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Hootie Hoo posted:I'm really hoping that etherlords makes it to GOG at some point... They're both on Impulse already, so I'm not sure they'd get the GOG treatment. Merrill Grinch fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jul 28, 2009 |
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Merrill Grinch posted:They're both on Impulse already, so I'm not sure they'd get the GOG treatment. woah... I never knew!
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I'm having a lot of difficulty downloading Descent 1 + 2 using Firefox, and I'd prefer not to download their installer. + Nevermind, biting the bullet. Tough to get a 500 MB file in one go. ++ And now I can't login, even with the correct info. What's going on here ThatsMyBoye fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jul 29, 2009 |
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Jul 29, 2009 00:24
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Their installer doesn't install anything for itself. It just installs the game.
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Jul 29, 2009 06:30
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You know what Good Old Games needs to get? Fuckin' Anachronox, that's what.
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Jul 29, 2009 08:38
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You know what game also needs a sequel? Fuckin' Anachronox, that's what. One of the best PC games ever.
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GOG Twitter account confirms that Lords of the Realm is released tomorrow. Edit: Also Lords of the Realm II. Athletic Footjob fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jul 29, 2009 |
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Jul 29, 2009 21:36
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FuriousGeorge posted:You know what Good Old Games needs to get? Syndicate?  Seriously, please... 
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Blodskur posted:Edit: Also Lords of the Realm II. fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff and that's a buy.
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Jul 30, 2009 07:12
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The Machine posted:fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff Here you go! http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/lords_of_the_realm_royal_edition/
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Jul 30, 2009 11:19
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Charlie Mopps posted:Some of the turn-based strategy games like Disciples 2 or Jagged Alliance would work. Or maybe an adventuregame like Broken Sword. Disciples II has been entertaining me for some hours now, recommended for anyone wanting a straight forward strategy-light turnbased game.
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xarph posted:Syndicate? I've been itching for some Age of Wonders lately
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Blodskur posted:Here you go! http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/lords_of_the_realm_royal_edition/ drat, I loved Lords of the Realm back in the day, but by the time I had a PC able to play the sequel I had long forgotten it. Bought. Now to go watch my grain stocks get eaten by rats again and again and again and....
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Jul 30, 2009 15:45
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I've never played LOTR but i'm intrigued by it. Does it only consist of scenarios or is there some sort of free build or skirmish mode thingy in it?
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Jul 30, 2009 15:48
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Gamersgate has The guild gold edition for a bit less then 3 euro's at the moment, which is a bit cheaper than the 9.99 Gog.com asks for it.
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Charlie Mopps posted:Gamersgate has The guild gold edition for a bit less then 3 euro's at the moment, which is a bit cheaper than the 9.99 Gog.com asks for it. I can't speak for the Gamersgate version, but the GoG version is wrapped really well. Despite reports that it can be buggy, I've only had it crash on me once. I would get an opinion on how the GG version works considering the games infamous buginess.
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Jul 30, 2009 16:54
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Just got an email telling me that Toca 3 and Colin McRae 2005 will no longer be available to download at the end of August and October, respectively.
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Jul 30, 2009 17:46
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royallthefourth posted:Just got an email telling me that Toca 3 and Colin McRae 2005 will no longer be available to download at the end of August and October, respectively. That also includes all of their additional content too, so you should download that while you're at it.
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Jul 30, 2009 17:49
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Did they ever give any reason for getting rid of them in the first place?
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Hairball posted:Did they ever give any reason for getting rid of them in the first place? The licensing agreement with the publisher expired and they couldn't agree on a renewal.
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royallthefourth posted:Just got an email telling me that Toca 3 and Colin McRae 2005 will no longer be available to download at the end of August and October, respectively. Came here to post about this. Here's the full e-mail: Good Old Games.com posted:Dear GOG.com Customer, Gonna put this in the OP too. This really sucks because I like the Steam-esque "unlimited downloads anytime, anywhere". Looks like I have some backup DVDs to make for Colin and TOCA. =/ TOCA 3 is still on Steam, too. I wonder if it'll get pulled from there as well.
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FearOfABlackKnob posted:I've never played LOTR but i'm intrigued by it. Does it only consist of scenarios or is there some sort of free build or skirmish mode thingy in it? Yes it has a free build mode. You can think of the Total War series as a spiritual successor to LOTR - turn based strategy with battle mode as RTS. *edit* from what I can remember, you can't just have a battle mode... but I may be mistaken, it's been years since I've played *edit 2* Just installed, there's a skirmish mode for battles only in LOTR 2  (none for LOTR 1)
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BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:The licensing agreement with the publisher expired and they couldn't agree on a renewal. It's not the publisher, it's the car manufacturers.
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Charles Martel posted:TOCA 3 is still on Steam, too. I wonder if it'll get pulled from there as well.
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That blows re: TOCA 3. My current rig is definitely getting creaky and I know I'll be replacing it probably next year; it sucks that I have to archive the game's installer myself. That said .. signed up for mozy.com last month (unlimited online backup) so I can just download the installer, point the mozy client at it, and let Amazon S3 store it for as long as I keep using mozy.
