Is this taking time away from her efforts to raise the minimum wage or get universal parental leave in the US?

There is no way EA owns the rights to every implementation of “Lewis Carrol but macabre!” any more than Rhys Frake-Waterfield could stop me from making a film where Winnie The Pooh kills people with a chainsaw.

Who’s talking about EA?

I thought American McGee was complaining they sold “Alice” and now EA doesn’t want to make more.

If AM wants to make more, make more and file off what markers you have to.

He can make something based off of Through the Looking Glass

And he should. Give the characters a dye job, spell their names different, and have at it.

Right but what’s the problem? If you’ve still got stories to tell, tell them about a “different” Alice.

They can’t touch IP based on a public domain work??

Well maybe 1000 games is too many.

Tell you what, we used to have 6 games and we were happy.

And when I look at the market prices of old retro games and then the counterfeits

I’m with you there, but maybe the prices are going up because new physical games aren’t being released any more, so I can contort my way to blame that on digital gaming, too.

As for 3rd party repros I like those; they fill a niche. Heck, someone should make …pros of games that never got physical releases.

The disk could always break.

That’s what backups are for.

If there was any online component, they could always take down the servers. Or if the game was broken from the start or became broken at any point, they could always just never provide the necessary update to make it playable.

Digital only just makes those problems apply to all games.

I’ve never really been one to sell my games because I’m always wanting to go back and play them later, so I can’t really offer any input on that fact.

I like playing a collection too, and I was able to acquire it because other people where able to sell/give away theirs

I just prefer the system that gives me at least a paper thin guarantee over the one that’s less convenient and has absolutely no guarantee.

Being able to physically hold everything needed to play the game was our guarantee.
A guarantee the publisher would never ever be able to take what we had just paid $60 (or less, secondhand) away from us.

If I punched you in the dick, would you say, “At least you didn’t kick me in the dick (with shoes!)”?

What good is legally “owning” a game if you can never sell it, and what good is games never breaking if you can’t buy and run them from a yard sale for a quarter?

You can’t play The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on this.

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I got you though.