Cap_Canuk
Feb 17, 2004, 11:35 AM
I'm not sure I understand why not?
Since ST has decided to end service on the Dreamcast servers (with no plans for any future re-opening), I'm not sure I see the objection to finding alternative routes to continue playing a game for which someone has payed?
That's almost like saying:
since the person who invented "S'mores" doesn't mass-produce them, no one whould be allowed to distribute the recipe to make them at home.
I agree that alternative servers (GC, Xbox, or PC servers) co-existing with official ST servers is an infringement of their (Sega team's) commercial rights. However, since ST no longer supports the Dreamcast platform, I don't think I can find any moral onjection to former customers finding alternate routes.
Just my opinion.
P.S.
the locked sticky which prompted this post has this topic as a title, yet makes absolutely no reference to the subject what-so-ever within the post itself. It refers to "cheating" methods. I think that, even with a stretch of the imagination, the very topic itself of alternative DreamCast servers can not be viewed as "cheating".
Since ST has decided to end service on the Dreamcast servers (with no plans for any future re-opening), I'm not sure I see the objection to finding alternative routes to continue playing a game for which someone has payed?
That's almost like saying:
since the person who invented "S'mores" doesn't mass-produce them, no one whould be allowed to distribute the recipe to make them at home.
I agree that alternative servers (GC, Xbox, or PC servers) co-existing with official ST servers is an infringement of their (Sega team's) commercial rights. However, since ST no longer supports the Dreamcast platform, I don't think I can find any moral onjection to former customers finding alternate routes.
Just my opinion.
P.S.
the locked sticky which prompted this post has this topic as a title, yet makes absolutely no reference to the subject what-so-ever within the post itself. It refers to "cheating" methods. I think that, even with a stretch of the imagination, the very topic itself of alternative DreamCast servers can not be viewed as "cheating".