Wow...the sense of entitlement this topic exudes is just...wow. I'm sure that back in the day it was a GREAT big problem that if your brand spanking new Nintendo 64 wouldn't work with NES cartridges...you would have to...GASP...actually install the old console and play it once again. Can anyone here actually IMAGINE something like that?
Most of the games you BOUGHT on the PC a few years back will not run properly on your current architecture. I'm 100% confident that if I go and pull out my all time favorite game from my library, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, and install it on my Windows XP PC, it won't run it -as it's already happened- and I would have to resort to internet hacks or tips. I cannot take that game to Valve and shove it under their noses and demand they give me an online copy that works with my current PC -or GoG, whoever's selling the thing now-. They would laugh at me. The developers or the publishers that put it out even more so.
It's a sad state of affairs that gamers have become so entitled that they believe they are owed something more than what is written in their EULA. You get what you pay for, the company has no way of predicting now how that software will be compatible with hardware 5 years later on. They have sold you an item for your Playstation 3. If you get tires for your Ford Fiesta and switch over to a Ford Focus later on, Ford would not be obligated to give you the same tires for your new Focus -it's a wide analogy, roll with it-.
At the same time, you have paid for content which you've consumed. It has fulfilled its intended purpose and you have received your money's worth. Restaurants will not give you money back for food you've put in your mouth and chewed. And so on.
I read some stuff on gaming sites that just make me start trusting the gamer stereotype of fat, sad men, locked away in a basement, completely cut off from reality, living in a warped and perverted bubble through which nothing resembling a real world can penetrate.
This thread sounds a few years old really. 2007, 2011, I don't really know exactly which, but somewhere around there. If it's made in a "trolling" fashion...then it's a sad excuse. If it's serious...it's even sadder in a myriad of ways.
I'm calling it now: gaming will never pass this adolescent time. It will never mature, never attain a degree of respectability akin to books or even films. It will always be close, just in reach, but never able to fully extend to those lengths because it won't be allowed to by those that are to support it fully. It's maybe sad...but this is who our brethren are and there's fair little we can do about it.
Long rant, perhaps better said by someone else already, but I had to say at least this. This sort of thinking as demonstrated is what has put me off of blogging on games that I enjoy.
