>TTD has been abandoned for decades>It had a strong community that supported it and maintained its own version>OpenTTD has even been released on Steam>ATARI faggots are releasing their shitty TTD port on Steam and now require it to play OpenTTDWhat a bunch of faggots. At least Steam won’t let them remove the game from the accounts of people who’ve already have it
>>735004986The alien wearing the skin of Atari as a suit has been embarrassing for many years.
>already gone from Steamrip
Thankfully I’m not autistic enough to find these type of games appealing.
I am glad that a few friends and I still have it on Steam.
>>735005174Haven't they always been pretty crappy? I'm not very familiar with retro console games, but the only thing I know is that they were responsible for releasing a bunch of crappy games and practically causing the market to collapse.
>already goneit's over...
Got it yesterday.
>>735004986Why not just download the game from its website?
>>735004986How is it better to get OpenTTD from Steam instead of just downloading it from the website?
>>735005531>>735005550You can do that for now. I'm betting they're already thinking about how to deal with this, considering they've also removed it from GOG. Also updates and it's just more convenient for most people.
>>735005531>>735005550You know how zoomers operate, if it's not on steam it may as well not even exist
what a nothingburger it's on gog, just pirate it
>>735005602Overwatch wasn't on Steam for a decade, Roblox and Fortnite aren't on Steam as far as I know.
>>735005593https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/03/14/steam-changes
>>735005649>it's on gogThey took it down there too>>735005672Yeah, but think about all those games that literally didn't exist in people's minds before they were released on Steam. Hades had been on EGS for like two years and nobody cared, but as soon as it came out on Steam, it became a huge hit.
>>735004986imagine giving money to people who didn't even make the game.
>>735005730I didn't even know that openTTD was on steam until now
>>735004986You can still download from the site, as you always could, OpenTTD has its own graphics set.Still, I hate when corporations sit on IP for decades just to get a quick cash grab when it's convenient. Would TTD still be so beloved if people didn't spend years making a FOSS version?
>>735005706>it's still free but you have to pay to receive it
>>735005760>Absolutely everyone heard about Concord>No one heard that OpenTTD was released on Steam even though it was more popularWe live in a society
>>735005776not trying to advocate for atari but they got the rights to ttd in 2024 so they didnt sit on the IP
>>735004986Backup the source code. Now.
Huh? If i have OpenTTD in my steam library i will now need to also have TTD in my library as well?I only ever had OpenTTD
>>735005730>They took it down there tooStill on gog but flags requires owning the original to run as the "mod" version
>>735005848Obviously someone sat on it for decades, but point taken.In an ideal world, games would get the Warzone2100 treatment.
>>735005850No need to panic. It's still free, as in freedom. They can't take down the site and they can't rip it out of multiple linux repos.
>>735004986>Steam
>>735005531Because steamies are mentally ill. They are not PC guys, they are just console brand fanatics who obsess over a bloated drm botnet.
>Atari back from the dead to ruin yet another good thing I hate this fucking world. And the human worms feasting on its carcass.
>>735005864Of course not, OpenTTD is the superior game.
>>735005864No. You'll just still be able to access OpenTTD because Valve doesn't allow games to be deleted from accounts.
>>735005730all they did was re-list the gameif 9.99 is a bit much for you (and these days who can blame you) pirate a gog copy and install openttd as normal from thier website
>>735005928Can you install yuzu as easily as before?
>>735005394The entire bullshit around Blood Fresh Supply should already be indicative. Nightdive are very hit or miss but they weren't given a lot of time by Atari to keep pushing out updates for it, so much that they re-re-released the game again in trying to unfuck the only official Blood port once more that's far more overpriced.
>>735005947you don't need to pirate a ttd copy to run openttd
>>735004986That sucks, but as long as the opensource version is safe, it's not the end of the world.
>>735005730>They took it down there toobut i can see it right herehttps://www.gog.com/en/game/openttd
>He didn't already own a copy of it for literal decades both on physical disc OR Steam or GOGI'm tired of browns and zoomers.
