Didn't notice this one, but fortunately I bought it before.

And, as it was said in the game forum, it 's only temporarily removed.

Thank you GoG for the heads up on this...

I've been wavering on Spellforce and Darkfall for a while...

This has prompted me to pick those up... and given the price grabbed the rest too to ensure I have them in the future....

The whole Gothic2 thing doesn't worry me with regards to TW2 as my plans were for Devine Divinity...

Now to grab all the files plus extras from all the JoWood games....

Ahh, another one of those "up to" sales that contain a few good games and a few rather mediocre ones. I'm never sure what to do with these. I'm not interested in some of these games, but if I buy the ones I like I can get the rest for just a few extra bucks... (less than a dollar per game -- hard to say no to that even if the games are kind of bad)

With this kind of promo, it would be nice to have the option to buy all the games at once for the large discount and then keep some of them for myself and give away those that I'm not interested in.

Once the game is deleted from your account on GOG, the license is revoked. (at least from the publisher's side)

You don't own games from GOG as well as you don't own any game on any online distribution. maybe for you. I've got hunders of boxes, im drowning in them, and i don't want to have any single box anymore.

Yes, my parents have an internet connection. Shock.

wrong topic

And on that note! 8-))
After thinking about getting some of these games since the sale began, I finally got a number of them which have been tempting me for quite a few years. At 60% off, I can't really complain too much if GOG can no longer have these games here for downloading one day. I mean when these games came out most were close to, if not, 50 bucks a pop. Further, since GOG is blissfully DRM free, I don't have to worry about needing GOG to have them still to have access to them. Yes we can all worry about our houses burning down and losing these games, but, seriously, if our homes did burn down, I think losing these games would be down on the bottom of our list of worries. So I wouldn't let a little thing like them not being on GOG anymore deter you from getting some of these jems not as long as you have a way to backup them, no worries! And remember games are supposed to be enjoyed so have fun playing them, and leave your worries at the start menu screen! : )

But not as far as GOG is concerned, hence why they recommend we download JoWood's games before they may be removed and why they state "You buy it, you keep it". From that I assume that their terms with the publisher is something akin to "everyone who buys a game is free to install and play it as long as they have their copy available, even if we need to remove it from the store/shelf".

You don't own any of the boxed games you have, you simply hold a license to use them. Same with GOG, you are given a license to use a game you purchased here. GOG is simply a virtual shop that sells games and the license isn't revoked when they stop distributing particular product. Apart from that, some of the games are licensed to you by their original publisher (eg. Ubisoft).

You can back-up your games on your hard drive, pen drive or even a remote server, provided you are the only person that has an access to the file.

There are a couple more reasons for digital distribution:

1) Environmental/Storage

DVDs, boxes and printed manual both use up natual ressources and take space.

If you can make things as virtual as possible, you help the planet.

Also, it means you don't have to store as much crap, which means more space in your home (for many people, storage is becoming a significant issue, virtual move for intellectual merchandise makes sense).

2) Prices

Using the usual distribution format, you need:

a) Manufacture the DVD, box and manual (material)

b) Ship them to their desired destination (gaz)

c) Store them close to the buyer (some intermediate seller that will have significant operational costs)

This makes a significant overhead cost, which for really cheap products may be bigger than the intellectual value of the product itself!

3) DRM-free

This is is a fallacy.

Technically, they could have DRM-free hard copies. They'd just need to remove the copy-protection from the DVDs.

Also, you can have non DRM-free virtual copies (ie, Steam).

So, I think there are 3 components to what GOG is offering:

a) Virtual Distribution (self-explanatory)

b) DRM-free Distribution (self-explanatory)

c) Persistent Access to Official Version

Point (c) should not be dismissed as it is significant in many ways, one being disaster protection, another being potential to reach the point where hard copie backup becomes unnecessary (not yet realized, but the potential is there) and perhaps most significantly of all, future portability of the purchased game as the official version is kept (hopefully) up-to-date.

Oh, I fully agree. I should have clarified that for me an on-demand aspect of digital distribution is the main point.

As for JoWood, there is not much that GOG (or any other digital distributor for that matter) can do if the new owner of their catalogue cancels the distribution agreement. If it does happen they will have to stop selling JoWood's games and perhaps remove them from servers.

I start to strongly think about this, but now my internet connection has only 512 kbps upload..... Yes, but contrary to the online distribution, the license is attached to the compact disc. And as long as it's not one time licence (like in EA games when you have to register them) you may sell the disc and the box because you are the OWNER of the disc and the box, not the data on it. You can pass this license furher as long as it's not attached to the single person specified by name.

Last hours before the promo ends so Grab those cheap games while you can people!

:)

Do any of these games 'require' a multiplayer key?