Reever: Well, it is funny, if you think about it. Maybe he even had in mind what I wrote in response. That would be funny and sad at the same time, then :D
Tarhiel: As long as he´s not criticizing Inxile for patching old game, just because it´s old, I am having a good time too :)
No, really, in all seriousness, I appreciate studios who take an effort to update their games for modern OS-es. Arcane did the same with Arx Fatalis - they released last patch 7 years after release, or so? Just to make it more friendly for newer hardware + higher resolution.
Granted, it is not 25 years, but you got my idea.
Arkane Studios did more than that, they
even released the source code to the community , which now fixes remaining bugs in a reasonable way in the
ArxLibertatis project. inXile should do the same (assuming they still have the assembler + high level language sources). In general, I think companies should release the source code of legacy products in the wild after some time. Some small movement in that direction is seeable with e.g. Adobe and Apple releasing historical source code e.g.
Apple Dos or
Photoshop.
As small reminder, If you think this a good idea, vote also for
this community wish!
