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Posted 5 days ago
2024 was a milestone for Video Game Preservation.

With a plethora of amazing projects accomplished by us and our outstanding partners, we continue the fight to ensure your gaming legacy is safeguarded and will live forever.

Why? Because video games made us who we are today. They shaped our personal lives and had a lasting impact on the world we live in. Preserving them and their stories is of the utmost importance.

Please enjoy the recap of all the efforts made in 2024, created in collaboration with our partners—and, of course, with your support.

It features presentations by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive, Stop Killing Games, The Strong National Museum of Play, Mike Arkin from Argonaut Games, Nightdive Studios, and more!
Posted 5 days ago
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ssling: It was never free.
I got The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for free (instead of 14,09 €) on 2015-11-21.
Posted 5 days ago
Because the OP doesn't include the complete news:

Video Title: "Video Game Preservation Recap | 2024"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8UHWH_FOc4

Closing words:
"Every effort counts, and we know that together, this is just the beginning!
Thank you for being a part of this journey."

Source:
https://www.gog.com/en/news/gog_video_game_preservation_recap_2024
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vv221: I got The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for free (instead of 14,09 €) on 2015-11-21.
Really? What does the receipt says?

Not that I don't believe you, but I don't know how could I missed it, and I can't find any confirmation of such giveaway either.
Posted 5 days ago
A lotta people in here are missing that a big part of preservation is restoration. Not just letting things continue decaying in the state they were found.
Post edited 5 days ago by mqstout
Posted 5 days ago
Soooooo in the interest in authentic restoration, Dosbox Staging when?

Because the original Dosbox is a ticking clock.
Post edited 4 days ago by dnovraD
Posted 5 days ago
For restoration, please bring back both NOLFs (No One Lives Forever)
For remaster - I'd like to Might and Magic series, especially 6-8.
Posted 5 days ago
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Probably the first step in preserving a game is making sure that the version that you are preserving is the latest most up-to-date one. As this is often not the case (see here: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens_v2), perhaps it would be wise to invest some resources now to ensure that publishers and developers keep their games up to date on GOG, so that when you come to preserve those games in the future, you will not find yourself preserving a second class game.
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ssling: Really? What does the receipt says?

Not that I don't believe you, but I don't know how could I missed it, and I can't find any confirmation of such giveaway either.
Not exactly free:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/welcome_to_the_big_fall_sale_a4786
While you're here, grab a few extra games for free by doing your thing and shopping around. The more you spend, the more you'll get back, so when your total spendings exceed $5, $15, and $30, you'll unlock a new game for FREE. They're pretty good ones too:
--System Shock 2 - free for everyone who spends at least $5.
--The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - free for everyone who spends at least $15.
--Banished - free for everyone who spends at least $30.
Posted 4 days ago
Thank you, GOG, for the work that you do in preserving games and making them playable on modern systems to keep them accessible to new audiences, and thank you for being a bastion for DRM-free gaming and game preservation.

In answer to your question, some games I'd like to see brought back to the light of day:
The Myth series (The Total Codex, including The Fallen Lords, Soulblighter, Chimera, Worlds, The Wolf Age, and the extra maps, plugins, and content bundled with The Total Codex release)
Black & White series
Vietcong series
Alien vs Predator 2
Damage Incorporated
Discworld series
The Sims 1 & 2
Future Cop: LAPD
G-Police series
Twisted Metal series
Evil Dead series (Hail to the King, Fistful of Boomstick, & Regeneration)
Prey (2006)
Civilization 1 & 2
Lemmings series
Prince of Persia 1 & 2: The Shadow & The Flame
Crystal Crazy
SimAnt
Posted 4 days ago
I wonder if it'd be worthwhile or not to host the Unreal games here, since Epic gave the "ok" for Internet Archive to host them. Might not be worth the bandwidth usage or/and GOG needs an official "ok" from Epic.
Posted 4 days ago
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MrGrymReaper: 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).
Fully agreed!
Posted 4 days ago
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I wonder how can you preserve games when you can't manage to convince the devs that sells their games on your store to release here the latest updates and all the content...
Some exemples of game I own : where are the final patches for Dex or Edge of Eternity ?
Where are the DLC for The Witch of Fern Island ?
Being a customer on GOG still feel like being a second class customer.
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Vechernyaya: I wonder how can you preserve games when you can't manage to convince the devs that sells their games on your store to release here the latest updates and all the content...
Some exemples of game I own : where are the final patches for Dex or Edge of Eternity ?
Where are the DLC for The Witch of Fern Island ?
Being a customer on GOG still feel like being a second class customer.
The fact is everyone is second class to steam.
Posted 4 days ago
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How many 'preserved' games have new issues and don't play nice with well established community patches? How about source ports? How many different PC configurations did you test when applying your personal fixes? How's that Dragon Age Origins patch working out?

If you actually cared about preservation and not this hollow PR stunt, you'd be pushing devs to keep their games up to date, letting users know when they aren't, and at least trying to get untouched archival versions (or not remove existing ones) of games as bonus goodies. Maybe try unlocking your DRM'd rewards from Cyberpunk too...

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tfishell: I wonder if it'd be worthwhile or not to host the Unreal games here, since Epic gave the "ok" for Internet Archive to host them. Might not be worth the bandwidth usage or/and GOG needs an official "ok" from Epic.
This is something GOG should have pursued already, especially considering they are games that used to be on the store.
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Posted 4 days ago
Frogwares, please bring back your 80 Days game:)
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