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Console makers would like you to repurchase your game every 5 years for the new console, if they deem the game fit for re-release. Whereas I've basically been
by elsonrodriguez 7y ago
Console makers would like you to repurchase your game every 5 years for the new console, if they deem the game fit for re-release.
Whereas I've basically been copying the same DooM 2 install from computer to computer for 20 years.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agocries in registry issues
- cwyers 7y agoI think this is going away. I can play (some, and it's growing over time) Xbox and Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One, and if I bought them digitally or still have the original disc, I don't have to pay anything more.
- krageon 7y agoBackward compatibility used to be way more normal. Then it was killed, now it is slowly coming back and we are supposed to be thankful for it. A more cynical mind could be tempted to think of this as a strategy.