by Holmes » Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:44 am
a petition like this could force companies to not abandon old expensions, unless they want others to take their place.
this is not only good for nostalrius, but for the entire online gaming community.
while you can easily re-experience single-player games by just patching it to a certain state, its impossible to do so if it requires a server - nobody is allowed to host - of the same version.
this results in players, that have paid for a certain version/expansion of a game but are no longer able nor allowed to play it anywhere. this cant be right and this has to change
plus: this is especially the case for those games where "expansion" does not actually mean "expanding the old version" but "changing and re-creating everything".
its a difference if you want to eat vanilla ice, so you buy vanilla ice, and the ice-cream man gives you a chocolate scoop in addition, or if he mixes your vanilla ice with the chocolate scoop up.
one means you can still eat your vanilla scoop by kickin the chocolate scoop off if you want to, the other means you cant "unmix" the vanilla and chocolate, no matter if you like or unlike this. the vanilla scoop does not exist any longer