Whatever, man. I spend my free time trying to help people on this forum. If your only reply to that is that that help is not appreciated, then that's your business.
You know, in this time of ever-changing OSes and hardware, they can't keep maintaining decades-old games forever. Loads of games eventually switch to community support. It would make things easier if they released the source code, sure, but from what I heard, so much stuff got lost when Westwood was disbanded that they might not even have it anymore.
Not to mention the simple fact that the current fan-patches for the C&C games are just incredibly far ahead of anything they could produce. I don't think that patching being in the hands of the community is such a bad thing.
The only problematic point, of course, is that EA can't really add fan-made patches in the official bundle, since they can't guarantee that fan-made stuff is completely safe. It'd be nice if there were a list of fan-patches mentioned in some official place. Then again, we kinda have that, here.
For the record, these are the fan-patches available for the classic Westwood games:
Command & Conquer 1:
Red Alert 1:
Tiberian Sun:
Red Alert 2:
None of these sites, as far as I know, are Russian 🤨
Nyerguds I completely understand what you mean with regards to how involved updating games that are decades old for all kinds of different hardware is.
I do agree kind of with OP though that if this game is still repackaged/sold by EA on their marketplace, it should be supported and/or compatible with whatever is current.
Well, yea, if they stop maintaining it they should really just make 'em freeware... but, y'know, they did that, with the oldest three. But since all those freeware releases were pushed by the community managers, and done as promotion for the then-new C&C game releases, well... we have neither community managers nor new C&C games, now ☹️
It's also immediately obvious that those games that have been made freeware are the most extensively fan-patched, simply because on those we no longer have to be careful about DRM.
But overall, when given the choice between them still selling it but with little support, or them not selling them at all, I dunno, I'm kind of glad you can still get them so easily.