>>735004986Just play thisIgnore the unfortunate namehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/434520/Simutrans/
>>735005931>>735005947>>735006129>>735006150>
>>735005730>Hades had been on EGS for like two years and nobody caredThat's probably because people were actively boycotting EGS and games that took the 2y deal. EGS has a lot of users because of Fortnite, it definitely had the exposure.
>>735006203>>>/wsg/6110075
is transport tycoon harder than rollercoaster tycoon?
>>735004986Isn't there a free tile set for the game, can they pull it?
>he's not using jgrpp
oh great another ip to get raped
>>735006463Ive been playing ttd since the 90s and honestly rollercoaster tycoon is "harder" for me. but maybe Im just a train brainlet
Did OTTD ever add scenarios with challenges? On the OG game I just kept playing the one map until the CPU eventually outbuilt me on everything.
>>735006198make an argument for simutrans over openttd
Atari has always been retarded, not just after the buyouts
>>735006463>harderboth are autism simulators. I don't think "difficulty" matters here.
>>735006463Not really, it doesn't have timed/difficult scenarios like Roller. Then again, you can add AIs which can "win" though it's mostly them cheating on difficulties high enough to do so.
>>735007134It's free. I just checked TTD it's already paid on steam so whatever window this article mentioned is closed. DESU it's a fairly saturated genre and you can play Transport fever, or mashinky or a dozen other titles.
>>735007497openttd is free
>>735006463RCT has harder scenarios and some totally bullshit fan made content. You can't /really/ fail TTD. TTD probably has a higher skill ceiling though because at high level its basically building a circuit board afaik
Anyone here played the iOS remake? Apparently it's just Locomotion with Transport Tycoon name slapped on it and you can still buy it in stores. So I wonder what the deal is with the brand. Do you they only got rights to the original game?
>>735006203>Steam
>>735007497ttd is still the best one. I love mashinky but the development slowed down to a crawl
you can download the original from myrientoh wait it's going down too
>>735004986Britbong here, just downloaded this for the first time, never played TTD before at all.This is the most British game ever made by far, based entirely around the alien concept of functional transport services and planning.
>>735006463RCT is harder when you get scenarios that stick you with nothing but trash like Side Friction Coasters, Steeplechases, Stand-Up Coasters, Heartline Twisters, etc.
All these franchises ended up in the hands of corporations and opportunists who don't give a fuck about the game.Meanwhile, A-Train has been developed by Artdink since 1985, and the guys are still working on every new game in the series without abandoning the game's soul. Imagine if Maxis had remained an independent company to this day, releasing new versions of Sim City made in the same spirit as the originals for new platforms every few years...
>>735005394Yes. Atari has always been total trash since its early days, both in terms of game and hardware production and corporate practices.Today, Atari is a French company unrelated to the original. As far as I know, Infogrames bought Atari and started using the name because "Atari" has more brand power than "Infogrames", but it's just a venture by some French people who don't really know what they're doing and are just trying to profit from old IPs that Atari acquired over time.
>>735008605That sounds good. Is it good though?
>>735008605I remember playing A-Train 4 on DOS and understanding absolutely nothing
>>735008825>Is it good though?Yes. Especially the A-Train 9 Ultimate version, or whatever it's called, that was released recently. "All-Aboard Tourism!" and "PC Classic" are good too, but they're scenario-based.But it's a game that takes some effort to start enjoying because it's quite different from things like Transport Tycoon or Transport Fever. It's all based on timetables, you don't have signals to place, so you can already imagine what a nightmare it is to organize, for example, a terminal station with multiple platforms. It also focuses on passengers rather than freight trains.
>>735009067A-Train 9 is the same thing. You start the game and there are ZERO tutorials or anything like that, and you don't understand shit. You need a lot of patience and have to keep the manual open at all times to gradually figure out the game.
>>735004986Openttd was always free i don't get it. I would just pirate the ttd cd to get the original gfx/sound/music as i don't like Openttds remake.You have to buy openttd now?