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Hahahah, I figured there was going to be a shitstorm on their forums because of this, and sure enough, there's a thread about this problem that's at three pages and counting with gems such as this:Oldski from GOG posted:We're sorry things have turned out this way. There was no intention to mislead anyone, and the reason we didn't tell you earlier is really that we were hoping to have this resolved before the time came. quote:Now this I have a problem with. You mean to say that you knew, but you hoped to have it fixed? You've always been honest with us, what the hell were you thinking? Serious breach of trust, GOG! His emphasis, not mine. How DARE you breach our trust, GOG! Even though you gave us the latest versions of 2 high-quality racing games for $5 each without the wholly loving retarded STARFORCE protection on them along with a nice collection of extras, you still dropped the ball! How can we trust you again?! I, for one, am not please by this turn of events! Blah Blah Blah Nerdrage Blah Blah Blah... One guy even went so far as to demand that if they were taking those games off of their servers to let him exchange them for 2 other games free of charge.  Just back the loving games up to a few blank DVDs and be thankful you don't have to get around STARFORCE anymore. It's an isolated incident; it's not the end of the world. Jesus, people.
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The ignorant also tends to be the loudest. It's unfortunate that GOG has to deal with them.
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To be fair, I don't really understand how any licensing agreement can make it so people who already bought a game can no longer access it ever. Steam doesn't do this, I don't think any game they have has been permanently removed from their service, even the games no longer for sale. Every game they've ever had is still downloadable by people who bought them. It's kind of lovely that it wont be the case for GOG.
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Yeah, I like GOG a lot and I appreciate that their balls are in a vise, but the terms the games were sold under were that the game would be redownloadable from the purchaser's account in perpetuity. To change that later seems questionable, even if it's not their fault and it's easy to work around.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:To be fair, I don't really understand how any licensing agreement can make it so people who already bought a game can no longer access it ever. Steam doesn't do this, I don't think any game they have has been permanently removed from their service, even the games no longer for sale. Every game they've ever had is still downloadable by people who bought them. It probably has something to do with the lack of DRM. Publishers are probably afraid that if they pull the license and the game is still available for DL that people that had purchased the game would be more likely to "pirate" it or just hand a copy off to their friends. It seems like just a pitfall of totally DRM-free games.
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guppy posted:To change that later seems questionable, even if it's not their fault and it's easy to work around. Is it though? From the way I'm seeing the situation, Codemasters is enforcing this type of thing because the copyrights from the car manufacturers said so and Codemasters can't do anything about it, and GOG really doesn't have a choice in the matter either. I guess they could file a lawsuit to keep the games up, but that wouldn't be very wise and put the entire service in jeopardy all because a few people on the forums can't burn a few game files to a few DVDs. I'm just glad to have the games and don't see how this is a big issue. I just think it's silly because the GOG Team offers a great service, yet isolated things like this are going to happen, and people are bitching, whining, moaning, and groaning at them about something they have no control over. Now if this started happening all the time to most games on the service, well, I think that's something to get legitimately pissed off about.
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Charles Martel posted:Is it though? From the way I'm seeing the situation, Codemasters is enforcing this type of thing because the copyrights from the car manufacturers said so and Codemasters can't do anything about it, and GOG really doesn't have a choice in the matter either. I guess they could file a lawsuit to keep the games up, but that wouldn't be very wise and put the entire service in jeopardy all because a few people on the forums can't burn a few game files to a few DVDs. I'm just glad to have the games and don't see how this is a big issue. I just think it's silly because the GOG Team offers a great service, yet isolated things like this are going to happen, and people are bitching, whining, moaning, and groaning at them about something they have no control over.
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And aren't they giving people 2-3 months notice on this? Jesus gently caress how retarded can you be. I for one am thankful I bought a large external HD recently. I've been putting all the installer packages on that so I never have to re-DL them.
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Overwined posted:And aren't they giving people 2-3 months notice on this? Jesus gently caress how retarded can you be.
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Overwined posted:And aren't they giving people 2-3 months notice on this? Jesus gently caress how retarded can you be. Same here, I did it because I didn't want to have to download 3GBS of data again. Too bad they are pulling the game off of our accounts, but at least I have the game and no STARFORCE to deal with. If all else fails, I'm sure some pirate has uploaded the GOG version on to the torrent sites already.
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guppy posted:Yeah, I like GOG a lot and I appreciate that their balls are in a vise, but the terms the games were sold under were that the game would be redownloadable from the purchaser's account in perpetuity. To change that later seems questionable, even if it's not their fault and it's easy to work around. If they can't make a contract that lets users download the game forever, then don't make the contract.
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^^^ How the hell can anyone know that? Jesus the site would have ZERO games in it if they only put games in that they were 100% sure would be there forever.guppy posted:And you see how that's not the same as warning them before the purchase? Fuckin' A, it's like talking to a wall. No it IS the same. You still get the game in perpetuity if you aren't a loving moron. I'm sure they were sitting around a boardroom table when they signed the initial contract saying "Should we inform them that we're eventually going to pull this? Nah, it's fun watching nerds with no ability to cope vent on the internet."
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Overwined posted:No it IS the same. You still get the game in perpetuity if you aren't a loving moron. I'm sure they were sitting around a boardroom table when they signed the initial contract saying "Should we inform them that we're eventually going to pull this? Nah, it's fun watching nerds with no ability to cope vent on the internet." And your hard drive dies? Or the dvd you backed it on to gets scratched? Then you're out of luck. poo poo can happen even if you aren't a complete moron. Honestly, if it was in the contract to begin with that they can't continue serving the game if they stop selling it, then they should warn the user, instead of telling us that we'll be able to download it forever. It makes me wonder how many other games we could lose forever that they aren't telling us about. It's really irresponsible of them.
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Overwined posted:^^^ How the hell can anyone know that? Jesus the site would have ZERO games in it if they only put games in that they were 100% sure would be there forever. Then make it 10 years. Clearly the other games on their site don't have the same issue.
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Are we going through this bullshit again? It's in the TOS you agreed upon registration that games might just not stay there. If it's not, then sue them or shut up.
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