MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Future saving of new games....

> > Sadly, for a lot of games this isn’t true. A prominent example is Civilization V
> for
> > PC/Mac – it will install the version from the disc, but it won’t let you play until
> > you connect to Steam and update it to the latest version. It allows you to play
> > without a network connection after the initial update, but you can’t actually play
> > the version from the disc, and you can’t play without connecting the first time.
>
> That is why I **HATE** things like Steam and the other electronic resources. Prime
> example. Nintendo's Wii Ware shop. Gone. If your Wii breaks, and you get another one,
> all your games are gone. Nintendo got your money, they don't care. Sure, you can find
> them online, but there are a lot of people that do the right thing, and invest good
> money in these games, and deserve to be able to show them to their grand kids 30
> years from now.

I was gifted a Wii several years before it went out of support, and I'm glad I never purchased anything from the Wii Ware shop. Just before N* dropped full support of the Wii, I was able to download a ton of free demo games from the ware shop to an SD card. Ever since then, my Wii won't connect to the shop and I'm stuck with what I have, other than buying physical disks from second-hand stores. Basically, over the course of 3 years, my Wii has become obsolete and I cannot get ANY content for it going forward, including old content that was once offered online.