so you dissagree with projects like MAME = I mean you cant buy Asteroids the arcade machine new - the board requires vector specific hardware to run it, so who are you hurting buy playing the old arcade games that we all love. I think that if a company has not re-released the original version of the game for 7 years then it should automatically become freeware, we would still, however have to wait a while to play wc1 and 2 because of KKS, but I digress, in some cases, like the very old arcade games that were anavailiable to the general public, abandonware is a good thing, but using it as an excuse not to buy games and to wait untill they are classed as abandonware is what i think has most people worried. As fot KS. I had 2 copies, I gave one away and still play my other. In my opinion, as you can no longer get it from origin or any other retail outlet, and there are no plans to re-release it, it should be made freeware, if EA cant be bothered to allow people to buy / download it. But as I say this is opinion. Please dont go into a post deleting frenzy, immature idiotic posts on abandonware are one thing, regulate them, but not at the expense of legitimate discussion. Over regulation kills.