![]() The issue is that it takes nearly a century for things to fall into the public domain, which is fine for books, songs, TV shows, and movies that are usually easily reprinted or otherwise made available again with decent demand, but there are major compatibility issues with many non-current computer and video games to where only the most popular ones can afford to be ported, remastered, or remade. Fri 18th Feb Technically, those kinds of laws already exist.We definitely need an official way of buying old games and preserving them, but the difference between physical being out of print and digital stores closing.honestly it feels about the same on the whole. I mean it sucks, but I've had waaay longer to pick up these digital games than I ever did printed GC games, many of which went out of print during the console's lifetime. It's actually far easier than trying to hunt down an affordable copy of say Paper Mario & the Thousand Year Door or Chibi Robo. Later my PSP got stolen so I did the same again on my replacement machine. They were all free so I just went online found the files, added them to my memory card and then I had them. I bought my copy after they had been removed from the shop. WipEout Pure (or maybe Pulse) on the PSP had some free, timed exclusive DLC tracks. Now the only way to get it is to emulate it or buy a memory card with it on. Now the only way to get it is to emulate it or to buy it second hand.Ī digital game, or DLC, stops being sold online. Wed 16th Feb I don't understand what you mean sorry?Ī physical game goes out of print.If you want to have it in your collection there's still time to fire up Fates and purchase it, but after March next year a major Fire Emblem campaign will be gone outside of a relatively small number of limited edition physical copies. There are lots of games that'll be lost, but this does seem to be one of the biggest to bite the dust. Nintendo's Japanese support website has confirmed that Revelation and the other DLCs in Fates will be no exception they will disappear from sale. While Fire Emblem Fates also has a lot of other DLC add-ons that'll also disappear with the shutdown, it's the loss of Revelation that seems particularly painful. We liked it a lot in our review.įor the vast majority though this is a DLC add-on it didn't get individual retail versions like the other two campaigns, so unless you were lucky enough to get the relatively rare Special Edition that had all three on a cartridge, it had to be a download. Revelation was a third campaign, and pretty important for fans that wanted to go all-in with the story in this path you don't choose a side, and in terms of gameplay it offers another interesting mix of maps and challenges.
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