Given that openTTDs source code is radically modified from TTD and it has fully custom sprites and sounds, why bother with this? The only thing remaining in TTD is the TTD in the title. Just rename it Fuck Atari Skinwalkers Here's Your Train Autism Lad and be done with it
>>735009264You need to buy TTD if you want OpenTTD on Steam or GOG.
>>735006463Transport Tycoon you can just do an aeroplane or long train track between 2 big cities and you'll have enough money to do whatever you want. Making a functional huge network of trains is 'hard' but it's more working out what works and what doesn't when making big junctions.
>>735009420To be fair, you also need RCT2 for OpenRCT.
>>735009264>You have to buy openttd now?It looks like Atari forced them to bundle OpenTTD with the official version on Steam, as if it were DLC or an expansion for the original game (which costs extra). It's now tied to the official game, so you can no longer download it for free separately on Steam.But as far as I know, this only affects the Steam version.
>>735009460Yes, but OpenRCT uses assets from the original game, so there's no way around it. OpenTTD is, in theory, a new game with its own code and artwork.
>>735009086That sounds interesting>All-Aboard Autism!
>>735009403well, the first question is why would you even care about having it on steam? the rest follows.
>>735004986Okay I'll try to remember why I should never give money to Atari but it's starting to be a lot of companies to keep track of.
>transport tycoon>make links from bus stations to railway stations that take them to city across the map>get on bus, be forced to take a 500 mile train
>>735010205turn on cargodist
>>735008605I don't know as a developer, how you wouldn't get bored of making the same thing over and over again for well over a decade.It's hard enough finding designers that care about a game to keep up with the ideas to improve over the previous entry.
>le autism
>>735006027NTA but kinda, it's just hidden. You need to know it's there
>>735005730>tries to give example of a game not on steam people ignored>uses a timed egs exclusive as the example
>>735004986It's unbelievably bad optics by Atari. OpenTTD is the biggest reason why this game is still as relevant as it is. This is only making it more inconvenient for new players to play. Also it's fucked up how the OpenTTD team has distanced itsef from the original game just to get screwed over like this.
>>735004986I mean its kind of the community fault for being retarded and using an IP that they clearly dont own.
>>735011337Openttd is not even the same game anymore, all graphics sounds and music changed, source code different
>>735009403>The only thing remaining in TTD is the TTD in the titleOfficially the TTD in the title doesn't even mean anything. It's just "TTD" to avoid copyright issues
>>735011505Nigga then change the name and move on
>>735011692You can still just download openttd for free from their website, this only affects Steam for some reason.
>>735004986I think it's funny the price they're asking for is the same I paid back in the mid 90s for a boxed version of the game
>>735012669In fairness I've had thousands of hours out of the original. All it needs adding from openttd is the fast forward button.
>>735008738It's even funnier when you know what kind of games infograme made.
>>7350086058.4 fps..... home.....why are japs so fuckinkg bad at programming?
>>735012957They mostly play on consoles, where 8.4 fps is the norm.
>>735004986You can dl the release from the page. You can literally use flatpak if you're on Linux. Who TF was playing this on steam?
>>735012669modern day companies only care about maximizing their profits. there's zero sense of ethics or responsibility to the society at large.
>>735006203>steamie paypig think people who are against their monopoly is a jewlol lmao
>>735012957That's because I was running the simulation at x70. In the x1 simulation (with shadows turned off), the game maintains a good frame rate. It runs at 60 fps on my PC.
>>735013681I just dont see how it takes up such a large portion of your brain
>>735008738>>735005394>Always been crapJesus, what the fuck have you zoomers been watching? ATARI literally maintained the US industry image in the Tech industry after the Auto Industry collapse and in the short period between 72 to 76 releasing and experimenting with high quality consoles, arcades and computers that even today are considered ahead of it's time. They nearly erased the competition because costumers saw their design philosophy in games that would go beyond eating quarters and they offered consistent support and fair deals to arcade owners. Everyone who worked with them went to move on to make gigantic contributions in the future not only of games but eletronics, computer graphics and technology in general. Everything bad about them happened when Warner bought in
>>735015784The fact that I've never heard anything good about them says all you need to know.
