And when they disable the download because "game is old" or "we want to remake it" or "servers are too expensive" then what?
You don't own the game and you don't sell the game. You own a temporary license to play the game and sell that license.
Just like on Steam or any digital store front.
Sure the advantage is that you can resell your license, but let's see if those cards still do anything in thirty years, like games from thirty years ago do now.
They made a really shitty situation (not owning your games) a little less shitty.
p.s.
Obviously we are also in this mess because convenience trumps ownership, that's why Steam and business models like these grew so popular.
So uh, now it works.
My screen went black and came back but I could only select 30hz. So I decided to reinstall everything nvidia, nvidia-dkms, nvidia-utils, lib32-nvidia-utils and opencl-nvidia.
After this magically Sims 1 and 2 work! I have tried to get old games to work since October, and I am sure I did this already before, but somehow it now works.
Ah, alright, I am using a 3090, that I was foolish enough to buy during the gpu shortage, it's probably not the best supported gpu as it is so expensive and not that common.
I am using nvidia-dkms (thought it would have the best compatibility), maybe I should try nouveau just to see if that makes a difference.
Sorry, Wayland not X11.
The weird thing is that it only happens with old games, I guess I could switch to X11, but I am pretty happy with Wayland otherwise. If there was any fix I could try I'd want to do that before switching to X11.