Is this version going to have subtitles? AFAIR the original ones didn't have them.

anniversary edition my ass... it's just badly and heavily filtered, plus the aspect ratio got messed up (stretched) *facepalm*

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The partial subtitles in the original talkie version of Simon the Sorcerer 1 are just enabled via a hack, which can cause glitches, and is still missing many subtitles.

I have the originals bought here, I suppose those still stay in my library of course. The originals will just be removed from sale so that new customers can't just buy the originals.

The originals will be "hidden" just as bonuses for the new releases and the new versions will be the main ones on display. Old owners still have to pay 50% if you want the new versions as well. I don't see anything in the new version that would be worth purchasing.

I could buy the new version if there was a commentary track from the original developers for both games, they should've made the new versions as well like how Tim Schafer made his old LucasArts games. Commentary tracks, concept art gallery viewer and all that.

Why is GOG even selling such rubbish? You previously declined to sell Opus Magnum stating it looked to much like a mobile game, despite Zachtronics excellent track record and now just a couple months later you literally are placing a several years old lazy mobile port on the front page.

You can instantly see in the trailer that this is a bad port, with no effort made to "remaster" the game. In the very least they could have at least used a better filter. Having such a poorly produced trailer for a 25 year old game, shows how little care MojoTouch put into this release.

Please show that GOG still cares about their customers and take this trash off your store front before you start stinking up your whole site.

Happy 25th anniversary Simon! You haven't aged a pixel... sadly. What a joke.

Those vaseline smeared visuals look positively offensive, You can't just slap a 2xSai filter over the graphics and call it HD.

I sure hope you can turn the filtering off, otherways I'll be sticking to the originals.

Edit: Wait, owners of the originals don't get these for free? I'm expected to pay again for the privalege of vastly inferior visuals AND redundant copies of the same games on my shelf? Piss off MojoTouch.

Not defending these piles of trash just pointing out what it says on their store pages.

"Optional retro settings: play with original graphics, original music and even the original controls"

I can do this by playing the original superior version.

Trash like this makes GOG look almost like Steam. Nobody asked for this, and most likely no one really wants it. I know I certainly don't especially if you're removing the originals in favour of this garbage water.

Also pointed out by many. ScummVM can already play the game this way so these are pointless.

TRY to see this neutral.

The right owners of Part 1 and 2 have changed.

The new rights owner wants to sell their "new" (unliked) version to make profit.

What should GOG do in this case?

a) stop selling the games all together (no originals without the remakes) or

b) continue selling the old games as part of the bonus of the remakes?

Option b) is the only way of keeping the originals still around. New publisher, new problems. We must get used to it.

there's a third way - and it's not really /that/ hard:

change the startup screen for the originals, since you own those assets now, then: sell BOTH "25th anniversary" and "old editions" for people who want them.

you are making money both ways. are you making ALL the money if you do it this way? no, probably not, but on the other hand, you're not frustrating your userbase, you're not continuing a terrible trend and you're not coming out of this looking like you're completely user hostile.

i'd say all those things are a win.

the current way this is going, mojotouch are just losing interested parties by the bucketload /and/ they're earning themselves an [deserved] reputation for scumminess/lowest-common-denominator work. if i were in their shoes, i'd want to WOO customers. not push them away.

I encourage anyone to tell MojoTouch exactly what they think about this directly;

[url] http://mojo-touch.com/contact/ [/url]

I believe GOG doesn't own the assets and instead merely has a license on selling the games. It's possible that IP owners want to sell only their new and lazy mobile port and refuse to prolong the license for old versions to GOG but I worry enabling something like this will cause this to be a more widespread practice. Bioware/Beamdog RPGs were bad enough IMO and this might be on its way to becoming a pattern now.

Not to mention how this price hike reeks quite badly. That's what the "anniversary edition" part is in the end - a weak justification to sell these games for more money.

The question was "what should GOG do" not "what should the new rights owner do". GOG can't just decide to keep selling the old game against the owners wishes.

Sadly GOG has dropped that feature a long time ago.DRM-free is holding on for dear life ;).Cheers