>>735015971>my ignorance is proof of my superior knowledgegg
>>735012854only one I know of is that old bugs bunny game back on the ps1.
>>735015784They only succeeded while they were pioneers. After that, they only failed. Activision, which became one of the industry's largest companies, was founded by people who were dissatisfied with Atari's completely exploitative treatment of its developers.The Atari 2600 sold because it was a novelty, but no one really took those games seriously (from a cultural standpoint), and you can't blame American analysts who thought video games were a passing fad when their only point of reference was Atari's total garbage.Atari computers never made it out of niche markets.American arcades are all trash, and no one should bother with them.
>>735016374I double-checked their history and it only confirmed my thoughts. They created the first console and then destroyed the entire market. That's all.
>>735011305The only reason TTD is relevant today is because Open TTDThey should pull a Ur Quan Masters and just remove the TTD from the name as Atari can't do shit about it after that.
>TTDPatchI am forgotten
>>735005947Open TTD just werx.
>>735016616That would require OTTD to be completely clean-roomed from the original game.
http://ttdpatch.de/download.html
https://users.tt-forums.net/danmack/
The amount of mental midgets ITT who don't know how to pirate or how to run anything outside of a digital platform is depressing.
>>735016598thanks for the info! seems i was the one that was lacking knowledge.
>>735017085colonel broccolis are unreal
>>735017085>>735017175>biggest accomplishment in life: born before 2005
>>735005936They aren't as mentally ill as a guy who can only speak in buzzwords.
>>735006463TTD is more like a sandbox, RCT is about the scenarios. It's hard to say.
>>735005394They were genuinely pioneers in the early days but they got eclipsed by more talented companies almost instantly as they didn't really adapt at all and ruined their brand image making bad games and horribly inaccurate arcade ports on the 2600 (Pacman 2600 has two fucking ghosts)
>>735009460People made free assets for OTTD over the years so if you were too moralfaggy to pirate and didn't want to buy TTD at the same time, you still had an option.In theory that's going to happen for ORCT2 eventually, but it requires a lot more sprites to be redrawn.
>>735005175at least I've got it in my libraryit won't go away when I uninstall, right?
wait, I don't get it. does OpenTTD in Steam include original TTD assets? if it doesn't then what are the grounds for the takedown, or why even put OpenTTD on steam in the first place?
>>735019126OpenTTD on Steam includes OpenGFX and OpenSFX, content packs that make it legal to distribute for free and make starting to play it more convenient.This meant Atari wasn't getting any money from anyone who first started playing TTD through OpenTTD.
>>735008605>A-TrainNever expected to hear this name here. I sunk many hours in the PS1 version.
PHEW it's still in my library
>>735019126The OpenTTD on Steam doesn't use any assets from the original game.What probably happened is that Atari approached the developers and they reached an agreement. They can continue distributing OpenTTD freely without any issues, but on Steam/GOG, their game is associated with the original.I don't know if the developers would face legal issues if they didn't do this. Because as far as I know, 100% of OpenTTD is built from scratch, from the code to the assets. However, everyone knows it's a TTD clone...
>>735019265>I don't know if the developers would face legal issues if they didn't do this.Other than it being an almost carbon copy of the original, redone assets aside?
>>735019265>I don't know if the developers would face legal issues if they didn't do thisAtari could certainly drag them through the courts if they wanted to, and whether they're in the right or not doesn't matter.
>>735005936t. console brand fanatic
>>735004986your fault for paying for a digital copy of a game you don't even actually own in the first place, i'll just keep playing my pirated copy
>>735010424Look at their list of games, A-Train is only a fraction of their repertoire. Only germans can work on the same game for decades.
>>735019431>openttd>paid for>pirating a free game with no DRM
>>735018750>you still had an optionhave, present tense
>>735019360it'd be a very easy defense
>>735008605>All these franchises ended up in the hands of corporations and opportunists who don't give a fuck about the game.Like Art"buy new version for minor features that should have been a patch"dink?
