Well, the trouble is, there are so many games that had DRM like SotA (just activation), or worse forms of DRM, and when the servers were shut down no one bothered to release no DRM patch... I mean, sure oyu can ask, who would like to play an old game, it is like reading old book or watching old movie, it makes no sense, right?





Yeah, but suppose that in the distant future Portalarium will no longer exist. I will get new computer, try to install SotA to show my grand children what games we used to play back in 2020 and I will not be able to activate it because it will require online activation. (or because it uses patcher and does not provide me with full installer that has everything needed for offline play). That is something that happened to so many games and I find it really annoying, because there is no reason for that. Companies that no longer exist made some good games, which are (at least officially) unplayable, because they had this DRM. I can understand why they wanted DRM (even when it does not actually prevent pirates from enjoying the game), but the thing is, sooner or later they will stop selling hte game and running activation or download servers is no longer porofitable, so they are shut down, there is no one selling the game, but why should that mean those who bough it cannot play it on their new computers?!

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