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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Narag on July 10, 2008, 01:44:35 PM

Title: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: Narag on July 10, 2008, 01:44:35 PM
Includes the Fallouts. :hyper

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53535 (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53535)

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Located at GOG.com and slated to launch in September, the online store will sell DRM-free digital downloads of old-school PC games at $5.99 or $9.99 a pop. A closed public beta will go live on August 1, with the site currently accepting beta applications.


The site will initially carry titles from publishers Interplay and Codemasters, including the previously-mentioned Fallout series, MDK 1 and 2, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Freespace 1 and 2, Sacrifice, Descent 1-3 and Kingpin: Life of Crime. While a full list of the store's launch offerings has yet to be finalized, other games slated to appear by September include Shattered Steel, Jagged Alliance 2, Redneck Rampage, Operation: Flashpoint, Colin McRae, and TOCA Race Driver 3.

Each game sports full compatibility with Windows XP and Vista, and does not require any sort of online activation. To eliminate compatibility issues, the team has source code access to most games and will be creating custom installers for each title.

Once purchased, a title can be re-downloaded an unlimited number of times, allowing users to install the game on multiple machines.
Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: abrader on July 10, 2008, 01:46:01 PM
OS X support?

Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: Narag on July 10, 2008, 01:49:46 PM
Quote from: Borys on July 10, 2008, 01:46:28 PM
Wow... two questions:

1) How's this legal?
2) STEAM?

1) I'd assume they have permission from rights holders otherwise this would be shut down already.
2) Warning! Competition It Good!
Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: demi on July 10, 2008, 01:51:59 PM
Quote from: abrader on July 10, 2008, 01:46:01 PM
OS X support?



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Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: abrader on July 10, 2008, 01:53:57 PM
Quote from: demi on July 10, 2008, 01:51:59 PM
Quote from: abrader on July 10, 2008, 01:46:01 PM
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Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: Eric P on July 10, 2008, 02:07:01 PM
jesus will someone please just get me nolf2?
Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: Draft on July 10, 2008, 02:08:06 PM
Whoa. How awesome?

So awesome.

I'm gonna download Kingpin  8)
Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 10, 2008, 04:46:29 PM
I still have my kingpin cd somwhere. I remember how edgy it was in the day with its use of voice acting to deliever tons of swearing.

Not to mention the oh-em-gee flamethrower.
Title: Re: GOG to Sell Cheap Downloads of Classic PC Games; Offerings Lack DRM
Post by: Draft on July 10, 2008, 05:00:07 PM
Sixteen men on a dead man's chest

Repeat 200 times.