>>735008605>Imagine if Maxis had remained an independent company to this day, releasing new versions of Sim CityProblem was, Maxis wanted to avoid doing that unless they were desperate for money. EA was a double-edged sword for them, they prevented Maxis from distracting themselves with games that would inevitably flop, but at the same time, as we all know, they turned into a SimCity/The Sims mill until there were too many flops from the former so now it's just one TS4 DLC after another.
Best OpenTTD mods?
>Already have the gog version Nice try kikes.
>>735019508it'd be piracy now that the game is no longer abandonware
>>735006905just looked this up and I read that it's some kind of modpack for openttd? is it good or just some convoluted ultra-autism enabler?
>>735019987>openttd>abandonware
>>735019987OpenTTD comes with graphics/sounds/music that's 100% legally free, there's no piracy involved. Atari is just mad that they didn't get a single cent from all the people who discovered TTD through it.
>>735019810i'd say that FIRS Industry Replacement Set is the only universal one that you should use once you are comfortable with the vanilla industrieseverything else depends on what country you are roleplaying as since you have separate vehicle packs for usa/uk/germany/france/poland/russia/china/japan etc.i think only planes are universal so just use the aviators set if you want to
>>735019810FirsAvi8SharkBritish rail setsAmerican trainsPre 1950s transport for starting in the fucking 1700sFurry town pack (optional)
>>735019664Yes, A-Train 9 has been released about five times already, and now it's coming out again, this time for the Switch 2 (a Japan-exclusive version).But this practice of releasing the same game multiple times was unique to A-Train 9, as far as I know. I think it was the way Artdink found to monetize a niche game.A-Train Tourism, which is very good by the way, was released in 2021 and had only one DLC featuring historic trains, exclusive to Japan, and that's it.
>>735004986What the nigger is atari doing
>>735020564>Pre 1950s transport for starting in the fucking 1700seven though that seems fun, the mods that provide these usually just add a sailing ship and a stagecoach so it's still better to just start around 1800 so you can get the stephensons rocket in 1830
>>735019810
>>735004986companies shouldn't be allowed to reclaim ownership of shit they didn't protect for decades
>>735019431>he's imagining events in his head again that didn't take place in real life
>>735021269He must be a bot that was triggered by "Steam" and a few other keywords in OP, I can't imagine why else someone would go into an OpenTTD thread and go "lmao glad I pirated it"
>>735016616Can they even own an acronym the community came up with? The game was never officially called TTD
>>735019265>100% of OpenTTD is built from scratchIt started as a decompilation project, much like OpenRCT2.I swear to fucking God everyone loves to throw tantrums online without using their brains.This is the best outcome that could've happen. And if you need Steam to install a free software game you lack the mental ability to breath by yourself.
>>735016721The only thing I can think of that's missing in OpenTTD that TTDPatch has is tracks over tunnels, I wonder why they didn't implement that.
>>735005394atari was a major play back in the 80s but atari has been dead for decades now really, for the past 20 years it's brand was only kept alive by its parent company for licensing the logo out to plug and play consoles, they went into casinos and crypto as well. after nft's crashed they started a retro gaming division and are seeing record profits, so expect them to milk all their legacy assets with steam ports soon.
I already have it registered but i'm just going to start sharing the gog file, I'm not even going to tell people to buy it.>>735005836funniest shit: It has about 14 people playing it noAtari has made a 1000 player game into a dozen player game.
>>735021180Oh sweetie, that's very anti semetic IPs can be horded forever by the highest bidder because of fucking Disney
>>735021371That's probably the actual cognitive capacity of these posters, yes
>>735021560I think current atari is owned by SAAAAAARS
>>735021668>saars>sell train related stufffitting
>>735021542>It started as a decompilation projectThere's nothing to decompile, Transport Tycoon is written in assembly
>>735021728>saars selling a train game>it isn't carmageddon with trains
>>735004986OpenTTD is in my distro's repos thankfully
>>735021542Current openttd is a totally new game...with it's own self made assets, systems and all it's music is royalty free.They should just change the name and put it back up for free because corporations trying to snatch shekels from corpses need to die. TTD is 30 years old. It's not going to be updated or developed by Atari in any way. They just want a free 2-3 million dollars from the few thousand people who play openttd because it's a small close community keeping a dead game alive for free
To any anons who are somehow unaware of this, you should know that even if you don't have OpenTTD in your Steam library the game is freely available from its own website (at openttd.org).
