Probably less of a desire and more apathy. Money's already spent, and some bean counter mathed out that it would be cheaper to delist them than to keep paying people to manage the accounting and any payout to the devs.
Same thing happened earlier this year with all the Adult Swim published games, and some of the devs impacted (and I think some of the people on Adult Swim's side too) were semi-open about it once any of them knew what was going on.
They've already been removing a ton of the CN and Adult Swim content from the (HBO) Max service.
A good example of what can be possible, from the Super Mario 64 PC port: https://youtu.be/Lav8wgQP9rc
Looks like the old magazine ads for the game brought to life. That's a combination of the Render96 3D models project and the ray tracing mod for lighting.
Ocarina of Time's port (by the same team as this one for Star Fox 64) doesn't have anything quite as impressive yet graphically, but there are high quality texture replacements and an import of all the enhanced 3DS models. You can also replace most of the character and enemy models with the ones used in Twilight Princess if you want. And there are a ton of great quality of life changes like letting the iron boots be mapped to the D-Pad like a normal item. Water temple isn't anywhere as tedious anymore.
The .bat is for extracting the game data from the rom. As the readme unclearly says: you need to run the .bat to make the data files (the .OTR) you need to run the game, then you run the .exe to play.
Can't speak to proton compatibility, but I would be surprised if they don't release a Linux native version as well. Just give them some time, this just released and they are apparently still missing the .sh file for extracting the .otr on Mac.
These ports don't tend to be one and done releases, they get updates/bug fixes/upgrades/additional features over time.
Sysadmin here, so I have to limit my care to what I'm responsible for for my sanity, but I often feel this comic in my bones:
Even if you work at one of the rare unicorns where hard work is rewarded with raises and promotions, hard work has nothing to do with working extra hours. Fuck off with this "You need to be the first one in and last one out" shit.
About time. One hell of a wrap up.
Megaman. Legends.
While I would love for them to finally release 3, I think a soft reboot could work really well. Having a hard time putting it into words, but I feel like they could crib ideas from more modern third person shooters and dungeon crawlers.
Wouldn't necessarily be what I would want from a Legends return, but I think they could make some money from it.
Sorry, but the original is hotter. That base got me acting unwise. I mean, can you imagine the noises it must make rotating? 🥵
Yep. While WP Engine definitely aren't heroes here, Mullenweg has been mixing his business and the Wordpress org for a long time, and the licensing terms he decided upon for WordPress and the initialism WP didn't support the "special case" situation he tried to force WP Engine into.
If he had just kept his damn mouth shut and changed the usage/licensing terms so that commercial resellers over a certain size had to pay back into the costs for support, this wpuld have never been news.
I highly doubt he's been told that he must provide free support, and I suspect that he's just been told that by his own rules he must provide the same free support for them that he provides to all of the other users.
At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.
My understanding is that it's torrent and direct download caching on a massive scale, by file hash or something like that.