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by caseyjones29142 2225 days ago
I think that's more of a licensing things really. Some of those old games had really wierd diels especially for music rights.
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I never understood why music publishers care so much about licensing for old games. Are they worried people are going to put on GTA3 to avoid buying a couple songs? It makes more sense to me that playing old games would encourage those song sales.
Before your comment I thought the more likely reason that Microsoft qualifies games is to reduce the amount of development and support effort needed for their emulator. Even Halo 1 struggled to get some good framerates, IIRC.
That’s the reason why some games keep going in and out of Steam. Especially console ports such as Alan Wake.