Catshade: Do they actually despise Fallout's rereleases on Steam and GOG?
Delixe: From what I read they only seem to despise the fact they are expected to pay for them.
Yes, they seem to be a strange breed over there.
It seems more than a little churlish to moan about paying for old games based on the small profit GOG and the publishers make for re-releasing these games at a reasonable price and the fact that none of that money goes to the original developers.
I have to wonder how much money in donations these hypocrites have sent to the orignal developers of all the "Abandoned" games they have downloaded over the years.
I am personally of the opinion that copyright and IP law as it stands is not fit for purpose and badly needs to be updated in order to come into line with the digital age. While I don't think it is unethical in certain circumstances, to download old software and games, it does not give me the legal right to do so.
The argument that they are only doing so because there is no legal way of obtaining this software doesn't really hold water when they are not prepared to buy it when it does get re-released. Wishing and pushing for a change in the law is one thing, breaking said law because you do not like it is quite another.