Later: An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442834 - March 2026 (146 comments)
Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
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Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
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Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#2OpenTTD with its beyond clunky UI has a special spot in my heart.
There is even an Android version with the same very much not touch friendly (but somewhat customizable) UI.
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#3This seems quite positive to me: Clearly the rightsholders are not being total jerks since they're happy to allow an OpenTTD bundle, and the original game is available with modern fixes as well.
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#4I like Simutrans more because the cargo and passengers have destinations in mind.
TTD and OpenTTD do not which incentivizes mechanisms to dump everyone at the edge of the map.
Aside from that they're both transport games with bad UIs.
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#5It would be nice if someone could provide some explanation as to why this situation is necessary. Did Atari's lawyers go full tilt?
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#6Obviously having OpenTTD available for free on Steam would jeopardize Atari's paid rerelease of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, so I think this is a good compromise. Hopefully they rigged it up so the assets from Transport Tycoon Deluxe get picked up automatically by OpenTTD when you install the bundle. I also hope that Atari will be sharing some of the revenue from the bundle with the OpenTTD team as part of this arrangement. They've spent the last 20+ years adding nice quality of life features and keeping the game playable, and I think they deserve to be rewarded for that effort. Going back to stock TTD after playing OpenTTD feels like a massive downgrade, like going from vim to BSD vi.
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#7This seems quite positive to me: Clearly the rightsholders are not being total jerks since they're happy to allow an OpenTTD bundle, and the original game is available with modern fixes as well.
More likely they were jerks and blackmailed openttd into bundle on the threat of forcing them off steam altogether.
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#8This seems quite positive to me: Clearly the rightsholders are not being total jerks since they're happy to allow an OpenTTD bundle, and the original game is available with modern fixes as well.
More likely they were jerks and blackmailed openttd into bundle on the threat of forcing them off steam altogether.
Yep. There is no being nice in the business of copyright. But to be fair, they’ve owned the original base game assets.
Not to mention it’s a reverse engineered version of the base game.
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#9I like Simutrans more because the cargo and passengers have destinations in mind. TTD and OpenTTD do not which incentivizes mechanisms to dump everyone at the edge of the map. Aside from that they're both transport games with bad UIs.
OpenTTD has the `cargodist` option which simulates reality more closely. Passengers enter stations with a destination in mind and will transfer at other stations.
Re: Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
#10This seems quite positive to me: Clearly the rightsholders are not being total jerks since they're happy to allow an OpenTTD bundle, and the original game is available with modern fixes as well.
> If you already own OpenTTD on Steam, nothing changes. You’ll continue to receive game updates as usual. If you ever need to re-download the game, the game will remain in your Steam library.
This part of the announcement was nice, too. It would suck if existing users had it deleted from their libraries.