I work as a software engineer professionally, and I can tell ya right now- it would cost absolutely nothing for these games, even if they required perpetual server connection, to be made publicly and permanently accessible if the developers simply released the source code. There are people out there in droves intelligent &amp; capable enough to take that source and run with it, and devise solutions to bring these games back without AAA funding. The only thing we're running up against is the grotesque, and frankly evil, fiscal incentive of planned obsolescence.,(reply>), @JoeSheepy isn't the "free market" so beautiful? 🙄,(reply>), Microsoft are the biggest boogeyman in the planned obsolescence space. They own Xbox so don't want you playing any old games at all so you have to buy their new ones. Then they also make Windows so will use that to prevent you playing old games for paper thin reasons. I remember when Windows 10 was released and old games wouldn't work as they removed support for "security reasons'. Thankfully people fixed the issue after a while but I'm sure later versions of Windows will block the use of old games and the mods to allow you to play them completely.,(reply>), Planned obsolescence has/is doing more to hold back consumer innovation than any one individual and or company ever could. Bloody light bulb manufacturers just couldn't help themselves and now we're stuck in the thick of it.