Posted October 22, 2024
If someone has all their old PC systems (MS-DOS (X.0), Win 1.0 - 3.1 - 95 - XP - 7 - 8 (and whatever else they may have used inbetween)), still sitting in a working state at home, they don't need GOG.
They have all that's necessary, to run the old games, which were programmed for and supported by those old OSs.
(I'm assuming, of course, that they own the games in their original form)
And what makes you think that everyone with over a dozen hundred GOG games would have no problems with keeping up with the constant release of updates for those games, especially if one happens to be very adamantly against the idea of having to backup every update for who knows how long it takes for them to get around to test it properly enough to determine which of them they actually wanted to backup, as obviously the increased time need of for maintaining a lot bigger set of backup disks could easily end up with robbing what little time they have for actually enjoying playing their games?
Also the cost of replacing old HDDs periodically and upgrading them to bigger ones is coming of from our gaming budget, so GOG probably should consider if just maybe it might be better for everybody if GOG would turn any actually relevant older installers as unsupported extras so that their more backwards compatibility oriented customers would not be forced to leave a download script running all the time and backing up a lot more data than they actually need?
And one more point, if customer A bought this or that game from here over a decade ago while those games still were compatible with [insert OS] and customer B can still buy that exact same game from here now, wouldn't it be more fair if both of them can still download the last compatible version for that OS rather than the time of purchase determining who has the option to download that version?
