Like half a year ago I got into the mood for some Total war. Went to play Rome 1, on steam. Game was busted, wouldn’t load. They don’t even sell it anymore, they ‘patched’ it and now sell a “remake” that is dogbutt phone slop. Somehow it looks and plays worse then the original. Despite it “running the same game logic underneath”.
I thought maybe W10 finally broke a 20 year old game, but I put my trust into a russian site hosting the original exe and it worked. Crashed once coming back from a battle, but worked more then the ‘patch’.
Drove me up the wall because I had played it for the first time in like 21 or 22 and it worked fine. Same basic PC (I think I replaced the gpu?).
Companies need to be forced to open source any code after 20 years. Fuck your “IP”, you made millions already. I work on legacy code. Almost none of it has gone 30 years unchanged. I JUST changed some code that might not even run anymore, and it can vote in 2026. Because tech has changed from 2008 (last mark I saw on the file, maybe was updated later but I didn’t care to look at the diff tree). No shot any of the code CA has for Rome, or medieval, or shogun 2, or rome 2, is relevant to their “trade secrets”.
There are literal MMOs from the mid 90s that have been put back online because the guys open sourced it after they closed shop (Meridan 59 for example, some real classic fantasy pixel art in that game). But one of the “greatest games ever” is no longer legally available and nearly impossible to run. Denuvo/DRM, the mess that the “software stack” has become, and the “live service” model is gonna kill any “good” games from this era. Throwaway culture to the extreme.
Feel like I’m going to turn into a boomer about tech, despite being born during Clinton.
Like half a year ago I got into the mood for some Total war. Went to play Rome 1, on steam. Game was busted, wouldn’t load. They don’t even sell it anymore, they ‘patched’ it and now sell a “remake” that is dogbutt phone slop. Somehow it looks and plays worse then the original. Despite it “running the same game logic underneath”.
I thought maybe W10 finally broke a 20 year old game, but I put my trust into a russian site hosting the original exe and it worked. Crashed once coming back from a battle, but worked more then the ‘patch’.
Drove me up the wall because I had played it for the first time in like 21 or 22 and it worked fine. Same basic PC (I think I replaced the gpu?).
Companies need to be forced to open source any code after 20 years. Fuck your “IP”, you made millions already. I work on legacy code. Almost none of it has gone 30 years unchanged. I JUST changed some code that might not even run anymore, and it can vote in 2026. Because tech has changed from 2008 (last mark I saw on the file, maybe was updated later but I didn’t care to look at the diff tree). No shot any of the code CA has for Rome, or medieval, or shogun 2, or rome 2, is relevant to their “trade secrets”.
There are literal MMOs from the mid 90s that have been put back online because the guys open sourced it after they closed shop (Meridan 59 for example, some real classic fantasy pixel art in that game). But one of the “greatest games ever” is no longer legally available and nearly impossible to run. Denuvo/DRM, the mess that the “software stack” has become, and the “live service” model is gonna kill any “good” games from this era. Throwaway culture to the extreme.
Feel like I’m going to turn into a boomer about tech, despite being born during Clinton.