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adjl 06/02/21 3:33:29 PM #67:	Revelation34 posted... Earthbound is $10 on there and isn't even on Switch. Yeah, they charged extra for Earthbound in particular. I believe there were some music licensing issues involved in porting it (hence it took so long), which may have added extra costs. They also charged extra for titles on the Wii VC that had previously been Japan-only, like SMB Lost Levels and Sin & Punishment. Regardless, $10 for a quality 30-hour RPG is still hardly an unreasonable ask. Monopoman posted... The Scott Pilgrim game was also brought back recently in a complete form including all DLC. I am not sure if it's still for sale but it was just a few months ago. It was indeed. Expired licenses aren't necessarily a death sentence for games, since they can be renewed if there's enough demand to make the cost worthwhile, but they nonetheless make the game's future very uncertain. Monopoman posted... Really the most common abandonware games are ones from companies that are defunct and the games get lost to the sands of time. Many companies that made games back in the 80s and 90s no longer exist in any form. While true, that's really only made true by the fact that the IP holders are no longer around to pursue copyright claims against anyone distributing them. If we expand "abandonware" to include games whose owners haven't done anything with them in 20 years (but will still pursue copyright action against anyone that tries to distribute them), that becomes less true. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:954569451] in rom site o... [t:79489998]...</cite> <quote>Revelation34 posted... </cite> <quote>Earthbound is $10 on there and isn't even on Switch.</quote> Yeah, they charged extra for Earthbound in particular. I believe there were some music licensing issues involved in porting it (hence it took so long), which may have added extra costs. They also charged extra for titles on the Wii VC that had previously been Japan-only, like SMB Lost Levels and Sin & Punishment. Regardless, $10 for a quality 30-hour RPG is still hardly an unreasonable ask. Monopoman posted... </cite> <quote>The Scott Pilgrim game was also brought back recently in a complete form including all DLC. I am not sure if it's still for sale but it was just a few months ago.</quote> It was indeed. Expired licenses aren't necessarily a death sentence for games, since they can be renewed if there's enough demand to make the cost worthwhile, but they nonetheless make the game's future very uncertain. Monopoman posted... </cite> <quote>Really the most common abandonware games are ones from companies that are defunct and the games get lost to the sands of time. Many companies that made games back in the 80s and 90s no longer exist in any form.</quote> While true, that's really only made true by the fact that the IP holders are no longer around to pursue copyright claims against anyone distributing them. If we expand "abandonware" to include games whose owners haven't done anything with them in 20 years (but will still pursue copyright action against anyone that tries to distribute them), that becomes less true. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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