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Posted May 09, 2012
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thespian9099: Assassin's Creed, for example: I would not have ever bought with his always online-DRM (or any other DRM, but this case is especially annoying),
The first Assassin's Creed (which is sold here) never had always-on DRM, nor any kind of online activation.That was the reason for why I only bought the first game.

But I see your point and I agree.
Posted May 09, 2012
SNG (Shitty Newish Games) just doesn't sound as good, and yet it's appropriate for the likes of Sensible Soccer 2006. Of course SOG or COG (Shitty Old Games and Crappy Old Games) sound all right, but I'm not sure it's a good way to go. So I figure it's worth sticking to the GOG name.
Posted May 09, 2012
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thespian9099: Assassin's Creed, for example: I would not have ever bought with his always online-DRM (or any other DRM, but this case is especially annoying),
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Alexrd: The first Assassin's Creed (which is sold here) never had always-on DRM, nor any kind of online activation.That was the reason for why I only bought the first game.

But I see your point and I agree.
You're right (my memory has played me again). It is the second part that had that kind of DRM. But I think it's likely that eventually end up coming to GOG, I have not completely ruined my argumentation, I guess ;-)
Post edited May 09, 2012 by thespian9099
Posted May 09, 2012
Even the "Good" part wasn't really accurate for a bunch of the Old games....
Posted May 09, 2012
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GameRager: As for getting games to run, well they can't use community fixes without said author's permission.......GOG would possibly have to either get permission to use such fixes or create their own. And those are only some of the issues that could arise with getting non-dos GOGs to run on newer OSs.
I dunno about that. They've used 3rd party no cd cracks in the past, maybe they asked representatives of the underground scene for permission but I doubt it.
Posted May 09, 2012
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Gazoinks: I always just pronounce it Gog. Like God with a g.
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hedwards: That's because it was an acronym and that's how you're supposed to typically pronounce acronyms. I think though that the backpedaling on the we weren't really an old games company was a bit much though.

However not as egregious as Zecco, which stood for Zero Commissions, completely dropping the zero commission and claiming that it was always a part of the plan. When they had been lying to the clients for a long time about their plans prior to that.
I don't think it was because they weren't making money I think they just came to the conclusion since they managed so well of Witcher 2 on GOG they might as well just specialize in DRM gaming with lots of extras.
I just consider Steam as Asda, and GOG as marks and spencers (don't read into that analogy to much XD) you get games cheap of steam, but GOG just offer that extra air of quality.
Posted May 09, 2012
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weker: ...since they managed so well of Witcher 2 on GOG they might as well just specialize in DRM gaming...
DRM-Free gaming, you blasphemous one! :D
Post edited May 09, 2012 by thespian9099
Posted May 09, 2012
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kalirion: Even the "Good" part wasn't really accurate for a bunch of the Old games....
"Good" can be considered a subjective term, in my own small opinion...
Posted May 09, 2012
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kalirion: Even the "Good" part wasn't really accurate for a bunch of the Old games....
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JudasIscariot: "Good" can be considered a subjective term, in my own small opinion...
So can "Old". So can "Game" in some cases. What does that leave us with?

If you're calling something like Simon the Sorcerer 3D "Good", you're definitely going against the crowd on that one.
Posted May 09, 2012
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serpantino: I dunno about that. They've used 3rd party no cd cracks in the past, maybe they asked representatives of the underground scene for permission but I doubt it.
Cracks are released to the public to be used to fix games. The crackers are fully aware that their works will be circulated and even used to help distribute other authors' works (i.e. the games the cracks fix) without those authors' permissions. I'm sure some groups might be miffed about not getting accreditation but overall GOG's use is reasonably in-line with the purposes for which the cracks were released in the first place. GOG is rather up-front about the fact that they use cracks when necessary and I see this practice as a good thing.
Posted May 09, 2012
GOG was Good Old Games?

I always thought it stood for Geriatric Old Grannies :(
Posted May 09, 2012
Sure is that I'd find less and less interesting releases on GOG, with all these new games.

They never said that they didn't plan to change their customers base, alongside their products types...
Post edited May 09, 2012 by OldOldGamer
Posted May 09, 2012
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Barefoot_Monkey: Cracks are released to the public to be used to fix games. The crackers are fully aware that their works will be circulated and even used to help distribute other authors' works (i.e. the games the cracks fix) without those authors' permissions. I'm sure some groups might be miffed about not getting accreditation but overall GOG's use is reasonably in-line with the purposes for which the cracks were released in the first place. GOG is rather up-front about the fact that they use cracks when necessary and I see this practice as a good thing.
Surely this would apply to alot of 3rd party fixes too though... that's my point.
Posted May 09, 2012
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JudasIscariot: "Good" can be considered a subjective term, in my own small opinion...
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kalirion: So can "Old". So can "Game" in some cases. What does that leave us with?

If you're calling something like Simon the Sorcerer 3D "Good", you're definitely going against the crowd on that one.
While I did hear of the hate directed towards Simon the Sorcerer 3D, I haven't played the game myself and thus can't say much about it.
Posted May 09, 2012
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JudasIscariot: "Good" can be considered a subjective term, in my own small opinion...
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kalirion: So can "Old". So can "Game" in some cases. What does that leave us with?

If you're calling something like Simon the Sorcerer 3D "Good", you're definitely going against the crowd on that one.
Old isn't really that subjective normally. It's when they started releasing games that were only a few years old and watering it down that things started their slow slide away from classic gaming.

There is some subjectivity, but 3 year old games were never particularly old and you can usually still find and run them without too much trouble.
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