BTGBullseye

Yes, even then. Selling accounts is not currently legal in the USA.

Unfortunately, that will run exactly opposite existing USA law. You can actually get federal jail time for "sharing" an account like that. (if the federal government so chooses to target you thus)

I thought I was right that DosBox emulated the MT-32... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_MT-32#Emulation It's in both ScummVM and DosBox.

That's pretty much my views as well. I'll gladly give up the resell to have it digitally distributed, and once the game is left by the wayside by the devs, still playable.

The problem with this is, there will most likely be a significant increase in games being marketed in this way, (subscription model) despite the market limitations. Don't underestimate the greed of these corporations, or their shortsightedness. (businesses are notorious for going after short-term profits to the detriment of long-term stability, their shareholders and board of directors usually mandate it) The always online component allows publishers to control (to some extent) how long a game lasts. Once they shut down the server, regardless of what sort of licence they sold you, it becomes unusable. This has already happened to many games, so don't discount the publishers moving to that model. The way I hear it from some insiders is that there is already a few attempts underway to relegate several small but critical pieces of files to a login server, similar to Battlefield 3, except with smaller pieces, and more critical data that is less easily repaired without the original source. (making it effectively impossible to either pirate, play offline, or play after the company wants the game to end) There are a few problems with this. 1. I doubt publishers will be hurt significantly by this, for a while... If they start losing too much money, they'll either scale back by liquidating devs, or by switching to the subscription model. The number of perpetual licence digitally distributed games will DEFINITELY be reduced, most likely by a lot. 2. These "proper fee systems" you talk about are most likely not legal at this point. You can't legally charge someone to sell their couch on cragslist, so why should it be possible to charge people to transfer digital software? (this IS the argument that will be used) Right now, there is literally no legal framework in place to support this type of market, and introducing it with minimal or no regulation like this WILL be very detrimental to every aspect of the digital market. All that said, most devs are likely not going to notice many changes, apart from a significantly reduced income for games that have minimal or no replayability value. (like Frostpunk)

A lot of people are looking at this as optimistically as possible... That is a mistake. Publishers and devs WILL fight this. Hard. If you look at this with that in mind, and with regards to how well those same companies have done in the past regarding the same sort of thing, you will see that this is not going to turn out well for ANYONE. Either you'll get everything going to subscription services, or they'll be always online, or they just won't get made. (the latter is most likely what will happen to smaller devs) There is little or no chance that being able to resell digital games will help anything in any way. (except to line the pockets of a few who will game the system)

Stellaris Trying to finish the game. but so far every time I finish all the research and rule the entire galaxy more than 800 years before the victory year.

About as easy to enforce as laws that restrict what sex acts you can do in your home, or laws regarding private sales of firearms.

Well it's been over 3 years for me since I was last in this thread... And I just fell nothing... Why can't I just feel something?

This is in fact a very real issue... As much as this may be "good" for the consumer in the now, it could very well kill any possibility of actually owning any games ever again in the long term. (since subscription services and free to play will not be affected by this)

Getting tired.

Just played through 10 levels of Dead Space... So far only one jumpscare that startled me, and even then it was mild, and mostly brought on by my hitting of the mouse sensitivity button and not being able to turn properly at the same time. (thought my PC was about to crash) I've predicted about 95% of the enemy spawn points so far.

You sure it wasn't down because some EA lackey hired a hacker to take down someone going after their business model?

It was still a massive overreaction.

Way to overreact about someone's opinion.

I can 100% get behind that...

Minecraft. Tried a few Windows 10 settings changes meant to make it more stable and have slightly better performance... It worked. "Disable fullscreen optimizations" works well to increase stability by a LOT.

Trying to relax after basically doing felony speeding for the last 2 hours...

Trying to not be tired...

Xcom 2 War of the Chosen. Max settings at 4K downscaled to 1080p (Virtual Super Resolution on an RX 5700 XT) and MLAA on top comes out to a really nice and smooth image, with no artifacting whatsoever.

Same, but that's not really an option for what I plan to use my PC for...

Trying to be tired...

I'm better at physical art myself, and unfortunately don't have any pictures anymore. (cataclysmic concurrent drive and device failures suck) Those are quite good though!

I'd rather pirate it myself. ?

It really is fun, until you've unlocked the best stuff... Then it's boring. It's sad they didn't add in a game mode similar to C&C3KW for world conquest...