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[The Fifth Horseman]

Note to mods/admins - this is not supposed to be an ESA-bashing thread, if anything like that begins then feel free to lock it.

Now, the thing is... we see some companies still keeping up sales of their old titles, both in standard form as well as pay-per-download one, 3D Realms being a god example with still selling old Duke Nukem, Blake Stone and Commander Keen games. Altough their pricing is usually a bit high considering the age of the games, I feel that in general they do the right thing by continuing the aivaiblility of these games.

ESA, however, protect only the copyrights and hypothetical income that exists only theoretically, since the companies with the copyrights are not continuing the sales of their old titles. This is also one of the reasons why these games end up so often on abandonware sites that soon get smacked because somebody at ESA decided to execute their rights to the games. See our recent trouble with ESA for an example.

The question now is, do you think ESA should do something to bring back old games for sale, be it in the full form or in pay-per-download one?

This would not only help protect the copyrights of their members but also the income from these titles would be real and not only theoretical as it stands.
I know that some people would continue to obtain these titles via illegal means, but in my very own opinion the frequency of such cases would greatly decrease, since people will be able to obtain a fully legal copy of these games again.

PS. Please, no ESA-bashing here. Express your opinions politely and to the point. We're supposed to be civilized people, so let's behave like ones.