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They turned off the MSN Music DRM Servers! People that bought there lost the ability to transfer their music away from their device. I sometimes play games tha
by DominikR 13y ago
They turned off the MSN Music DRM Servers! People that bought there lost the ability to transfer their music away from their device.
I sometimes play games that are many decades old, and as anyone that collects games knows, consoles tend to live shorter than physical game copies.
So what am I going to do with a Xbox One in 20 years after the DRM Server were turned off?
Hope that the console never fails so I don't lose my complete collection? (If the failure rate for the last two Xbox generations is any indicator, chances are slim)
- katbyte 13y ago> I sometimes play games that are many decades old Thats one thing steam is actually pretty good for, its got lots of older games (some from the early 80s!) that generally just work on pretty much any modern PC.
- DominikR 13y agoThat is true, but I also pay much less for a Steam game on average, than I would pay for a Xbox One game (usually 69.99€ in Europe, which is ~90$), which also reflects that I buy a (possibly short lived) license. Also, it's probably much easier to backup and play your Steam games on a PC, even if Steam wont be there forever, than it would be with such a locked up system like the Xbox One.
- zanny 13y agoBy Steam you mean GoG, they don't even have DRM on them, but they update the Windows installers so they work. Though I have to criticize their lack of the Linux ports of the old titles =\
- markbernard 13y agoAre you going to pay for the developer to do that? It's just lucky that Steam is supporting Linux at all nowadays.
- zanny 13y agoI'd definitely buy another copy of Neverwinter Nights if it ever got the Linux version on GoG.