the idea that you're just renting your property from them.
I thought it was those pricks at Adobe with their subscription software.
Adobe just made it so their shitty software would quit working if you stopped paying them.
Apple made it so you no longer own the hardware that you buy from them (without jailbreak exploits, which are totes illegal, but also Apple doesn't have any of those because their software is and always has been invulnerable to security breaches).
think sony did it first, though not in this particular way... think they slipped a clause into the EULA for the PS3 (4?) that they retain rights to the physical hardware or some such.
Not really sure if it would hold up in court, but yeah...
Would you like to update Windows?
-yes
-yes but later
-no but actually yes
No kidding. I'm about to dip my toes into games on Linux just because I'm sick of how much more and more Windows has essentially become a live-service game.
I wish Valve made a desktop version of their SteamOS, I find it to be way more intuitive than Windows; I also love the way you can update software/drivers just by typing it into the search bar and automatically being able to download the app/driver from the search bar. It blew my mind that Linux had that kind of functionality.
Plus, with majority of worthwhile games running on SteamOS, I have no need for Windows on a pure gaming rig. The problem is that SteamOS doesn't play nice with Nvidia drivers -- so until they get that sorted, it makes Linux a bit more cumbersome to use for certain games.
if you're gonna get into linux, start with Fedora or Ubuntu, they're basically the dominant distros, so the community support is going to be bigger.
Ubuntu is a bit bigger and more user-friendly, Fedora is more bleeding-edge (which makes sense since it's effectively where RedHat beta-tests all the features they want to add to RHEL )
The worse part with the live update bollocks is it often breaks your PC even if you say no. I've had problems simply running software sometimes, checked my updates and restarted then it all works completely fine.
If purchase doesn’t equal ownership then piracy doesn’t equal theft.
When I got a new computer, I was still able to download the NBA 2K16 I'd bought on Steam years prior and had since been delisted.
If you bought it before, you can get it again.
Which is good in this case, as that was the last truly great 2K.
The question I have is yes, but for how long? If people keep downloading games for nostalgia that they already own and don't buy any of the newer titles you can bet your arse the companies are going to sneakily disable them off your library entirely. It's also true that people aren't really buying modern titles anymore even the normies because of the woke crap and the average AAA title isn't worth pirating.
If I remember correctly, I think Ubisoft did this awhile back with Anno or something. They simply took it off entirely then of course what's going to happen is they'll force people to buy it again with some kind of shitty 'remastered' version that's 50gb+ at a minimum because all they did was put in some hires textures and call it a day.
I buy on GOG where I can and actually archive the offline installers of everything I buy. Seems crazy, but I've got old games on freaking CD-ROM that I have gone back and enjoyed, so it's not ridiculous to think in a decade I'll want some game that you can't get anymore.
There's piracy too, so things will always be around, but it's easier to keep things I have already.