juce
Champions League
- 7 November 2003
I wouldn't be so sure of this. I saw several similar posts, but this is really not the same across platforms. Maybe on Playstation / Xbox - where you do have the actual DVD disk - maybe there you are safe, and the game will keep working. Not 100% certain, but there is a good chance. But on PC, for example, with newer games distributed via Steam - i mean there is zero guarantee of anything. Strictly speaking you are not even "owning" the game, it's more like a rent-type thing, especially if a game has DRM which goes online and checks if this is a legit copy of the game. Which is what newer PES versions do. Not sure about PES 2017 and earlier, but certainly from 2018 and on. So, what prevents Konami from discontinuing / shutting down those servers that DRM code is communicating with? One switch toggle and boom, your PES 2021 no longer starts. At which point your only option is a cracked exe, which has that check disabled... but that comes with its own can of worms, and i don't recommend it. (In this day and age running an executble that you have no clue about, no idea what is inside or who wrote it and with what intentions - that's a recipe for all sorts of disasters, including identity theft and blackmail. I think people are slowly starting to understand those dangers, but many still are oblivious)There is also the great modding section for PES 21 and older games to re-explore and enjoy. Those games will never disappear.
PS2-generation of games, e.g. PES5/6 - sure those survive, since they are not tied to Steam and didn't have the sort of DRM (Denuvo) that modern games have. (And because nobody uses original exes anymore as they've been all replaced by no-dvd cracks a decade ago if not more. Which is ironic, given what i wrote in previous paragraph. But those were different times. It was less simple to steal over the internet back then, and cracking was more about prestige than money)