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Azhdar: Can Gearbox remove all Duke Nukem titles from GOG? If the answer is yes, then what will happen to people who have DKs in their library? Because I have Duke Nukem 3D and this news scared me.
The same thing that happened with those happy owners of XIII and Re-Volt (missed this gem), they all will be there on your digital shelf ready for download while others will complain and cry out loud ;)
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Cadaver747: different price tag (remember Bethesda greedy approach).
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Grargar: Are you talking about the price increase of the Fallout games? You can blame this one on Interplay.
Not sure I can blame near dead Interplay for Bethesda's decision to increase prices for now their owned games on GOG.
Post edited December 04, 2015 by Cadaver747
Well, shit. I should've bit on the Bundle Stars deal when it was live.

I'll just wait until the Winter sale and get it that way. I would've liked to see the whole bundle here at GOG, but it looks like the publishers don't give a shit about this place.
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Matewis: Guess should grab Duke 1 and 2 then :P How are they, really? Is the level design comparable to the brilliance of Commander Keen and Bio Menace?
A few months ago I finished Duke Nukem I. It's a pretty EGA platformer, quite easy and entertaining, sometimes even fun. I managed to get though 6 episodes and get that nasty Dr. Proton in about 3 days of lazy playing.

Duke Nukem II was far to difficult for me even on Medium difficulty. You need to get used to it to enjoy. But it's the first ever Dukem Nukem game with SPEECH ;))
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Cadaver747: Not sure I can blame near dead Interplay for Bethesda's decision to increase prices for now their owned games on GOG.
Interplay increased the prices for the Fallout games 1 year before the games were removed from GOG's catalog. And the Fallout games weren't the only that had their price increased, but also games like Earthworm Jim 1+2, Freespace 2, Giants and Sacrifice.
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Post edited December 04, 2015 by Grargar
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JamesBond007: Quick question - what about other Apogee games, like Blake Stone or Rise of the Triad? Are these games under threat of being removed too or only Duke Nukem is at risk?
Only the Dukem Nukem license was sold to Gearbox. Everything else belongs to Interceptor... wait, what? ;)
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SCPM: I only have the Anthology direct from 3D Realms, as well as all the Duke games on GOG, but it's still disturbing to think it could be pulled from those places. Although it's highly unlikely the games would be pulled from users' libraries, it is still a possibility since Afro Samurai 2 was recently removed from users' libraries on Steam:
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/afro-samurai-2-pulled-from-steam-and-psn/1100-5304/
Different story: Afro Samurai 2 was removed as a whole game (because it was so bad) while Duke Nukem games are okay but franchise now belongs to infamous creators of Aliens Colonial Marines ;)

The very same story happened with STAR WARS franchise which was sold to Disney. Well my Steam Dark Forces & Jedi Knight games remained untouched as it should be.

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Grargar: snip
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Klumpen0815: Colin McRae and TOCA Race Driver 3 were on GoG once?!
Damn, seems I'm late to the party yet again. :(
You joined few years late ;)

URL to list of game removed from GOG
Post edited December 04, 2015 by Cadaver747
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Grargar: Interplay increased the prices for the Fallout games 1 year before the games were removed from GOG's catalog. And the Fallout games weren't the only that had their price increased, but also games like Earthworm Jim 1+2, Freespace 2, Giants and Sacrifice.
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Yeah I can recall that unfortunate chain of events. Half-dead Interplay struggling against bankruptcy increased prices for their products.
And then Bethesda bring their games along with Fallout games and start selling them like an old wine to the decadent Rome Empire (bad example I know).

Of course I can blame Interplay for Bethesda's decision to sell overpriced Morrowind, Doom and Fallout. Seems logical to me now.

P.S. Just in case, it was a sarcarsm
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Klumpen0815: Was it already Mr. Sympatico John Riccitiello or the old one?
I can't imagine John reacting to anything from us gamer-cockroaches.
It was a few years ago and it was Dan Connors, although Wikipedia says that the current CEO is Kevin Bruner and John Riccitiello is just on the board of directors. Either way, apart from not wanting to deal with those scumbags any more, I'm not that interested in their current output. BttF was - I think - the last actual adventure game they made (even if it was a bit on the casual side) and it's also the last thing I bought from them. I'll face a dilemma if they make more Sam & Max (as actual adventure games, not whatever you call the things they make at the moment).
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SirPrimalform: BttF was - I think - the last actual adventure game they made (even if it was a bit on the casual side) and it's also the last thing I bought from them. I'll face a dilemma if they make more Sam & Max (as actual adventure games, not whatever you call the things they make at the moment).
Ha, same here. I haven't bought anything from them since Back to the Future, because it bugged me, that all the bugs in their games weren't fixed at all, they got more expensive by the minute and the new ones didn't really interest me anyway since it was just franchise milking.
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Klumpen0815: Ha, same here. I haven't bought anything from them since Back to the Future, because it bugged me, that all the bugs in their games weren't fixed at all, they got more expensive by the minute and the new ones didn't really interest me anyway since it was just franchise milking.
That too. Their general 'not giving a crap' attitude pissed me off.
Does only the Duke Nukem games on gog have a chance of being remove for sale?
If not, what other 3d-realms games have a possibility of being removed?

Any case, I don't own Manhatten Project, and 1+2. >_<
Ya know, it could just be a similar thing to when Bethesda took over the license for the Fallout games.

They may be required to take them down (legally) before they can re-issue them here with Gearbox as the publisher. It might not be as simple as just changing the publisher name on the gamecard page.

So, maybe, just maybe the same thing that happened with Bethesda will happen with Gearbox after the dust settles. As in the Duke games will come back (and DNF I guess) but also the Borderlands games (at least the first one).

Of course I have NO clue, I'm just thinking outloud.

Also we don't even know if they're being removed from here at all yet...
Post edited December 04, 2015 by Majnun
Whatever the case may be, I downloaded a backup copy of the anthology installer from the 3D Realms website, to be safe.

(Yeah, as if I didn't already own - multiple - disc copies of most of these games...)

I'm sure we don't have to worry about our GOG libraries being affected by this.
What about the Megaton ed./Devolver? Simply gone from steam, is that it?
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vicklemos: What about the Megaton ed./Devolver? Simply gone from steam, is that it?
They haven't said anything about it. If it was being pulled, Devolver would say so and have a fire sale.

But honestly they probably have a deal to keep the game for sale.
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vicklemos: What about the Megaton ed./Devolver? Simply gone from steam, is that it?
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Foxhack: They haven't said anything about it. If it was being pulled, Devolver would say so and have a fire sale.

But honestly they probably have a deal to keep the game for sale.
Probably right!
Gracias ;)