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The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever(www.gog.com)

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EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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  • Myst
  • Riven
  • Ultima Series, including Ultima Underworld I & II

❤️❤️❤️

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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Ultima Online?

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adr1an@programming.dev
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I played that on a LOTR-themed felucca-only shard, and hosted a runUO server myself for friends later when no one was playing it anymore. Great memories, I kind of enjoyed the “blue vs. red” factions of the early game, like 1999.

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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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Fuck gog. if I need a game to live forever I pirate.

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SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uk
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I think you’ve missed the point.

Yes, they’re looking to continue selling older titles and your point is that pirating / torrenting is free, but GoG are ensuring the game will actually run on a modern machine - the pirated ones will have problems (not even covering the potential malware ridden ones)

I’ve been there, done it, got the t-shirt, the t-shirt faded, got ripped and is now a rag somewhere… this is a good move by GoG.

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baatliwala@lemmy.world
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Sounds like you don’t even know what GOG does?

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btaf45@lemmy.world
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[We still strive to get as many DRM-free titles as possible on GOG, regardless of when they were first released.]

This is why I will always buy a game on GOG rather than Steam if I can.

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FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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Steam is easy and my main app. But I’m going to start shifting to GOG.

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mPony@lemmy.world
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I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The “what kind of person are you” value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.

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db2@lemmy.world
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AceBonobo@lemmy.world
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A lot of incredible games on that list.

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I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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I probably own a significant portion of those games in my GOG account, I’ll double check when I’m home

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