General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer

They are conflating two of the Talks. This other one ran Doom inside of Rollercoaster Tycoon with a corrupted saved game

Good, very good! Better to still be able to own it legally in its original form, even if it's not been updated. Because otherwise the alternative for most people would be downloading it from some shady piracy site which would be even more risky.

> Selling games you know have such dangerous security issues is not good.

I assume in the EULA they are selling it "AS IS", so the risks are up to you, especially given that the game does not run on modern OSs out of the box so it's not like your average grandma is gonna get hacked from this. It's a niche product for enthusiasts and tinkerers at this point. Is ID software also pushing security fixes to Doom so you don't get hacked from running a 30 year old piece of SW?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Getting hate for stuff like this is why most games companies will just say 'fuck it', and not bother releasing classic games to the public anymore, let alone their source code, if the bar they now have to clear is to also actively supporting their classic games for which their OG devs lave long retired from the company.

How many games companies are actively patching their 23 year old games?

Unlike other people, I don't let perfect be the enemy of good, and I appreciate them giving us the source code, that's already more than most game companies do. The community can take it from there.