The issue that someone makes a package for a project that isn't theirs and then the "upstream" gets an influx of people requesting stuff from that unofficial source is unfortunately not a new one - tons of projects suffer from that, really.

And having to deal with that, especially from a source you personally couldn't care less about, is highly frustrating.

So, really, I get the guy.

That is really the big downside of everyone and their mum being able to provide packages instead of requiring official affiliation.
Even if somehow the current packages are taken down, others are likely to just appear.

My personal solution: Mednafen.

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I wonder how many decades we'll have to wait for a proper WYSIWYG editor in Steam... or hell, even just proper buttons/shortcuts for formatting options.

The Steam review/comment editor looks like it was unchanged since the early 2000s.

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Unless the game is heavily humorous in nature, this is an absolutely awful change.

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While I certainly won't miss those specific games, this sets a rather troublesome precedence.

What if those providers at some point decide that they no longer want to see, eg. the use of alcohol or guns or certain flags or or or or ....

You have to live with governments having a say here, and it is often actually for the better.
But payment providers are pure corpo, so I'd rather they have no say at all.

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Seems fine to me, honestly.

Freedom is all good and dandy, but some things are behind age checks for a reason, and the internet has frankly been way too lax on those for ages.

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Pointing AND clicking!

Two of my favorite activities.

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Honestly, even in the corporate world, there are businesses that still utilize Windows XP or Windows 98 because of a critical application that absolutely will not run in modern operating systems.

There is no such thing as a critical software application that could not be rewritten, emulated or ported. Hell, even COBOL is somehow finally on its way out.
Ending life support for old environments is exactly what forces those crusted structures to renew themselves.

Otherwise, we'll see more people with your stance of "we'll deal with it later" - and that "later" never happens, and everyone else suffers from having to carry decades-old legacy crap still around.
I've "debugged" enough ancient corporate systems to know that the problem is never "this cannot be renewed" but always "we don't want to deal with this right now, why would we, it runs doesn't it".

Ahem. Library person here. Sure, books disappear, but just disappearing because "nobody ever read them" is not "normal". So for instance, in my region all the academic libraries have a kind of catalogue-sharing thing called "last copy" to make sure that when we weed books that aren't used, we don't all accidentally dump the same one. Somebody will have one last copy of that weird old book.

And how many books were lost before your region adopted such a system? How many books are outside of your system?
No matter how effectively you try and conserve something, things get lost.
And yes, even though people try to lie to themselves regarding the temporary nature of, well, everything, things (especially of little renown) disappearing IS normal.

Doesn't mean you can't try to preserve things, but it has to happen within reason.
Maintaining 32bit hasn't been reasonable anymore since its nearly flawless emulation is a thing.
The amount of work to replace the very few 32bit dependencies still used by Valve wouldn't be that much, IIRC everything has a replacement already, it just has to be implemented and tested.
However, Valve does everything at Valve speed, which I'm sure I don't need explain further ;)

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i recomend this presentation for anyone thinking legacy dont matter, but i dont think its your case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65crLKNQR0E [External Link]

It's not that legacy doesn't matter.
It's that we do no longer really need legacy itself to keep other legacy alive.

Some things will no longer work, no doubt.
But I'd argue that those things were no longer important to people or someone would've made an effort to modernize or preseve them - just as people did with Flash, which can still be enjoyed without having to have Flash installed (with a bit of effort).

Who knows how many books we lost because nobody ever read them. It happens, it's normal.

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The sooner this happens, the better.

People have to start moving on, and developers have to start preparing for allowing people to move on. We can't keep grandpa 32bit alive forever.

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Someone needs therapy.

Probably those kids.
They've seen things.

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