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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!
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GOG.com: Stop Killing Games
Please support the Stop Killing Games campaign!
EU Petition
UK Petition (Renewed)
More ways to take action here
Post edited 9 hours ago by SargonAelther
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Hoping you expand this program to rescue games from legal limbo like No One Lives Forever series.

There are also a lot of games that have been made free by the original IP owners that are long since forgotten that could get new life in this program.

Will also mention the Psygnosis game catalog that Sony is sitting right now as Lemmings is a game that deserves preservation.
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wolfsite: Will also mention the Psygnosis game catalog that Sony is sitting right now as Lemmings is a game that deserves preservation.
We need Drakan: Order of The Flame
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GOG.com: Stop Killing Games
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SargonAelther: Please support the Stop Killing Games campaign!
EU Petition
UK Petition (Renewed)
More ways to take action here
+1, worthy efforts
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wolfsite: Will also mention the Psygnosis game catalog that Sony is sitting right now as Lemmings is a game that deserves preservation.
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SargonAelther: We need Drakan: Order of The Flame
Yes please
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Please bring back Chronicles of Riddick!
Post edited 9 hours ago by koosa_pl
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Gog supplying all original patched up, non stripped DOS games when?

.....oh wait....that requires actual preservation intent.
So, what's the next game to return from the abyss?
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Shmacky-McNuts: Gog supplying all original patched up, non stripped DOS games when?

.....oh wait....that requires actual preservation intent.
I feel like most people care about the keeping the valued alive when comes to preservation.

What I mean by that is making run on modern systems. Haha
Post edited 9 hours ago by Syphon72
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Good to see you take part in this very important mission. Unfortunately you still have some content locked behind the infamous "My Rewards" program which is essentially a DRM that works exactly against preservation. And that comes from the company that owns GOG. Having such abomination greatly lowers your credibility and gets you closer to hipocricy.
Post edited 9 hours ago by thorough_gaming
Here comes the flood gate.
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Shmacky-McNuts: Gog supplying all original patched up, non stripped DOS games when?

.....oh wait....that requires actual preservation intent.
Maybe, just maybe that's not always or rather, in most cases simply not possible unfortunately, due to certain parts or components of the original release, like localisations, manuals or in case of DOS games, certain sound/audio options not legally clearable for a commercial re-release.

We're seeing this all the time when certain localisations are missing, manuals are absent or a certain release version with better graphics or crisper sound is not provided.
Simply because the respective rights holders for these specific parts or components did not give their thumbs up.
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thorough_gaming: Good to see you take part in this very important mission. Unfortunately you still have some content locked behind the infamous "My Rewards" program which is essentially a DRM that works exactly against preservation. And that comes from the company that owns GOG. Having such abomination greatly lowers your credibility and gets you closer to hipocricy.
Well tbh GOG is at least trying (there's always room for improvement here) - even with CDP and CDPR not being of any help (or even worse).
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thorough_gaming: Good to see you take part in this very important mission. Unfortunately you still have some content locked behind the infamous "My Rewards" program which is essentially a DRM that works exactly against preservation. And that comes from the company that owns GOG. Having such abomination greatly lowers your credibility and gets you closer to hipocricy.
I wish I would not have to agree ... but I do. Keeping DRM IN ANY FORM is unacceptable if you REALLY are taking this effort seriously. Otherwise it is just marketing bla bla.