For every guy in this thread suggesting that the benefit to provide code updates to aging, out of production games is that it appeases the home collector there is another new buyer in the market who could care less or barely even understand the nature of code as they buy one for their basement bar or boathouse. Those of you threatening to stop buying NIB games because of lack of code support for older games never actually live up to that!! How many years have people been bitching about incomplete or buggy code on game after game...KISS, GB, GOT and other. Yet all of these collectors still continue to be spoon-fed every game.
In principle that makes sense - the consumer makes a statement thereby leading to changes at a company to better support existing product...totally get it....but until the consumer actually starts making that statement that they threaten to on Pinside all the time, its not going to move the needle at all. We are making it easy for Gary and George to say...meh....we are done with Ghostbusters...Dwight, go work on Munsters or (insert next game here).
Until they have their management meeting and the bean counters say "well guys, the last title really didn't hit the sales targets. The only conceivable reason that can be the case is that you have pissed off your Ghostbusters and KISS owners enough to skip out on this one...perhaps we should revisit those now." nothing will change...
Matthews, NC
