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On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:35:17 GMT, i own a yacht <me@privacy.net>
wrote:
>SpammersDie <xx@xx.xx> wrote:
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>> Which still means that once you get it to run, it won't stop working the
>> next day because some computer out there that you have no control over is
>> down or just decides it doesn't want to let you play anymore.
>
>that's the point, innit. when those other companies went under, and
>their ancient games no longer worked out of the box, the gamers had to
>find ways to get them going again. there's absolutely no reason
>whatsoever the same wouldn't happen in the unlikely event that valve
>went under leaving their steam catalogue of games unplayable. it's the
>exact same thing.
No it isn't. Emulation etc. are only needed when you try to run games
on foreign systems (foreign to the game). For example running Amiga
games on PC, or DOS games on WinXP.
Steam is an _additional_ hurdle to get the games to work. In the
situation there would be no support for the games anymore, Steam games
would not work even in the original system.
>if you're not going to penalize companies for disappearing and no longer
>supporting their games so that they work currently, i don't see how you
>can criticize steam based on some prediction that if valve ever went
>under you would no longer be able to play their games.
Read above. You can't demand a game to work on all future machines
irrespective to their hardware and OS, but you can demand a game to
continue working on the system the game was intended for.
>you may have
>other issues with steam, and that's fine, but we're talking about
>something specific here and it's something a lot of people bring up and
>it's stupid.
No, you have a simple comprehension problem here, that's all. You are
comparing apples to oranges. They are not the same situation.
>dopey john lewis will sit there and boast about his
>collection of old hardware he keeps around just to play games that no
>longer work under a modern OS and then gripe about the possibilities of
>half-life 2 no longer functioning in the future.
....even in the original machine. That's the difference.
>use your brain. offline
>play is already guaranteed based on software that came out before hl2
>was even on the shelves.
1. Cracks are illegal.
2. I guess that would be fine, if HL2 would be the only Steam game
around.