CD Projekt - GOG Adds Titles

BluesNews notes that Good Old Games has added Sacred:Gold and Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games to their lineup of offerings:

GOG.com, the online Good Old Games marketplace, announces two new additions to their roster of DRM-free games updated to run on modern systems. The new old games (huh?) they have just added are Sacred Gold, the upgraded edition of this hack-and-slash action/RPG, and Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games, a continuation of the turn-based combat of the original Jagged Alliance.

Other titles available include Gothic as well as the fantasy/tb strategy classic Disciples: Sacred Lands Gold. You can check it all out at GOG.com.
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I hope they get EA on board soon. I'd love to see some updated Wing Commander/Privateer titles. Lucas Arts too for that matter.

Although they don't have a huge game selection yet I'm supporting them.
I just got Sacred Gold, well worth the $10.00.

Shaf

The whole affair is a great idea, and I would love to see it succeed. Anyone giving me legal access to older games get serious props in my book.

Wow, there was a time just a few or several months ago when I was regularly searching ebay for a decent price on Sacred Gold, but striking out. And now here it is for $10. That's good news.

Now that bandwidth is cheap, I do not understand why more publishers don't offer direct downloads of older games at reasonable prices. Kudos to GOG for making games available, but I don't see why publishers need any kind of middle man when they could just take my $10 directly. Especially in the case of old games like these, it's not like there's going to be such a rush of downloads that a major investment in bandwidth is required.

Anywho, ebay is still my first stop for games, and that's ridiculous when I'd much rather be giving my money directly to the companies who made them. Given a choice between getting a measly ten bucks from me for a two or three year old game, or getting absolutely nothing when I buy the same game off of ebay, why do publishers prefer the latter? And how much do they even get when a retail place sells their game for $20? With direct downloads they get to keep every single cent.

Originally Posted by Yeesh
Now that bandwidth is cheap, I do not understand why more publishers don't offer direct downloads of older games at reasonable prices. Kudos to GOG for making games available, but I don't see why publishers need any kind of middle man when they could just take my $10 directly. Especially in the case of old games like these, it's not like there's going to be such a rush of downloads that a major investment in bandwidth is required.

I think bandwidth is the least of their problems. By letting GoG handle this they basically earn a few bucks without having to provide support and invest time in making sure the games are compatible with Vista and XP. It's a great deal for any publisher from my pov.

I'm crossing my fingers and vaguely hoping VtM: Bloodlines will go up on GOG some time soon. Please?

Yeesh: I imagine for a lot of publishers, it's the lack of DRM thing. Oh no, here's a game that's nearly abandonware anyway, but what if people pirate them? Horror!

Originally Posted by stealth
I think bandwidth is the least of their problems. By letting GoG handle this they basically earn a few bucks without having to provide support and invest time in making sure the games are compatible with Vista and XP. It's a great deal for any publisher from my pov.

Yeah that's really the deal. Isn't GOG getting the source code for these games and recompiling it to run in XP/Vista? I doubt the publishers want to put any resources on games these old.

I just bought Jagged Alliance and Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games. I have them as physical originals, but I doubt they'll be compatible with Vista so I decided to just buy them from GOG. Apart from that the project has my sympathies so I thought it would be a nice thing to do.

Yeah that's really the deal. Isn't GOG getting the source code for these games and recompiling it to run in XP/Vista? I doubt the publishers want to put any resources on games these old.

Hmmm. I guess I didn't consider that. I've never upgraded to Vista (hope to hold out until Windows 7, knock on wood), but with XP I've never had any trouble gettign older games to run. Still I could see how if you're charging somebody money for a product in 2008, you'd have to support them modern operating systems.

But that just means I'll be back to ebay for all those games that don't make it to GOG. Damn you, ebay! Damn you, frugality aka cheapscatery!

Originally Posted by Yeesh
Hmmm. I guess I didn't consider that. I've never upgraded to Vista (hope to hold out until Windows 7, knock on wood), but with XP I've never had any trouble gettign older games to run. Still I could see how if you're charging somebody money for a product in 2008, you'd have to support them modern operating systems.

But that just means I'll be back to ebay for all those games that don't make it to GOG. Damn you, ebay! Damn you, frugality aka cheapscatery!

I've had some issues (not with any of the games I ended up buying from them), but some of the Win95 games and even some Win98 ones have issues. The Late Dos ones like WC III-V, Privateer II, Ultima 7-8, and a lot of the Lucas Arts titles would be great, but I imagine the amount of work necessary would be exponentially higher.

Originally Posted by Yeesh
Now that bandwidth is cheap,

Depends where you live. Please don't believe that bandwidth is cheap everywhere.

Originally Posted by blatantninja
I've had some issues (not with any of the games I ended up buying from them), but some of the Win95 games and even some Win98 ones have issues. The Late Dos ones like WC III-V, Privateer II, Ultima 7-8, and a lot of the Lucas Arts titles would be great, but I imagine the amount of work necessary would be exponentially higher.

U7 and SI play fine with Exult (http://exult.sourceforge.net/) and with resolution enhancements !

For me to be really interesting, these kind of "old games download platforms" should offer enhanced gaming experiences, like what is done with the Planescape Torment and Fallout 2 Resolution hacks, and such.

Source code ? I strongly doubt that. I think they only tweak some .ini and add somme dlls maybe.