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SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics & Dreamcast Classics get delisted in December
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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People are buying them?
. . why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE
Hey - if you can get physical copies of it, great.
A Steam bundle they can take from you with a click - nah. F that.
Sadly some ROMs are only distributed through Steam, and others, at least until the next month, in reference to the ones Sega is delisting, can only be reasonably obtained there.
But indeed, Steam is not trustworthy, in this proposed case due to a publisher being able to simply disable a game's depots instead of mass revoking licenses. And while I understand the points on getting physical medias, to my understanding, digital medias could work as an ownership system, but it would require a given platform to both distribute stuff DRM-free, and to understand that the copies an user gets are his/her to keep. (but on a side note, back up everything you can, including receipts, ASAP, just in case either the dev/publisher or the store pull a fast one).
What ROMs are only through Steam?
Going by some notes I have, for example, the Japanese versions of the Castlevania games, and also the games in the Namco Museum Archives collections.
Hm. I did a search for ""Namco Museum" ROMs SEGA" and it came up right away - is that not the one in question?