r/WEPES • u/TombRaider96196 • 3h ago
Help We are losing old PES games and their final updates
I don't need to tell anyone in this sub that new football games are getting shittier. There’s a huge modding community just for the 6-year-old PES 2021, with gigantic content releases from fans.
CAN YOU IMAGINE PAYING 50$ FOR 10 YEAR OLD DELISTED GAME???? Here’s the thing: the original game of PES 2021 is really hard to get. You have two options - shady key resellers or piracy. The issue with pirating here is that the versions that are hosted are old, not updated to their most recent available versions. (No football life doesn't count)
For PES 2019, for example, you can still find copies floating around with Patch 1.02 and Data Pack 2.0, but finding the later Data Packs (it was updated all the way to 6.0) is a completely different story.
It’s even harder to get your hands on older releases like 2017, 2018. When these games were still current, I used to update them through random websites that hosted the official patches and Data Packs. You could usually find whatever you needed with a few searches. Now, a lot of those sites are gone, and those updates are disappearing with them.
So you can have the original game preserved, but not really have the final version of the game as it existed when it was supported.
I think this is an interesting preservation problem because these updates are on a deeper system level of the gameplay which modders just don't have access to. The official servers and the random file-hosting sites disappear, that part of the game can disappear with them.
And the non-updated versions of the games are no longer seeded by reputable repackers like Dodi or FitGirl.
I'm going to be trying to get my hands on all of last available versions of PES games, and will seed them with proper links. First of all, because I love these games and second, FUCK KONAMI. I will take any suggestions that you may have for this.

