No, they will not do so. Either they've been sold or gone bankrupt, in which case releasing an asset (all those people tied into the system by activations or Steam style persistent monitoring most certainly do count as assets) is illegal, or they have to get permission for every single title from every single publisher whose games they have sold to alter the exe, permission which they have no reason to seek and the publisher has no reason to give, especially since it would be more work for them to remove the DRM; and all at a a time when they are presumably trying desperately to either get sold as a going concern or not go bankrupt, or shutting down their operation permanently for other reasons...I doubt a gaming verification service will shut down without releasing some kind of "universal unlocker"..
No, they will not do so. s.
As for the question of limits: if I have a working Blu-Ray player in 30 years and disks in good shape, I'll be able to play just like I could now with an Apple ][+ with a working copy of Wolfenstein. Completely original, completely legal. Anything else is suggesting that we are not getting full rights to the product in the same way as was historically true.
what you mean "legally play it" ? you buy the right to use the software and this right never expires.
I just wonder … Why implement that "live window" stuff at all ?
Why didn't they just leave it out ?
I can play 20 year old games on my computer that has Windows 7 with Dosbox and if you have linux you have a good chance of playing dos games on there with a default install since many of them include Wine which has support for dos programs. Most of the games coming out now won't run on systems 20 years from now even if something like dosbox or wine exists since you would have to circumvent the DRM for it to work which is illegal.
Why is it so hard to imagine that if some authentication server used for current DRM systems is no longer active some 20 years down the line, that a tool similar to DOSBox (in the sense that it will allow you to play a game that can't otherwise be played) will exist?
Why is it so hard to imagine that if some authentication server used for current DRM systems is no longer active some 20 years down the line, that a tool similar to DOSBox (in the sense that it will allow you to play a game that can't otherwise be played) will exist?
I didn't say right, I said access.
If - in 10 years - you need to activate this again and their servers don't respond and they have no "unlocker" or similar in place, then you don't have access to playing it. You can't play it legally, in that case - but there are always illegal alternatives obviously.
I don't know if it is legal or not but i can not be charged of pirating games that i legally own for getting around the DRM by using a crack , either if i do it after 10 years or right now.
Why is it so hard for you to admit that these companies are willing to treat all paying customers like thieves and that is inherently wrong, yet we all put up with it in order to play the games we want to … but feel the need to protest and voice our protest so that customers will listen to the *paying* customers?