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Let's overlook that fact that you don't actually own the game to begin with. Who wants to play Bionic Commando Rearmed in 10 years after PSN can't authenticate it anymore?
Bdarka: I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the same people who showed that there was a demand for a remake of a NES game. I love how readily people are willing to surrender any claim of ownership on their games.
Oh no, not Playstation Home lobbies. Whatever shall we do without more Home features? My life is now shallow and empty.
What the fuck Irem, I bet it took you guys and Playstation a lot of time to make theses game available on psOne classic!
Download R-Type Delta right now. Don't think twice about it. It's amazing and you will never find a physical copy of it. Your welcome.
Oh, no... I can't play Irem games anymore on PSN? Whatever shall I do if, in six months, I decide I want to play R-Type Delta?
Oh. Right.
IREM, it's always a good idea to take away options from your customers. Totally.
Oh. Right.
IREM, it's always a good idea to take away options from your customers. Totally.
Irem are having a really bad time of it recently. I'll be suprised if they don't go the way of Cing and quietly slip out of business by the end of the year. I hope not, since they've made some amazing games, but they've been cancelling projects and withdrawing products in a swift manner that has me a tad worried.
It's because they're no longer in the games business and therefore don't intend on maintaining their catalogue, because if they did, they'd be in the games business, which they're not anymore. Clear enough?
If it's like steam, you can still download it after they take it down, just not buy it. So it's no different than buying a physical copy and suddenly the store takes it off its shelves. You still own it, but other people are sol.
GOOD digital distribution services (like Steam) allow you to make complete back-ups of your games and keep them playable even if they stop being available for download.
"GOOD digital distribution services (like Steam) allow you to make complete back-ups of your games and keep them playable even if they stop being available for download"
I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure this is true of all digital distribution. Any counterexamples?
I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure this is true of all digital distribution. Any counterexamples?
Yeah, that is one of my main problems with this move to digital distribution. No matter how rare a game becomes, with enough time and money you can find a copy, but if we get rid of psysical copies they can just make a game never availible again if they want.
From what I can gather, with the exception of videos which are one download only (really dumb), you can redownload anything you've ever downloaded on PSN, even if said item has since been taken off of the store. Regardless, you can maintain your own personal copy as long as you don't format or, if you do format, you have a backup of your HD.
Please note, none of this has been confirmed. It's just what people seem to be saying on teh intarwebs.
Please note, none of this has been confirmed. It's just what people seem to be saying on teh intarwebs.
"Yeah, that is one of my main problems with this move to digital distribution. No matter how rare a game becomes, with enough time and money you can find a copy, but if we get rid of psysical copies they can just make a game never availible again if they want."
Unless you have a digital copy or you use one of the many digital distribution outlets that give you access to delisted content.
Unless you have a digital copy or you use one of the many digital distribution outlets that give you access to delisted content.
Something like this usually happens over rights issues, like with all those old Midway arcade games being pulled from XBLA when Midway died because all the rights holders went into limbo and Microsoft couldnt legally take 100% of the profit from it.
Maybe the rights holder to the R-Type games wasnt Irem but someone in Irem and who probably left the company recently.
Maybe the rights holder to the R-Type games wasnt Irem but someone in Irem and who probably left the company recently.
Irem isnt doing too well, it wouldnt suprise me if they close soon.
Damn shame considering just how great they were in the arcade era. I hope a big publisher buys them out and like Square with Taito, keep Irem running as a entity. Its more likley that whoever buys them out will brake them up and just use the IPs and trademark, like whats happened to Hudson
Damn shame considering just how great they were in the arcade era. I hope a big publisher buys them out and like Square with Taito, keep Irem running as a entity. Its more likley that whoever buys them out will brake them up and just use the IPs and trademark, like whats happened to Hudson
I actually like and have R-type delta (the PSoneclassic), it's good, and the fact that they're removing it is insane. I hope Sony does a deal to get the content back and/or, remove all their content from the playstation network so they can't do that shit again.
What the singer said..."like physical games don't get discontinued"
Though it does suck that the games are getting pulled D:
Though it does suck that the games are getting pulled D:
Not that I have any of those, but what happens if you've already bought it? Presumably you can still re-download it then, if you need to?
Otherwise, Sony needs to give people their money back!
Otherwise, Sony needs to give people their money back!
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