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Posted April 27, 2012
I have purchased several GoG games and I think the site is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but how can any self-respecting 'old games' site not include the Quake series?
This baffling to me as that series is one of the most popular FPS of all time.

Are there licensing issues preventing you from selling them?
Posted April 27, 2012
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ccvortex: Are there licensing issues preventing you from selling them?
Long story short: yes.
Posted April 27, 2012
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ccvortex: I have purchased several GoG games and I think the site is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but how can any self-respecting 'old games' site not include the Quake series?
This baffling to me as that series is one of the most popular FPS of all time.

Are there licensing issues preventing you from selling them?
Nope, ID stills sells it on their website. I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Posted April 27, 2012
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ccvortex: Are there licensing issues preventing you from selling them?
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Darling_Jimmy: Long story short: yes.
How come? All Quake games are sold on steam without a problem.
Posted April 27, 2012
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Darling_Jimmy: Long story short: yes.
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keeveek: How come? All Quake games are sold on steam without a problem.
But GOG doesn't have a license to sell them.
Posted April 27, 2012
Yes. But it's hardly "licensing issue" like it is with System Shock for example.

It's just they don't have agreement because:
a) they can't offer a good deal to ID
b) ID can't offer a good deal to them.
Posted April 27, 2012
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keeveek: Yes. But it's hardly "licensing issue" like it is with System Shock for example.

It's just they don't have agreement because:
a) they can't offer a good deal to ID
b) ID can't offer a good deal to them.
But what else would you call it? (And I think Bethesda owns the rights now).
Posted April 27, 2012
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ccvortex: I have purchased several GoG games and I think the site is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but how can any self-respecting 'old games' site not include the Quake series?
This baffling to me as that series is one of the most popular FPS of all time.

Are there licensing issues preventing you from selling them?
Basically iD hasn't licensed. But the Steam version is basically DRM free once you download your copy. I got my second copy that way because it was the cheapest way of getting iD's later works.
Posted April 27, 2012
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keeveek: Yes. But it's hardly "licensing issue" like it is with System Shock for example.

It's just they don't have agreement because:
a) they can't offer a good deal to ID
b) ID can't offer a good deal to them.
I was not suggesting licensing is a seemingly complex and impossible situation like System Shock. Gog is currently not licensed to sell Quake. Ipso facto; licensing issue.
Posted April 27, 2012
I love people with absolutely no sense of the business stuff behind games. Honestly... it's so gloriously naive. I wish I were one of them.

This is not a joke post.
Posted April 27, 2012
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StingingVelvet: I love people with absolutely no sense of the business stuff behind games. Honestly... it's so gloriously naive. I wish I were one of them.

This is not a joke post.
-I can download it for free legally, why should I buy it?

-Legally free?

- Yes, it has been released as Abandonware.

....

If I would get a GOG everytime I read this. ..
Posted April 27, 2012
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StingingVelvet: I love people with absolutely no sense of the business stuff behind games. Honestly... it's so gloriously naive. I wish I were one of them.

This is not a joke post.
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SimonG: -I can download it for free legally, why should I buy it?

-Legally free?

- Yes, it has been released as Abandonware.
I've read quite a few RPG Codex threads that have this exact thing in them over and over again.
Posted April 27, 2012
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SimonG: If I would get a GOG everytime I read this. ..
...you'd reread it dozens of times.
Posted April 27, 2012
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SimonG: If I would get a GOG everytime I read this. ..
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grviper: ...you'd reread it dozens of times.
So what?

;-P
Posted April 27, 2012
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keeveek: Yes. But it's hardly "licensing issue" like it is with System Shock for example.

It's just they don't have agreement because:
a) they can't offer a good deal to ID
b) ID can't offer a good deal to them.
That's crap.
ID are selling their entire damn collection on steam for like 70$, they would actually get more dough by selling them in smaller packs DRM-free on GOG.

Also, I'm quite nostalgic about Commander Keen.
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