What I found funny about this was that Gamespot thought this was worthy of a news headline story. as if it hasn't been released anywhere else before Steam got it.

i really liked SiN ep 1 it was really fun, repeating enemy's yes but design was good for the time. As for there other titles, FAKK2 was genius and very close to Daikatana in world craft.

Their gem is Star Trek: Elite Force II... I loved the first one, and felt the this one was a worthy successor.

Some big publishers may feel:

- older games for a nickel may cause price erosion, also for their new titles

- newer games have higher margins, so they'd rather see people buy their newer games instead of cheaper, older games.

- overall they may feel the resources needed in order to "re-publish" an old game for the small(?) profit margins isn't often worth it. Unless someone like GOG or Night Dive Dave whatever comes to them and does the work for them "for free".

- if there turns out to be high demand for some older games, maybe they feel making a hires remake of it will make that demand even higher, and allow them to sell it more expensive, than if they'd just re-publish the original. Especially on consoles, they seem to resell lots of earlier games again as remakes on each new console generation.

I recall reading articles of EA pondering about this quite a lot, ie. some "alternative" venue for people to play older, classic, EA games. Somehow I read that that maybe they'd like similar system like PS4 apparently will have for older PSOne and PS2 games, ie. you don't run the old games locally on your PS4 anymore, but stream them, akin OnLive.

But at least so far EA seems to have allowed their older stuff to appear on GOG, luckily. Maybe they ditched those "alternative" plans.

What's up with those doom 3 like system requirements?

I don't have an issue with Steam existing at all, but it's scary when people refuse to buy games anywhere else and wait a year for this sucker to come to Steam before buying it. One company running the PC as if it is their platform is just a terrible idea.

We've been around this block so many times though, kind of pointless to rehash. It should hopefully change when Steam gets a real competitor.

Really? I swore I read something saying that his last work at id was Quake 2 design stuff.

The only way I'd rebuy SiN here is if it included the expansion. (And maybe have the modern OS fixes that were in the works before Ritual was shuttered completely.)

So I can hope.

I don't care for Mumbo Jumbo, they stopped Ritual's work to make stuff I don't care about.

When I joined Steam a few years ago, SiN Emergence (and the original) was one of my first purchases. Needless to say, I was saddened when I heard they were bought out and the likelihood of the sequels ever being made was essentially null.

Wake me when Terranigma, Secret of Mana, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, or the countless other Squaresoft/Enix classic titles get announced.

That was a great game, i still have my copy here with the box and everything. The chances of it appearing on GOG are rather slim, though, because it uses the Star Trek IP.

I enjoyed SIN episode 1 as well, but that difficulty scaling thing was completely broken. Thanks to the difficulty scaling, the game became extremely hard for me at the end. I had to resort to cheap camping tactics in order to beat the game (like hiding behind doors to kill those enemies with chainguns before they had a chance to shoot me)

I don't care what Square Enix puts on Steam. I just want Final Fantasy VII on GOG.

If Steam can get the games that are on GOG, then GOG should also get the games that are on Steam. =P

Despite selling some Eidos classics here DRM free Square seems particularly insistent on FF7 being protected. You log in to the damn game like it's an MMO, and it had DRM even before it was on Steam. They've justified this with extra features they won't want to remove, so the likelihood it ever comes here is pretty low.

The best way to play the game is a DRM free emulated PS1 version anyway. Whether you should purchase it first elsewhere is a moral question I leave in your hands.

Trust me, I know all this. It was more wishful thinking on my part than any realistic expectation. Japanese publishers love their DRM, even when the game in question has been pirated for years.

And yeah, it does look like I'll have to grab a used copy. Most likely the PS1 version, since (funnily enough) that would be much easier to get running on an emulator (as a side note, I only emulate games that I legally purchased) than it would be to get the original PC version run on a modern PC.