I was simply responding to your "WhY wOuLd AnYOne WaNt tHiS?!?!?!?!?!?!".
It is still a ridiculous answer, you are defending Microsoft 'good action' of letting people pay again for 20+ games, only to get a worse version of what they can have thanks to many community tools like Insignia, a free revival of OG xbox live.
From what I read of the article if you have already purchased the digital versions of those games (which were later available on the Xbox Store/marketplace) you can now play them on PC.
Thats the minimal thing they can do. What? The licenses you rented on Xbox is somehow incompatible with the license of the emulator?
(IE the theft I was referring to),
What theft man? Those games have been abandoned for 20+ years, and we already know that at best you rent a digital license. If 5-10 years for now Disney/Lucas Art revoke all license of Star Wars to EA, we know these companies have no shame in just taking games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 from your 'library'.
If you tell me I can just go to a place in the Microsoft store, and just order a new copy of Star Wars Battlefront, of Halo 2 or Dead or Alive: Xtreme and then deliver it to me (aka, not a license rent), I will concede you that it is theft. But thats not real.
this seems to be a great way to experience those old games as they make them available.
And this is what my original post was about: It is not great, unless somehow you are slave that if you dont see it on the store for digital borrowing, then it doesnt exist.
TODAY, there are better solutions, all community driven and related to the OG Xbox, I will just name a few:
- Free Online: OG Xbox live in all its glory with friends, message, etc
- Achievements: Some mad lads somehow managed to introduce achievements in the OG xbox.
- Mobile ports and Cross play: Play on your Xbox, play on your PC, Steamdeck, tablet or phone and with everyone else using insignia and unlocking achievements.
- Mods and ports: games like UT99, Hexen 2, Dark Forces are being ported with even more things to come now that people developed some C tools for new homebrew games. And dont worry, these ports usually ask you to put the game files from PC into the the port, so this is not first degree robbery.