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CymTyr: I don't know about right now, but originally, all the older games on both, worked better out of the box on GOG. Steam at some point I think, started shipping the GOG executables with the GOG fixes in them, but originally they just sold the games as-is.
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dm36: Eh, wouldn't Steam get in trouble if they did that? Or was Valve given permission?
He's just making shit up.
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dm36: Eh, wouldn't Steam get in trouble if they did that? Or was Valve given permission?
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misteryo: He's just making shit up.
No, I'm pretty sure I heard they were selling a lot of old games with the GOG executables. I don't know if that's true or not. There were multiple threads about it on here many years ago.

EDIT: But if you think I just make shit up just to make it up, keep on keeping on.
Post edited June 08, 2019 by CymTyr
I don't know details but I heard that GOG gives the effect of their work to publisher/developer without any restrictions. Sometimes it was a part of negotiations of game release on GOG, sometimes something else cause it.
That is the way how "working" games are published on steam.
All games that use DOSBox
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misteryo: He's just making shit up.
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CymTyr: No, I'm pretty sure I heard they were selling a lot of old games with the GOG executables. I don't know if that's true or not. There were multiple threads about it on here many years ago.

EDIT: But if you think I just make shit up just to make it up, keep on keeping on.
There's probably a whole history of threads talking about this back in the day ready to find if GOG ever had something resembling a working search engine.

After a while games that were 'fixed' by GOG did indeed start leaking to the other platforms as well. This makes perfect sense. They are still the publisher/devs game after all. At best doing so might have given GOG a temporary period of exclusivity but it's not likely a publisher/dev was going to agree to only sell that version on GOG from that point on. The publishers have no reason not to use those fixes at other stores as well.
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CymTyr: No, I'm pretty sure I heard they were selling a lot of old games with the GOG executables. I don't know if that's true or not. There were multiple threads about it on here many years ago.

EDIT: But if you think I just make shit up just to make it up, keep on keeping on.
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Pheace: There's probably a whole history of threads talking about this back in the day ready to find if GOG ever had something resembling a working search engine.

After a while games that were 'fixed' by GOG did indeed start leaking to the other platforms as well. This makes perfect sense. They are still the publisher/devs game after all. At best doing so might have given GOG a temporary period of exclusivity but it's not likely a publisher/dev was going to agree to only sell that version on GOG from that point on. The publishers have no reason not to use those fixes at other stores as well.
Thanks, Pheace. Kind of tired of people implying I'm full of shit around here.
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topolla: I don't know details but I heard that GOG gives the effect of their work to publisher/developer without any restrictions. Sometimes it was a part of negotiations of game release on GOG, sometimes something else cause it.
That is the way how "working" games are published on steam.
That was my recollection, as well. Thanks.
Post edited June 08, 2019 by CymTyr
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misteryo: He's just making shit up.
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CymTyr: No, I'm pretty sure I heard they were selling a lot of old games with the GOG executables. I don't know if that's true or not. There were multiple threads about it on here many years ago.

EDIT: But if you think I just make shit up just to make it up, keep on keeping on.
I apologize.

I was unaware there was even talk about that happening, and I took your wording to mean that you were guessing out of thin air. My fault.
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CymTyr: No, I'm pretty sure I heard they were selling a lot of old games with the GOG executables. I don't know if that's true or not. There were multiple threads about it on here many years ago.

EDIT: But if you think I just make shit up just to make it up, keep on keeping on.
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misteryo: I apologize.

I was unaware there was even talk about that happening, and I took your wording to mean that you were guessing out of thin air. My fault.
You're fine. It's not you, it's stuff other people have said in other threads a few weeks back that doesn't matter.

Sorry for being oversensitive. Have a great day o/