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Right now, the play they're making is selling and integrating the underlying low-latency tech to other companies

It's pretty much the exact same situation as OnLive, but OnLive at least was an idea that was ahead of its time and made the company money when Sony bought it to convert into PS Now.

I've had game stores go under I used to shop on, before Steam became 100% open to indies

Desura being the one that I lost the most stuff on

but those were mostly $5-$10 games, maybe a $100 all-in

people have sunk hundreds or thousands into Stadia libraries

sold, sold and then went bankrupt, sold and then went bankrupt

good history

I don't think I've actually lost digital games from stores being shut down. The closest I can think of is buying a game that used eLicense, the company shut down and stopped selling, and if you want to install the game on a new computer and register it, you have to contact the company that licensed the eLicense software to the publisher that shut down.

I've lost nintendo wii eshop games, that is the closest thing I have experienced

I used to buy those pack-in games like Plants vs Zombies on a couple storefronts too

Actually this is true; I completely forgot about the Wii Virtual Console and the Wii U eShop, but that's because I put homebrew software on my systems and backed shit up, and can flash shit onto the systems at any time.

I don't care to hack my systems

I like that nintendo stuff has such good ROM/emulation

I can find just about any obscure game I want to, forever

for any Nintendo console

Actually on my Wii I would have to re-do it. I let my brother borrow some old systems years ago when he had cancer and couldn't do anything, and one of his kids ended up doing a factory reset on the Wii.

Yeah, other than some edge cases, like emulating 3DS controls for games like Kid Icarus

nintendo emulation is really good

the availability of the ROMs is also amazing

they're just.... all there

Yeah

As they should be

Honestly, all games that are not being sold should be freely available

Pretty much. If you're not going to let me give you money for a game, then why bitch about it.

When I was doing my stupid rance playing, I learned that alicesoft made a lot of their old games freeware and just released them all, and I wish more companies just did that

Public domain takes way too long, imo.

That reminds me, Robs stupid public domain statement is getting closer

this is actually shocking to me

phijkchu should release urealms live on steam as a standalone game then

:Kappa

the entire world is like this, not just America

Public domain statement?

Rob made some bs statement that all of his stuff would go public domain in 4 years

during one of his breakdown arcs

<2.5 years!

I'm having trouble if you can even renounce copyright on works in Canada.

of course you can

Rob has no idea how copyright law works, but you can denounce ownership of anything at any time

given you actually own it

Rob doesn't have any formal IP codified anyway

There's a difference between IP and individual works, though

His whole statement was that he'd release assets of everything he's worked on

and consider that releaseing it into the public domain

The individual videos are automatically copyrighted upon creation.

no, they're not

Okay, that's me misunderstanding what he was saying then.

I thought you meant the videos, not the assets.