GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
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Re: GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
#2A noble goal, but I'd be shocked if they manage to compete in the preservation realm against Good Old Piracy™.
Re: GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
#3A noble goal, but I'd be shocked if they manage to compete in the preservation realm against Good Old Piracy™.
"Good Old Piracy" does not (always) help much with incompatibilities arising from running on new machines/OSes.
Re: GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
#4Terrific thing!
The FAQ should state explicitly that patron money will only be used for preservation, not put into GOG general revenue, if that is indeed true.
Re: GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
#5Terrific thing! The FAQ should state explicitly that patron money will only be used for preservation, not put into GOG general revenue, if that is indeed true.
Their FAQ is not really clear on that, my feeling looking at this page is that it is more like: this money goes directly in the pocket of GOG, so by helping us to generate more money for us, you are helping (indirectly) the preservation of games as it is what they do.
But I saw nowhere in the FAQ explicitly that this subscription money will only be used to the "active act" of preserving other games.
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#7Emphasis added:
> The GOG Preservation Program is our ongoing effort to save classic games from being lost to time. That means working to secure rights, fixing compatibility so they run hassle-free on modern systems, and even rebuilding missing features so the experience is the best you can get, while staying true to the original.
It still baffles me how the "rights" to a game (or any IP) can be a thing when the company has essentially abandoned it. Like take the Resident Evil example FTA: Launched in 1996, 2000-2023 not available (i.e. not for legal sale). I am a bit of an extremist wrt IP laws, but that just seems so crazy to me that we would provide a legal system to "protect" IP that isn't being used and is just being (essentially) hoarded.
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#8> Why introduce a membership now? Is GOG in financial trouble?
Glad they put this into the FAQ, because that was certainly my first thought, although I'm not sure the answer really assuages my concerns.
You have to admit that the combination of "Original founder buys back GOG from CD Projekt" and then "GOG introduces patron tier" soon thereafter does suggest a company in some financial hardship.
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#9Emphasis added: > The GOG Preservation Program is our ongoing effort to save classic games from being lost to time. That means working to secure rights , fixing compatibility so they run hassle-free on modern systems, and even rebuilding missing features so the experience is the best you can get, while staying true to the original. It still baffles me how the "rights" to a game (or any IP) can be a thing when the com…
Basically it is the problem with GOG also, I think that if you do nothing the game is Abandonware and I don't think that anyone can go after you to use it pirated or whatever, and even distribute it.
Maybe it is shady, but something like that if there is no commercial activity and the IP violation is not enforced for some many times, it can be considered that you are responsible for this and there was no legal way for the user to be able to use the software.
But if GOG comes and the restore the "commercial activity" of a game, actively selling, even if no one buys, then you can't say that it was commercially abandoned, and that will postpone of that much that it will be on GOG the legal claim of "having the IP active".
Re: GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
#10> Why introduce a membership now? Is GOG in financial trouble? Glad they put this into the FAQ, because that was certainly my first thought, although I'm not sure the answer really assuages my concerns. You have to admit that the combination of "Original founder buys back GOG from CD Projekt" and then "GOG introduces patron tier" soon thereafter does suggest a company in some financial hardship.
The patron program was introduced weeks (or even months) before the buyout of GOG.