Sure it's a sour pill and back in board game days - nobody expected to purchase Monopoly and suddenly due changes later like an emissions zone introduction, find that they was unable to play that game anymore as their playing pieces all exceeded the emissions limits! Mad analogy I know, but does help curry perspective upon this. Which does raise the issue, if the OS the game was written for initially loses support and you don't see Microsoft offering refunds, why should games when you have had years of fun. Their EULA kinda covers them fully into not offering refunds in such circumstances as well. Not as far as I'm aware, or Vista(1) users and indeed, Windows 7 stalwarts will have an awakening moment in the next year or so. Now, can you argue for the idea that using SecuROM is comparable to adopting an industry standard for video transmission that has proven to be so popular that it's still widely in use now, some 50 years after its invention, without the foresight to instead adopt standards that didn't yet exist? It's not pirates who are suffering from this, which is what critics have been saying about SecuROM for the last decade.

That it's related to anti-piracy doesn't factor into it. Whoever decided to use a subscription based copy protection system must have known that they'd either have to pay for it for a very long time or eventually fuck legitimate buyers over. This, on the other hand, is first of all not a bug it's the copy protection working as designed. Nothing stops you from using them other than plain disinterest.Īs for disc rot, I truly believe that if you sell discs with copy protection so that the consumers can't reasonably back them up, they should be eligible for replacements when the discs eventually break after normal use. If you want to play N64, RCA monitors are still readily available, as are converters. That's like saying your outfit is broken because nobody wears bell-bottom jeans anymore.

The N64 isn't somehow broken because 'nobody uses RCA anymore'.

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