![]() Especially when you consider how badly some games use those API. Maybe, but the further you get into windows and the direct3d/directx/whatever the more complicated you get. (Yes, they kept backward compatibility when they jumped up to 64 bit processors, but keeping it going will become less and less viable as technology progresses.)Īre emulators going to be reliable enough to run these things? Hell, eventually they will go to an new architecture all together much like when things jumped from 16 to 32 bit and suddenly all those old DOS things wouldn't work on the new computers. Yeah why really? Sure, Beamdog would probably use it to make another EE, but them aside the loss of the code also means a loss of the game in a historical sense.Ģ0 years from now are OS's going to use the same calls/system things/whatevers (sue me I'm not a coder) they are now? No, probably not. People have their own priorities, and quite often convenience is a thing they are willing to pay for (clearly, since the EE's seem to be selling quite well despite they many detractors I see on this site).Īlso, people being happy that the code is lost. What I'm saying is don't assume that because its easy for you to do, or you have time to do, or you think it should be done that way, doesn't mean it actually is that for anyone else. No, I'm not saying the EE"s are awesome sauce or whatever. Having a newer version of the game that they can just click "install" and then click "play" on are ideal fore these kinds of people.Įspecially when you get into older versions of games that, while they still technically run on modern OS's, may have issues or inconveniences that modern games don't have, and people won't want. Why spend that time learning how to even "run" the game when they can just be playing it instead? (Edit, my brother is also in the pretty damned busy category, what with kids and all.) Remember, just because you know such and such mod website is relatively safe doesn't mean that everyone does. People like my cousin who are busy busy busy who have better things to do than learning which mods are what, where they can be obtained reliably, and if there's anything special that needs to be done to install them. (My brother was guilty of this one, and he's not exactly stupid by any means, just not computer savvy sometimes.) People that might, say, accidentally end up installing malware on my mother's laptop making me deal with the headache of removing it all. I know plenty of intelligent adults who may enjoy a game like Baldur's gate or Icewind Dale but quite frankly have limited entertainment time, and/or limited experience with installing programs on computers. I'm relatively neutral on the whole deal myself (the existence of the EEs that is), but acting like its simple for everyone or its how it "should" be done is the naive thing. ![]() Just because you have the time and know how to dig up all the third party mods and install them doesn't mean other people do. Molerat: This attitude is one thing that always irked me (to say the least) about some of the anit-EE people. ![]()
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