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Posted October 15, 2016
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Dragoon001: Sorry, I meant Warhammer 2: Dark Omen, the sequel to Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat :)
(Sigh of relief])

In the meantime googling for DO2 brought me to Dark Omen Expanded 2..I think I'll try it :-)

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Dragoon001: I would sell them if I had the energy to take picture, put on ebay, write a description and ship them, but since my dad died last year around that time I'm caring for my mom 70-80 hours a week. I want to simplify my life as much as possible and get rid of everything I don't immediately need. Less is more is the slogan I chant these days.
Yes, that's changes the perspective on what is important in life...I'm very sorry for your loss..

If you want to get rid of your stuff I would still try to sell it in bulk on ebay - you don't have to write extensive description - just take a few hi-res pictures of what you own, add a comment that you prefer personal reception and that's it. Berlin is a big city - with luck you will get rid of all your stuff with one shot.

EDIT: Oh..maybe these guys will help/tip you what to do with your collection.

EDIT2: And these guys here go all over the country and prepare (over 80 so far) exhibitions with old gaming hardware/software. I was on one of such events with my son once they've visited Poznań. The site is in polish - but google translate it and there are plenty of pictures - you will realize what they do.
Post edited October 15, 2016 by tburger
Posted October 15, 2016
Why not give them to a charity organization?
Posted October 15, 2016
To OP, good on you for doing this. Do what you want with your games. Knowing they are in a location that will treat them well is nice, and in the end if gog does not want them you can give them away in some other fashion.
Do what you want with your stuff!
Posted October 15, 2016
Uhm... what? Either I don't get what the OP is actually atalking about, or the OP doesn't really understand what GOG is. Or that last mana potion was spiked.
Posted October 15, 2016
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Breja: Uhm... what? Either I don't get what the OP is actually atalking about, or the OP doesn't really understand what GOG is. Or that last mana potion was spiked.
GOG collects games in order to have material to make their own digital packages (of course, they can't actually release anything until they get an OK form the publisher, but they grab anything they can get their hands on just in case). Some are from publishers sending them discs or files, some are from Ebay or similar, some are personal collections of the team, and some material is sent in from users of the site (I know at least some extras have come in that way).

The OP asked about giving GOG his collection of boxed games, so that they may (perhaps) make digital packages of them and eventually release them.
Post edited October 15, 2016 by Maighstir
Posted October 15, 2016
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Breja: Uhm... what? Either I don't get what the OP is actually atalking about, or the OP doesn't really understand what GOG is. Or that last mana potion was spiked.
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Maighstir: GOG collects games in order to have material to make their own digital packages (of course, they can't actually release anything until they get an OK form the publisher, but they grab anything they can get their hands on just in case).
Really? Ok then. I didn't know. I was pretty sure they get what they need from the publishers.
Posted October 15, 2016
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Maighstir: GOG collects games in order to have material to make their own digital packages (of course, they can't actually release anything until they get an OK form the publisher, but they grab anything they can get their hands on just in case).
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Breja: Really? Ok then. I didn't know. I was pretty sure they get what they need from the publishers.
For newer titles, yes, but when it comes to really old titles that may have changed owner a few times, it isn't a certainty that the owner actually have any files.
Posted October 15, 2016
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Dragoon001: Sorry, I meant Warhammer 2: Dark Omen, the sequel to Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat :)
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tburger: (Sigh of relief])

In the meantime googling for DO2 brought me to Dark Omen Expanded 2..I think I'll try it :-)

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Dragoon001: I would sell them if I had the energy to take picture, put on ebay, write a description and ship them, but since my dad died last year around that time I'm caring for my mom 70-80 hours a week. I want to simplify my life as much as possible and get rid of everything I don't immediately need. Less is more is the slogan I chant these days.
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tburger: Yes, that's changes the perspective on what is important in life...I'm very sorry for your loss..

If you want to get rid of your stuff I would still try to sell it in bulk on ebay - you don't have to write extensive description - just take a few hi-res pictures of what you own, add a comment that you prefer personal reception and that's it. Berlin is a big city - with luck you will get rid of all your stuff with one shot.

EDIT: Oh..maybe these guys will help/tip you what to do with your collection.

EDIT2: And these guys here go all over the country and prepare (over 80 so far) exhibitions with old gaming hardware/software. I was on one of such events with my son once they've visited Poznań. The site is in polish - but google translate it and there are plenty of pictures - you will realize what they do.
Thank you for the links. If Juda don't want them for GOG I will definitively contact these guys.
Posted October 15, 2016
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Breja: Uhm... what? Either I don't get what the OP is actually atalking about, or the OP doesn't really understand what GOG is. Or that last mana potion was spiked.
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Maighstir: GOG collects games in order to have material to make their own digital packages (of course, they can't actually release anything until they get an OK form the publisher, but they grab anything they can get their hands on just in case). Some are from publishers sending them discs or files, some are from Ebay or similar, some are personal collections of the team, and some material is sent in from users of the site (I know at least some extras have come in that way).

