heimyXbox boss would ‘love to find solutions’ so games aren’t lost when the 360 store closes | VGC
SavvyWolfIf you’re not intending to sell them for profit any more, then just let us download and emulate them.
It’s not a hard problem.
TonyTonyChopperheads begin exploding at Nindento HQ
It's not even their company and just the suggestion here has their legal teams on high alert and ready.
I avoid using their actual name so I don’t get an automated cease and desist in the post
You really thing not referencing them or making any content related to any of their IPs will prevent them from sending a C&D? They’d probably send one out to everyone if it didn’t cost them any money to do so. God forbid you hire some plumbers, wear a red shirt, or draw something in the shape of a star.
all-knight-partyIsn't some of the issue there that just because they don't have plans now doesn't preclude them from deciding down the line to do something? If they release that all for free then later ports or things of that nature directly lose value.
Companies that don’t actively market/license their IP should lose it fairly quickly and be required to release it to the public domain.
I'd agree with that, there should be a stricter standard on that stuff across the board with media.
Who’s going to maintain that infrastructure of free old game downloads? Companies don’t like to work for little benefit. It’s way harder than you think.
Drop the ISOs on torrent, problem solved. No need to reinvent the wheel, just do what the pirates have been doing for decades at this point.
This problem was solved in the 90s with usenet and torrents
And BitTorrent is already used to distribute games! Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute WoW, for example.
Small correction, though - BitTorrent wasn’t released until 2001.
Do you not understand how IP we works? MS publish a minimal amount of the actual titles on the 360, the remainder belong to third party publishers that woukd never agree to this. MS have already tried to bring the whole 360 catalogue to the S/X back cat but can’t get a lot of these publishers to sign off on the adaptations needed to get them running.