>old technologies get dropped, making old games not work, run into issues or look worse than intended
>windows updates fuck you over by making older games unstable or straight up unplayable
>Nvidia dropped support for older versions of PhysX, meaning that if you ever get a more modern graphics card you will be unable to play a bunch of various games such as Mirror's Edge, Payday The Heist, X-COM Enemy Unknown, Rainbow Six Vegas, Trine 1 & 2 or Orcs Must Die 1 & 2 at good fps with PhysX effects enabled (you're doubly fucked if they can't be disabled)
>still no proper fix or workaround for the above btw
How does one deal with the fact that the suits in charge are constantly trying to sabotage PC gaming?

>>712634109 (OP)
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines got hit by this the hardest
>Game doesn't have LAA so values loop back to zero if your computer has more than 2GB of RAM, crashing to desktop
>Game's anti-piracy measure requires a very specific protocol from Windows Defender that only existed on 9x and XP, crashing to desktop if you don't have it
>Game can't officially get any updates due to all of the legal spaghetti surrounding the licensing, publisher, developer, etc.
This led to modern players thinking the Unofficial Patch is required, and thus an entire generation of fans have been poisoned due to all the arbitrary changes We5p has made to the game using UP (even Basic changes a lot of the content like where the raptor is and the music that plays on the beach. The worst part is that UP permanently fucked up every single walkthrough and wiki entry for the game because the people that maintain those can't make distinctions between the vanilla game and the Unofficial Patch.

>>712634109 (OP)
Just emulate

>>712635001
Emulating most of these games would suck dick. Especially the shooters.