5 years later - pc gamers still playing it while console services are shut down

25 years later - PC gamers still playing it while it is unavailable for console and illegal to play it on other devices.

modern yakuza games, for example, will all be digital paperweights on pc as soon as the denuvo online activation servers go down. ps5 copies will still work as long as there is a functioning console and a functional disk.

This is what cracking is for >:)

Unfortunately the games that use these problematic copy protection methods have unreliable cracks (if they are cracked at all). Off the top of my head MGS5, Judgment, and FF15 all have cracks that are outdated and break with each major Windows update, which is not a good situation with respect to the PC platform’s reputation for game longevity.

Windows in general isn’t a good situation with respect to PC gaming longevity.

The situation in linux is coincidentally better by these games not being native linux builds, which lets users choose older WINE compatibility environments without impacting the rest of the system, I suppose.

blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

I’m also saying that within a couple decades, I don’t think windows will exist.