No One Lives Forever.

Preservation is such important work and ingrained in GOG's DNA. THANKS! What bothers me, however, is the heavy reliance on Windows in order to play these classics.

I've been with GOG from the very beginning.
I've never seen a company more dedicated to ensuring that I own, and have access to my games.

Thank you GOG and to your partners for your hard work and perseverance.
For the record, from last year, I was most happy to see the Resident Evil series return in its original form. Mostly, due to my personal nostalgia and memories of that series. Honestly, though, for this past year I was excited to see all of these great games release on my favourite store front.

I, for one, will always support your efforts.

I can't wait to see what is in store over the next 17 yrs.
Keep up the great work.

Cheers.

We love our old games =)

Yes, count me in as support.....

And once the time arrive when we all have super emulators installed with windows, we really can start treating those everlasting impressions for what they were truly worth

I would love to see this game back on GOG. Unfortunately, I was unable to claim a copy at the time when it was free before it left the GOG catalogue (as I've been told by some users in the community).

In any case, I have played the 2004 version titled ‘’The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay‘’. The 2009 version titled ‘’The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena‘’ I haven't played it yet. But I'm told it improves on the 2004 version in many ways.

It would be a great success to be able to get this and other games that have been removed from GOG's catalogue back. For example: the Colin McRae games are very good games of a great saga that should be preserved and made known to new generations of gamers.

Edit.- Colin McRae Rally PC - Gameplay.

That's not all the preservation process also requires that the data (source code etc) itself is stored on silent data corruption resistant or immune file systems. If the digitised data isn't stored on such filesystems then it's all for naught.

As when the data becomes corrupt the preserved games become not able to be used, maintained, updated and thus lost, in time due to incompatibilities (obsolesce). I hope CDProjekt Red (GOG sp. z.o.o.) are using filesystems which are protected against this such as OpenZFS (via TrueNAS or other ZFS based software, including FreeBSD).

It's not an issue so much for the game player's system from gaming point of view, but from the preserving company's position its pretty much vital. As uncorrupted files are required in order to keep it working on modern systems (hardware and software).

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, from 2006. Microsoft's sitting on it.

Thank you for your efforts. I've started reaquiring older games simply because they're being preserved by you. A lot of hours of my life and good memories wrapped up in many of them.

2024 has shown that as a storefront, you can't do much without having publishers / right holders on board. Without them on your side, this is nothing but a marketing gimmick.

Thanks for all your hard work. Signed the UK petition.

For me i would love to see Midwinter series or the original Elite.

According to what some users have told me, the game was given away for free on GOG before being released from the catalogue. If this is not the case, I apologise for not corroborating the information better before commenting. Thanks for the clarification.

As much as I laud your efforts to keep games playable on modern systems, to me video game preservation means making sure everyone has, at the very least, access to games (in their original form).
It's great that I personally can still download the Warcraft games (legally), but when everyone is dead and buried who were or are lucky enough to snatch these games in time and all future "good old games" whose rights expire, then what?

I have a different definition for "forever"

Indeed, this bashing GOG over alleged half-arsed preservation efforts because their re-releases are not 1:1 identical to the original release from way back when I think too isn't exactly justified.

Especially when GOG can only work with what's provided to them by the developers/publishers. If something is missing and/or (intentionally) excluded (like the aforementioned legally tangled/rights-locked localisations included with the original initial release) it's more likely if not definitely something the respective developer/publisher is to be blamed for, rather than GOG.

In the end a non-identical but at least playable from beginning to end re-release is still better than no re-release at all, no?

I love Internet Archive(donated $10) and I am happy you two cooperate.

And yeah good bookcases : )

Go on! ^°

You're both sort of right: it was used as a reward for spending a certain amount during a specific major sale promo back in 2015. The only reason I got a copy from that event (not having gotten anywhere near the required spending threshold for that game myself) was that GOG did the usual giveaway thing where people who unlocked one of those games, but already owned it, got a code to give away instead, and I later happened to snag one of the codes such people were still offloading in these forums shortly before the codes expired. But, yeah, it wasn't ever properly free, that I know of.