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Posted September 14, 2008
Space Hulk and Space Hulk 2 are a pair of great games, low system requirements, lots of fun and suspense. And GW is hanging onto their rights to them for dear life -- maybe they just haven't been presented with a decent alternative.
I wonder, do you think GOG could ever get these two games on board? I'd love to see these updated and running on XP. I'd even be willing to pay GW-style (i.e. 50% of anyone else) prices for them. :-)
I'd be happy just to talk about them as well -- I'm just coming off a jag of trying to get Space Hulk 2 to install on various machines in my house for my son. No dice.
Thanks.
P.S. Oh, and SEAL Team from EA.
Posted September 14, 2008
Space hulk is already in the interest (i heard a bird sing about that a magical place)
If space hulk should come then i demand Space crusade
Posted September 14, 2008
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Rubberduck: Space hulk is already in the interest (i heard a bird sing about that a magical place)
If space hulk should come then i demand Space crusade

Yeah, both are out there as abandonware. I want them legit, and playable on XP. Currently Space Hulk is, but Space Hulk 2 is definitely not. I could pirate most of the games here if I wanted... I prefer to pay for them.
Space Crusade would be sweet!
Posted September 14, 2008
I would deffinently buy them. Anything Warhammer related really.
Posted September 14, 2008
Hmmm would love to play this game :]
Posted September 14, 2008
There are many games that can be got free through abandonware in a semi-legit way, but it's a whole other ball of wax to get licensed products like this sold for profit on a site like GOG. I doubt we'll ever see any Warhammer 40K games available on GOG for this reason. Publishers like Activision/EA etc only license the use of the property they do not own it. Hence an Activision would have to get permission from the Warhammer 40K people to license a title to GOG. Whereas a title like Dark Reign they probably own outright and would not have to get permission from anybody.
It's for the same reason I doubt we'll get any Star War or Star Trek titles or any title based on a book or movie like Discworld or The Chronicles of Riddick, etc. In all these cases the publisher just had a license to produce a game it did not own it outright.
Post edited September 14, 2008 by UK_John
Posted September 15, 2008
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UK_John: There are many games that can be got free through abandonware in a semi-legit way, but it's a whole other ball of wax to get licensed products like this sold for profit on a site like GOG. I doubt we'll ever see any Warhammer 40K games available on GOG for this reason. Publishers like Activision/EA etc only license the use of the property they do not own it. Hence an Activision would have to get permission from the Warhammer 40K people to license a title to GOG. Whereas a title like Dark Reign they probably own outright and would not have to get permission from anybody.
It's for the same reason I doubt we'll get any Star War or Star Trek titles or any title based on a book or movie like Discworld or The Chronicles of Riddick, etc. In all these cases the publisher just had a license to produce a game it did not own it outright.

there is always hope for star wars.
Lucas arts is the distributer. Lucars arts is the creator. And lucasFilm holds the rights to the movie (lucas arts is a sister studio to lucas film)
But you are right about the other stuff
Posted September 15, 2008
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UK_John: There are many games that can be got free through abandonware in a semi-legit way, but it's a whole other ball of wax to get licensed products like this sold for profit on a site like GOG. I doubt we'll ever see any Warhammer 40K games available on GOG for this reason. Publishers like Activision/EA etc only license the use of the property they do not own it. Hence an Activision would have to get permission from the Warhammer 40K people to license a title to GOG. Whereas a title like Dark Reign they probably own outright and would not have to get permission from anybody.
It's for the same reason I doubt we'll get any Star War or Star Trek titles or any title based on a book or movie like Discworld or The Chronicles of Riddick, etc. In all these cases the publisher just had a license to produce a game it did not own it outright.
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Rubberduck: there is always hope for star wars.
Lucas arts is the distributer. Lucars arts is the creator. And lucasFilm holds the rights to the movie (lucas arts is a sister studio to lucas film)
But you are right about the other stuff

You say it yourself with Lucas Films involved I do not see any Star Wars game being available for download from a small company based in Europe for $5.99 with no DRM. That would be Lucas Film's position I am sure. In a couple of years when GOG has 250 titles, including Sierra and Micrprose and Activision, etc there may be a different view at Lucas. I think timing of approach to certain publishers will be important. Too soon and you invite a publisher with a wide range of back catalogue to go it alone or go with Steam.
In general you have to remember some companies will say no just because of the DRM issue! Given the paranoia of PC game publishers!
Posted September 15, 2008
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Rubberduck: there is always hope for star wars.
Lucas arts is the distributer. Lucars arts is the creator. And lucasFilm holds the rights to the movie (lucas arts is a sister studio to lucas film)
But you are right about the other stuff
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UK_John: You say it yourself with Lucas Films involved I do not see any Star Wars game being available for download from a small company based in Europe for $5.99 with no DRM. That would be Lucas Film's position I am sure. In a couple of years when GOG has 250 titles, including Sierra and Micrprose and Activision, etc there may be a different view at Lucas. I think timing of approach to certain publishers will be important. Too soon and you invite a publisher with a wide range of back catalogue to go it alone or go with Steam.
In general you have to remember some companies will say no just because of the DRM issue! Given the paranoia of PC game publishers!

i see what you saying and i agree with you now. i have already waited like 5 years to replay some of the great lucas arts titels. i guess i can wait a couple more years :-/
Posted September 15, 2008
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UK_John: You say it yourself with Lucas Films involved I do not see any Star Wars game being available for download from a small company based in Europe for $5.99 with no DRM. That would be Lucas Film's position I am sure. In a couple of years when GOG has 250 titles, including Sierra and Micrprose and Activision, etc there may be a different view at Lucas. I think timing of approach to certain publishers will be important. Too soon and you invite a publisher with a wide range of back catalogue to go it alone or go with Steam.
In general you have to remember some companies will say no just because of the DRM issue! Given the paranoia of PC game publishers!

I dunno, GW are working on introducing their new 5th edition of 40K, releasing XP-compatible versions of Space Hulk and SH2 for purchase would be really good advertising for them. And GW fans would snap them up. Although I don't know if a UK company would take too kindly to a continental company releasing their games.
Posted September 15, 2008
While I don't think we'll ever be told by GOG 'Games Workshop have told us that we will only get the Warhammer PC games over their dead body!' I do think GOG will surprise us with signed up titles/product ranges with announcements that on one hand we should expect and on the other will always be a great surprise! :)
Post edited September 15, 2008 by UK_John
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