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.