>>735021742decompilation projects take the asm and create a high level representation
>>735021728Nutari is upset that people make games out of the predator of his people
>>735021598There's simply no reason to play TTD instead of OpenTTD. It's literally just the old game, with no improvements or updates to make it playable on modern systems, other than making it run.
>>735021742Opcode mnemonics are not cleartext inside the binary. There's a reverse engineer effort to effectively decompile the assembler's output.Plus it is known that RCT1/2 has been using some C (was it C++?) to interact with Win32, perhaps this is the same for TTD.
>>735022230Maybe TTD. Unsure about the actual OG, TT. I actually don't even know what Deluxe added other than Windows support and better resolutions.
>>735022119This isn't how a rail network looks in real life.
>>735021559What do you mean? You can build tracks on top of tunnels in OpenTTD, am I missing something?>>735022367Better train signals I think? Did the original TT have one-way signals? Also I don't think the original TT had the alternative biomes and industry sets that TTD has.
>>735022367There's a DOS version of TTD too. The Windows version is a bad port of it. One way signals was the biggest thing TTD added
>>735022575>>What do you mean? You can build tracks on top of tunnels in OpenTTD, am I missing something?I mean over building tunnel entrances, actually now that I think of it I think in TTDP you could also do the same with bridgeheads.
>>735022415>in real lifeTTD doesn't give you the tools to reflect how things would work IRL and because space is limited, you need novel solutions to problems like this.
>>735022415haha it's just a game bro
>>735022730Oh yeah, you definitely can't build like that in OpenTTD, I see what you mean. How does that even work, though? Do they have new graphics for tunnel entrances with lines on top?
>>735022367The only practical reason to even buy TTD when OpenTTD is free is to get the OG graphics, sounds and music to use in OpenTTD instead. This gives you a "legit" way of acquiring those outside of hunting down physical copies of TTD, or of course just pirating them.
>>735023062Yes, there's a new graphic for that.
>>735023209I think I've actually seen people use those graphics in OpenTTD as well (without the functionality, I'm sure). They look familiar.
>played the Transport Tycoon demo for hours back in the day>you were limited to just trains and railways in it>played it for hours>get the full game when happening across TTD in a dedicated PC gaming store when those used to be a thing>still primarily operated via railways despite having bus, planes, and ships now in the mix>later on end up playing the Locomotion / Railroad Tycoon series from there since they were primarily train focusedI wonder what would happen if Sid Meier and Chris Sawyer ever collaborated on a project, given they both were involved in a lot of games that shared a lot of DNA with one another.
>>735004986I can never be successful in this game without going into debt. It just takes so long to earn money
>>735023482cheat
havent touched this game in 16 years
>>735004986>download OpenTTD from their own website>Games -> Add a Non-Steam Game to My Librarywow that was so hard
>>735023471>I wonder what would happen if Sid Meier and Chris Sawyer ever collaborated on a project, given they both were involved in a lot of games that shared a lot of DNA with one another.Well, Sid Meier did team up with Will Wright on SimGolf, which feels a lot like a Chris Sawyer-style tycoon game with a few unique twists, and it's actually pretty good.
wasn't there another open source project similar to transport tycoon?i can't recall the name of it.
>>735024404Simutranshttps://www.simutrans.com/en/
>>735024331>SimGolfman I remember wanting to play this game only to realize I bought the OTHER SimGolf
>>735024597>bro didn't play DOS World Class Leaderboard
I used to like playing sim ant a lot
>>735021668It's French and operated by two white French guys.
Fucking hell, but I've already had OpenTTD from the site for years. How does this effect me, beyond maybe not getting updated anymore?
