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<blockquote data-quote="tenparts" data-source="post: 254240" data-attributes="member: 5615"><p>That is a horrific misunderstanding of how PC tech works and how Nintendo works as a business. It also ignores that SPA is <em>not</em> a new game, it's a license-mandated standalone expansion pack at absolute best. Last but not least, it ignores that TPA never had DX11 until recently, that it is fundamentally a DX9 game.</p><p></p><p>Here are some much better, if imperfect, comparisons: imagine if Nintendo found a way to prevent overseas releases of Pokemon Emerald (which were released after the DS) from working on GBAs, then imagine if there was suddenly a retroactive patch for Civ V that removed DX9 from the game <em>just because</em>. Or better yet, imagine if the Zelda Oracle games (a pair of GBC games with secret features if you play them on a GBA) <em>only</em> worked on a GBA, despite being GBC games. That's the kind of thing we have here.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The IE6 problem isn't the same thing at all. There is way more nuance around that situation, involving no real alternative for years, and devout Microsoft loyalty by their non-computer sheep when an alternative finally appeared.</p><p></p><p><em>SPA is not a new or even separate product at all</em>. It's just a hack of TPA with all the Stern tables in their own little box, probably as a specific demand by Stern. This is not people resisting change, but developers randomly deprecating a widely-used feature probably out of budget concerns. I wouldn't be surprised if they'll try to pull it from normal TPA as well. No, I shouldn't have to buy a new PC just to run the exact same game I bought months/years ago, that's ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>FS acts well below a B dev sometimes, yet we're supposed to treat them as better than the typical B.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tenparts, post: 254240, member: 5615"] That is a horrific misunderstanding of how PC tech works and how Nintendo works as a business. It also ignores that SPA is [i]not[/i] a new game, it's a license-mandated standalone expansion pack at absolute best. Last but not least, it ignores that TPA never had DX11 until recently, that it is fundamentally a DX9 game. Here are some much better, if imperfect, comparisons: imagine if Nintendo found a way to prevent overseas releases of Pokemon Emerald (which were released after the DS) from working on GBAs, then imagine if there was suddenly a retroactive patch for Civ V that removed DX9 from the game [i]just because[/i]. Or better yet, imagine if the Zelda Oracle games (a pair of GBC games with secret features if you play them on a GBA) [i]only[/i] worked on a GBA, despite being GBC games. That's the kind of thing we have here. The IE6 problem isn't the same thing at all. There is way more nuance around that situation, involving no real alternative for years, and devout Microsoft loyalty by their non-computer sheep when an alternative finally appeared. [i]SPA is not a new or even separate product at all[/i]. It's just a hack of TPA with all the Stern tables in their own little box, probably as a specific demand by Stern. This is not people resisting change, but developers randomly deprecating a widely-used feature probably out of budget concerns. I wouldn't be surprised if they'll try to pull it from normal TPA as well. No, I shouldn't have to buy a new PC just to run the exact same game I bought months/years ago, that's ridiculous. FS acts well below a B dev sometimes, yet we're supposed to treat them as better than the typical B. [/QUOTE]
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