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The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever (www.gog.com)
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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (1 child)

[We still strive to get as many DRM-free titles as possible on GOG, regardless of when they were first released.]

This is why I will always buy a game on GOG rather than Steam if I can.

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    • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    This is good but can we please get a native Linux client?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Heroic Games Launcher is a pretty smooth experience on Linux for what it’s worth. It works well for GOG, Epic, and Amazon Games.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    While Heroic is great and I love it, I would be nice to have official support from GOG.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The developers of Heroic are in regular contact with GOG employees, and they also get a cut from any GOG purchase made through the Heroic client.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That is interesting, may we have a source?

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    • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I just hope they will also provide the unmodified versions for people that want to play them on original hardware.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

    Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

    7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it's not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

    Off the top of my head I can think of:

    • Black&White
    • The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
    • the original Starcraft and Warcraft
    • Pharaoh
    • Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS "clone" exists)
    • Evolva
    • Syndicate

    I could go on forever...

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    • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)
    • Myst
    • Riven
    • Ultima Series, including Ultima Underworld I & II

    ❤️❤️❤️

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    • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The games

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    • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The "what kind of person are you" value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.

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    [+] -18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Fuck gog. if I need a game to live forever I pirate.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    I think you've missed the point.

    Yes, they're looking to continue selling older titles and your point is that pirating / torrenting is free, but GoG are ensuring the game will actually run on a modern machine - the pirated ones will have problems (not even covering the potential malware ridden ones)

    I've been there, done it, got the t-shirt, the t-shirt faded, got ripped and is now a rag somewhere... this is a good move by GoG.

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