In this case its probably the music licensing not intentional stupidity from EA preventing a re-release.
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Jimbo@pawb.social 1 day ago
Funnily enough there’s still no Steam, official retail or official online way to buy that game lol. There are so many people who have missed out playing an absolute classic because of that. Fuck EA.
AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
The only thing preventing a re-release of any of these “EA Trax” era titles is that they’re not willing to pay to renew those licenses.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
Usually yes, but sometimes no. For a recent example, all the “cover cars” from past Forza Horizon games are available as loyalty rewards in Forza Horizon 6… except the McLaren Senna from Forza Horizon 4 because the Senna family has decided in the years since FH4 that they will no longer allow anyone but McLaren to use the Senna name for any price. If Playground wanted to remake FH4 they’d have to drop the Senna from the car list, which would be understandable but really disappoint fans. Now I know that that exact scenario is rare, but that’s not the only reason people deny rights to things that they once did: sometimes like Toyota in the 2010s they decide they’d no longer like to be associated with those kinds of games, sometimes even figuring out who owns the rights after decades of mergers, buyouts, and business failures makes things unclear no matter how deep you dig, there’s a lot of ways things like that could go wrong.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I always assume old games are dead and go the alternate route
tonyn@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
One can buy a PS2 and a physical copy of the game aftermarket. Put some money in a fellow gamer’s pocket.