Well, capitalism. They still should make archive copies that run on physical media and give them to Frank Cifaldi
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Video chronicle of delisted (digital) games
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Well, capitalism. They still should make archive copies that run on physical media and give them to Frank Cifaldi
GekigangerV
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There was a Punisher game on the PS3 I always meant to get, but never got around to buying. It was taken down in 2011 without much fanfare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher:_No_Mercy
Maybe saved me some money since the reviews are bad.
We also have to be take into account lost DLC for many licensed games.
Shuma Gorath and Jill Valentine for Marvel vs Capcom 3 were pulled.
There were some DLC characters for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 that are no longer downloadable.
Maybe saved me some money since the reviews are bad.
We also have to be take into account lost DLC for many licensed games.
Shuma Gorath and Jill Valentine for Marvel vs Capcom 3 were pulled.
There were some DLC characters for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 that are no longer downloadable.
Saboteur is on Origin for $10.
I'm glad I got Marvel vs Capcom Origins before it got delisted, Scott Pilgrim I got awhile back but I missed out on the DLC.
This one hurts the most for me. Saw it before it got delisted, got into Jojo, then later found out it was delisted after I wanted to buy it
charlequin
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This one really irked me when I set up my PS4 for the first time and the first thing I got was a "P.T. cannot be downloaded" message from when I'd added it to my account months before it was removed.
Candescence
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This sort of thing should pretty much be a justification for a "sell it or lose it" rule in copyright law. It's not fair to consumers or culture as a whole if corporations are able to just sit on works and not sell them instead of actually selling them in an easy to access manner.
Same. The 3d ones just aren't the same.
Azure Phoenix
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What about the patches though? The 360's small, unmanageable, volatile game patch storage doesn't seem like it'd be particularly easy to backup. Without those patches DLC and existing save games are going to be useless.
how are games on proprietary systems like the ps3 and x360 free to copy?
As explained earlier:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172888025&postcount=38
For example, you can move the install file of an XBLA game from one system to another freely. There is no copy protection on the file itself. If a license isn't present, it just runs in demo mode.
There are sites that archive those as well since title updates do not generally have copy protection.
Well the console has to be cracked but I'm guessing that if people really want to keep playing their PS3's and 360's after a couple of years from 2015 there's going to be higher piracy. The consoles will get cracked and there might still be lots of sales for the games but there will be more and more used games. They'll be unofficially abandoned if they're not put on the backwards compatibility of the xbox one.
Good games stay on pirate sites and greyish sites for a long time. Even if the site gets taken down another will pop up in its place with the data. It might even be the same people as before or they might just throw all the data on a torrent to say screw it to the copyright notice.
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Console version got delisted
I'm glad I got Marvel vs Capcom Origins before it got delisted, Scott Pilgrim I got awhile back but I missed out on the DLC.This one hurts the most for me. Saw it before it got delisted, got into Jojo, then later found out it was delisted after I wanted to buy it
On the Japanese PSN, there were actually two versions of Jojo that got delisted: the improved PSOne version and the PSN version.
And if only I could find a code for MVC 2...
I still got the UMVC3 DLC in time, though.
sixteen-bit
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Reminder that games preservation is important.
Indeed. I was just looking through a PDF of the Book of Adventure Games Vol. II and for Adventure it listed an address you can write to for the source code. This book is from like 1984? 85? but I google the name and found a guy who runs a puzzle website. Looks promising. I emailed him about it, and he wrote me a loooong email back, and he still has a paper print out of the source code!