The OP asked about giving GOG his collection of boxed games, so that they may (perhaps) make digital packages of them and eventually release them.
Like Maighstir said. It was sometime ago, on a PC game magazine site I don't remember, I watched a behind the scene report and vist to GOG. They showed how their team of hackers reverse engineere games where the source code was lost, but also their games vault. They guy from GOG said how users from all around the world sent them games, and how that helped to restore much lost content, especially those extras that often came with the games back then.

That gave me the idea to give my collection to GOG, if I don't have the strength left to sell them. They can add those old games to their collection what is missing and for what is worth give away the new games to people that care. At least I think GOG respect games as an art form as I do.
Post edited October 15, 2016 by Dragoon001
Posted October 15, 2016
You are in Berlin - did you know there is a

Computerspielemuseum ?

I feel with you - the decision to part with a collection can be bitter and stressful; I'm looking for somebody who'll take my library with about 10 000 books, complete with dust and cobwebs...
Posted October 16, 2016
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gixgox: You are in Berlin - did you know there is a

Computerspielemuseum ?

I feel with you - the decision to part with a collection can be bitter and stressful; I'm looking for somebody who'll take my library with about 10 000 books, complete with dust and cobwebs...
Which kind of books? And give me a hint with the Postleitzahl ;) (first 2 or 3)

Edit: I like books ;)
Post edited October 16, 2016 by Goodaltgamer
Posted October 16, 2016
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Breja: Really? Ok then. I didn't know. I was pretty sure they get what they need from the publishers.
Normally that is probably the case, but often due to the lapse of time and the passing of assets and IP from one company to another, original assets are lost, original things like maps, and other bonus goodies are lost including even things like manuals. So a company might hold the legal rights to a particular game and anything related to it but no longer physically possess individual physical items that were produced for the game in the past, including old media, manuals/maps/etc.

Sometimes GOG locates ancient original copies of some of the games on Ebay or some customer owns a game and makes high resolution scans of the manual or other content and sends it to GOG. As long as GOG can communicate with the game publisher and any other relevant rights owners to discuss any such content they manage to vacuum up over the Internet, they just need the legal go-ahead to copy it and provide it with the version of the game they are selling. We've got a lot of bonus goodies, manuals, some additional language support for some games, maps, soundtracks and other items this way over time.

The important factors seem to be obtaining legal original copies of the content/assets somehow, and getting legal approval to distribute it. If someone donates them a bunch of games in authentic form, they may end up with various manuals/goodies they did not have and that the current publisher/owner no longer has.
Posted October 16, 2016
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Breja: Really? Ok then. I didn't know. I was pretty sure they get what they need from the publishers.
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skeletonbow: Normally that is probably the case, but often due to the lapse of time and the passing of assets and IP from one company to another, original assets are lost, original things like maps, and other bonus goodies are lost including even things like manuals. So a company might hold the legal rights to a particular game and anything related to it but no longer physically possess individual physical items that were produced for the game in the past, including old media, manuals/maps/etc.

Sometimes GOG locates ancient original copies of some of the games on Ebay or some customer owns a game and makes high resolution scans of the manual or other content and sends it to GOG. As long as GOG can communicate with the game publisher and any other relevant rights owners to discuss any such content they manage to vacuum up over the Internet, they just need the legal go-ahead to copy it and provide it with the version of the game they are selling. We've got a lot of bonus goodies, manuals, some additional language support for some games, maps, soundtracks and other items this way over time.

The important factors seem to be obtaining legal original copies of the content/assets somehow, and getting legal approval to distribute it. If someone donates them a bunch of games in authentic form, they may end up with various manuals/goodies they did not have and that the current publisher/owner no longer has.
I just wish I still had some of my oldest games from the 90s. It would have been much better to give them to GOG then to simply misplace them like I apparently have done. Then again, if I still had them, I probably wouldn't be willing to part with them :D
Posted October 16, 2016
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OldOldGamer: And digital games are, to me, worthless. They exist today, but will be gone tomorrow.
We're talking about computer games here, right? They're all digital.
But I'm sure you mean downloadable games, that are not on tape/cartridge/floppy/CD/DVD/Blu ray-ROM.

If your GOG games are gone tomorrow, you should've invested in a better backup system.
DRM'ed (online activation) downloadable games on the other hand can indeed be gone tomorrow. But so can games on physical media. Floppies stop working all the time, and I've even had 2 CD-ROMs that called it a day.
That said, I have a collection of around 300 boxed games - but they're all also archived on hard disks, just in case.
Posted October 16, 2016
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tinyE: Give them to the homeless.
No shit: I know a homeless guy who has an iPad! He's on Facebook, posts lots of pictures and talks to a lot of people there. Most of them visit him every few weeks and pay him a warm meal, give him some cigarettes, or some money. You rarely see him "begging" on the streets, because he's doing this all online oO
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