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Good Old Games

ArmakuniArmakuni
edited October 2008 in General Chat
Some guy I know told me about this new site, called Good Old Games (GoG). I had a look and it seems pretty cool.

www.gog.com

As you can see, the site isn't 'open' yet.. it's still in the beta stage. But I think this site shows a lot of promise and I hope it will be successful, at least enough to stay up.

Basically, it's a site selling old games.. they already have a few good ones on there but they could certainly use some more classics.
You get the games as downloads, the manuals, often MP3 soundtracks and stuff like that.
But the coolest thing (well, in my opionion anyway) is that the games are going to be DRM free! I'm definitely going to buy a few games from that site, if nothing else then just to support the idea of no DRM.
I already own boxed copies of most of the games they'll offer to start with but I might grab a few anyway.

I really hope they'll start adding some old adventure games on there eventually!

Comments

  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited September 2008
    I was a bit irritated at the way I first found out about this, because several of the early news reports mentioned "Lucasarts adventure games," but it turned out it was just a quote about games they'd like to offer eventually. A bit of a let-down.
  • Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
    edited September 2008
    I thought gog would sell really old games, not just ones made in the late 90's.You can just download Gametap or Steam for those.
  • ZootchZootch
    edited September 2008
    Dr. Zoidberg wrote: »
    I thought gog would sell really old games, not just ones made in the late 90's.You can just download Gametap or Steam for those.

    Can I get Battletoads for the Wii?
  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited September 2008
    Dr. Zoidberg wrote: »
    I thought gog would sell really old games, not just ones made in the late 90's.You can just download Gametap or Steam for those.
    Yeah you can if you want DRM. The cool thing about GoG is that the games will be completely DRM free. That alone is reason enough for me to get games there rather than on some other service.
  • Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
    edited September 2008
    Armakuni wrote: »
    Yeah you can if you want DRM. The cool thing about GoG is that the games will be completely DRM free. That alone is reason enough for me to get games there rather than on some other service.

    What's DRM?
  • MolokovMolokov
    edited September 2008
    DRM = Digital Rights Management. Corporate speak for copy-protection. Some DRM schemes (specific programs etc) can be incredibly invasive and stop the program from actually working, even if you did pay for it.

    Recent infamous example: Some Sony music CDs would install a rootkit on your hard drive if you put them in your computer and installed the player to play the music. It was to prevent you copying the music to your hard drive, but it was an overly invasive DRM scheme and also inadvertantly left your system vunerable to virus/trojan attack which most Antivirus programs couldn't find.

    Needless to say, there was a giant uproar and the rootkit scheme was dropped very quickly. I think there was a class-action lawsuit about it too.

    That's one extreme of DRM. Telltale, with their downloadable games, use a far less intrusive one - all you have to do is register online the first time you play your game each time it's a brand new install, and that will check if you've paid for it. Still, as we have seen in the forums, even that method causes problems for some people. But the Telltale staff is very helpful in getting people past these problems.
  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited September 2008
    Also, I've heard that they will add older games too. A guy from the Dosbox team said they'd contacted them about using Dosbox for older games, so hopefully they'll add old DOS games to the site as well, eventually.
  • MaxFanMaxFan
    edited October 2008
    About how copyright law needs to catch up with technology and who prevents it from doing so, I recommend Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

    Back on topic,

    The public beta is open. Hey, Descent, Earthworm Jim, Die by the Sword. I remember these games, hadn't seen them in years. :)
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited October 2008
    MaxFan wrote: »
    About how copyright law needs to catch up with technology and who prevents it from doing so, I recommend Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
    Know where I can torrent it? ;)

    :D
  • MaxFanMaxFan
    edited October 2008
    hahaha, no :p
    Though he does make fun of his own book having digital distribution issues.
  • xtrmntrxtrmntr Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2008
    As a matter of fact, it *is* available for free from Lessig's own site!

    http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
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