What's wrong with these people defending this shit? It's a shitty move no matter where you play. Like, what's stopping them from just going for the website version next?
>>735026929>OpenTTD from the sitenothing will change. just OpenTTD stops being downloadable from Steam without buying the original TTD, which Atari bundles with OpenTTD to make it work on modern machines. you can still download OpenTTD from its site as usual, updates and all.
>>735027262Probably the fact it's diverged so much it's not actually Transport Tycoon Deluxe anymore
>>735005174>The alienE.T.?
>>735027651So is the Steam version.
>>735027262I don't think they have much to go for, plus I doubt there's any such intention in the first place or they would've removed OpenTTD from stores entirely. At most they could probably go for the TTD name, but the project is reverse-engineered and independently developed, as far as I know that's not illegal so at most they would force a name change.
>>735005947If you want to run OpenTTD through GoG, you apparently have to pirate the GoG version of Atari's re-release TTD, because OpenTTD is not a standalone title for Gog's launcher but is treated as a 'mod' and it actually checks you own the Atari TTD when you attempt to launch it. (Yes- that's retarded. I agree)On Steam, OpenTTD was delisted as a separate title and is now only available to be added to your library as part of a bundle purchase together with Atari's re-release of TTD, but otherwise remains functionally a separate title. If you already had it in your library, it'll remain usable.>>735005931>>735007672Steam is actually the good guy here, you dumbasses. If you got OpenTTD through GoG and their launcher you'd have been far more fucked.>>735015784Atari only ever worked when they were on the cutting edge and pushing the field. After that, once they got to sitting on their laurels they grew fat with complacency and mediocrity. That's when their slopware era started, and it never stopped. Atari's version of "the good parts" basically is that short window from '72-'76 you describe. Anything after, they became and remained cancer. And modern-day Atari. Woo-boy. Modern-day Atari is basically a skin-walker riding the coattails of the brand name. In reality it's no more than a hedge-fund copyright-troll.
>>735019265Agreed. Odds are this is basically a redux of how Chrome Squad was strong-armed into the "inspired by Saban's Power Rangers" arrangement.
>>735027632>just OpenTTD stops being downloadable from Steam without buying the original TTD, which Atari bundles with OpenTTD to make it work on modern machinesAtari's repackaged original runs in a DOS emulator. It doesn't use OpenTTD.
>disney lobby congress to extend IP ownership for infinity due to micky mouse entering public domain >now publishers of video games are going through their dead IP lists to squeeze out a few shekels from the dumb goyim >because they now own the IPs for all eternity >and can wage law fair on anyone who DARES to keep a dead game going for freeGrim. I expect nintendo, Activision and EA will be having massive erections over this as they own a vast amount of classic IPs
>>735019265Depends on what you understand by "legal issues" I'd say. I don't think OpenTTD is illegal because it's not illegal to reverse engineer & reimplement something from scratch and they do not distribute anything from the original TTD (binaries, graphics, sound, music, etc.). That being said they ARE using the TTD name, which I assume they do not actually have legal right to. I don't think they could face "legal issues" beyond being forced to change the name, but if they get sued they need to defend themselves, even if they win, they need to lawyer up and go through all that shit. They probably don't want to. If I were working on OpenTTD I certainly wouldn't want to deal with that shit.I also think they had a talk before this new released of OG TTD and amicably reached this solution for OpenTTD distribution via actual shops, rather than their website.I think that realistically speaking this is kind of the best outcome that can be expected in the situation.
>>735033404My favorite part is when all these companies fail at milking their IP. If Nintendo can still manage to make the same damn game for 20 years, most companies like EA or Disney are producing such rubbish that no amount of fan love can save it. Just look at Star Wars, the community is still strong and alive, but it has completely rejected everything new and rallied around the old games and movies.
>>735026929Nothing happens and it will continue to be updated, even on Steam. You just can't get it on Steam or GOG for free anymore, you have to pay for TTD there. It's still going to be free on the site and will obviously still get updated there as well.
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