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Posted October 28, 2014
Confirmed.

The day has finally come and the holy grail of classic gaming has arrived on GOG.com. Welcome, Lucasfilm games! You are among friends, here! We're proud to announce our team-up with ©Disney Interactive that allows for the DRM-free release of 20+ classic titles from the cult-classic developer. We know you waited long for this moment, so we want to reunite you with those golden oldies with as little delay as possible. Today, to start with a bang, we are releasing a selection of 6 acclaimed titles from Lucasfilm's most famous gaming franchises, so that the Lucasfilm/Disney catalog on GOG.com is made impressive from day one. Here are the great titles you can get right away:

<i>Star Wars</i>&trade;: X-Wing Special Edition - digital distribution debut, on GOG.com!
<i>Star Wars</i>&trade;: TIE Fighter Special Edition - digital distribution debut, on GOG.com!
Sam &amp; Max Hit the Road (Windows + Mac + Linux!) - digital distribution debut, on GOG.com!
The Secret of Monkey Island&trade;: Special Edition
Indiana Jones&reg; and the Fate of Atlantis&trade; (Windows + Mac + Linux!)
<i>Star Wars</i>&reg;: Knights of the Old Republic

Note that numerous Lucas titles, including 3 from the launch lineup (Star Wars®: X-Wing Special Edition, Star Wars®: TIE Fighter Special Edition, Sam & Max Hit the Road), are available digitally for the first time ever, ready to play with no fuss on modern operating systems. With more fantastic titles headed for our Lucasfilm/Disney catalog, you can expect to see Lucasfilm games popping up frequently on GOG.com in the coming months.

(C) & ™ Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. STAR WARS, INDIANA JONES, SAM & MAX, MONKEY ISLAND and all characters, names, and related properties are trademarks of & (C) Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates.
Posted October 28, 2014
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WARNING: Disney can effectively revoke your license (or make you pay, or make you switch to a new DRM-ed version, or anything else they want) at any time.

From the terms of service you have to agree to:

We may amend these terms. Any such amendment will be effective thirty (30) days following either our dispatch of a notice to you or our posting of the amendment on the Disney Services. If you do not agree to any change to these terms, you must discontinue using the Disney Services.

And by "Disney Services", they mean the software itself:

The Disney Services are our copyrighted property or the copyrighted property of our licensors or licensees

GOG's "You buy it - it's yours" claim on the gog.com front page does not apply to Disney software. Disney's (one-sided "non-contract") terms of use do.

(I am ignoring any arguments about how Disney can't enforce it or about how they wouldn't do that. The fact is their terms of service include this "you can eat shit and like it" clause, and people going along with such terms certainly does nothing to improve the situation.)

Furthermore, in order to ensure you remain in compliance, you have to check their terms of service page for any changes anytime you want to use their software and it's been more than 30 days since the last time you checked. And to anyone thinking of publicly announcing here that they will just ignore any part of these terms of service they don't like, note that entering into a contract with no intent to honor it opens you up to being charged with fraud in many jurisdictions (and Disney's got craploads of lawyers and you will have no anonymity when GOG gets subpoenaed for your identity).
Posted October 28, 2014
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CBabcock: I have been waiting for someone to put out Sam & Max again. They put out some great classics to start, i hope to see Day of the Tentacle include in that list soon.
Now you can get the complete chronicles of Sam And Max all in one place! A great day has come. :)
Posted October 28, 2014
So what's the situation with the Collector's CD-ROM stuff for the X-Wing + Tie-Fighter games? So the DOS versions of both games are only floppy versions (despite X-Wing's gamecard stating that it's the Collector's CD-ROM)?
Posted October 28, 2014
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budejovice: I hope Nordic's catalog is selling well on Steam today! Ha ha. Just kidding. I don't.
Well, if you really are pining for a Jack Keane adventure, go for Monkey Island. It's like Jack Keane, but about a million times better. ;)
Posted October 28, 2014
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TheJadedOne: WARNING: Disney can effectively revoke your license (or make you pay, or make you switch to a new DRM-ed version, or anything else they want) at any time.
How can they make us pay or switch to a DRM version if I have already bought and downloaded the installer? I don't ever have to redownload the installer unless I lose my backup.
Posted October 28, 2014
Absolutely Brilliant! Thank You So Much!
Posted October 28, 2014
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GOG.com: Confirmed.
Sure GOG. Like I'm falling for another one of your goofy pranks.

We all know you love to take the mickey out of us.

As soon as I click on one of those gamecards the screen is going to show the GOG bear saying the webpage is gummied up and can't be found!

Anyway, it's a good thing this isn't true otherwise I'd be forced to spend all my credits in less than 12 parsecs!
Posted October 28, 2014
Is there any specific reason why Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis or Sam & Max Hit the Road are only offered as .deb packages on linux and not tarballs?

Will the tarballs be offered for download in the future?

I ask because I prefer to just "tar -xf" my games into a directory than to deal with package managers and unmet deps.
Post edited October 28, 2014 by Pseudoman
Posted October 28, 2014
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opticq: How can they make us pay or switch to a DRM version if I have already bought and downloaded the installer? I don't ever have to redownload the installer unless I lose my backup.
From my post: "I am ignoring any arguments about how Disney can't enforce it"

That they might not be able to enforce the agreement in some cases does not mean that you would not be in violation of it and does not mean that you would not be guilty of fraud. You might as well ask what's stopping you from pirating any GOG (or other DRM-free) software - the answer's basically the same.
Posted October 28, 2014
There's so many awesome Star Wars games. PLEASE make some work with a Mac!

Looking your way Republic Commando!
Posted October 28, 2014
GOG bear was smiling on me from screen for more than 30 minutes :)
Posted October 28, 2014
These are great, thank you!! Just one question...The Curse of Monkey Island?
Posted October 28, 2014
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opticq: How can they make us pay or switch to a DRM version if I have already bought and downloaded the installer? I don't ever have to redownload the installer unless I lose my backup.
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TheJadedOne: From my post: "I am ignoring any arguments about how Disney can't enforce it"

That they might not be able to enforce the agreement in some cases does not mean that you would not be in violation of it and does not mean that you would not be guilty of fraud. You might as well ask what's stopping you from pirating any GOG (or other DRM-free) software - the answer's basically the same.
Or playing any EA game here, with their terms of service.
Posted October 28, 2014
OMG OMG OMG....*squeals like a little girl*!!

The day is here you can finally buy Lucas Arts games again! Thank you soooo much GOG, you rock!

More to come I see...can't wait!!!
Posted October 28, 2014
Holy s*it. O_O
That's huge, GOG. Huge.
I already own physical copies of most of those games. Multiple copies, in same cases.
But i'm such a huge fan, so i guess i'll buy them all anyway.

On a side note, i think Disney is behaving MUCH MUCH better than anyone expected with Lucasfilm games. First, the Grim Fandango remake, now this.
Now, if they allow Ron Gilbert to make Monkey Island 3, i guess i'll have to formally apologize to them.
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