An nameless reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The basic PC video games market is “in a sorry state,” in keeping with DRM-free and classic-minded storefront GOG. Small video games that are not presently promoting get deserted, and compatibility points come up as expertise strikes ahead or as one-off improvement concepts age like milk. Traditional video games are solely 20 % of GOG’s catalog, and the agency hasn’t really referred to as itself “Good Outdated Video games” in 12 years. And but, at present, GOG broadcasts that it’s making “a big dedication of sources” towards a brand new GOG Preservation Program. It begins with 100 video games for which GOG’s personal builders are working to create present and future compatibility, holding them DRM-free and giving them ongoing tech help, together with granting them a “Good Outdated Recreation: Preserved by GOG” stamp.
GOG isn’t shifting its mission of offering a DRM-free various to Steam, Epic, and different PC storefronts, a minimum of not completely. However it’s demonstrably excited a few new focus that ties again to its unique identify, impressed in some half by its work on Alpha Protocol. “We predict we are able to considerably impression the classics trade by focusing our sources on it and creating superior merchandise,” writes Arthur Dejardin, head of gross sales and advertising at GOG. “If we needed to unfold the DRM-free gospel by specializing in getting new AAA video games on GOG as a substitute, we’d make little progress with the identical quantity of effort and cash (we have been attempting varied variations of that for the final 5 years).”
What sort of video games? Scanning the checklist of Good Outdated Video games, most of them are, by all accounts, each good and previous. Personally, I am glad to see the Jagged Alliance video games, System Shock 2, Warcraft I & II, Dungeon Keeper Gold and Theme Park, SimCity 3000 Limitless, and the Wing Commander collection (significantly, personally, Privateer). Most of them are, understandably, Home windows-only, although Mac help extends to 34 titles up to now, and Linux might choose up many extra by means of Proton compatibility, past the 19 native titles thus far. […] [I]f you see the shiny foil-ish GOG badge on a sport, it is an assurance that GOG has achieved all it will probably to carry ahead a basic title. It is vital work, too. “Preserving” video games does not simply imply locking a secure media in a vault, however holding video games accessible, and playable.
