Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th

RiQuY@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  GOG and itch’s approach to preservation is always gonna be limited by legality, you can’t keep a game on your platform if the publisher requests its delisting; ofc piracy isn’t constrained by this, so it’s inherently better at preservation

  at least, since the games on there don’t have DRM, once you have them you keep them (and with GOG, you can also download offline installers that you can reuse on any computer you want). they make piracy way easier in that way, because pirates don’t even need to repack

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Delisted just means it’s no longer for sale, not that you can’t play it.

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• real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not having DRM is better for piracy. So in a way they’re helping “true preservation” more than other platforms that allow DRM.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s DRM free. Just practice good backups man. No need to jump to piracy.

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  • Noggog@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What about the next generation of kids that want to play old classics? If it’s just people that have private personal backups, then it’ll eventually die with them and be lost forever to time.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This post isn’t about the games being removed from the face of the internet. It’s just one platform.

      It’s too early to panic.

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    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Existence is entropy. Everything you love will be dust one day. That is natural and good.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  GoG is very much about the marketing of game preservation. That said, to my knowledge, they (like Steam) don’t remove it from your account. Just from the store. So if you bought it, you can still play it.

  GoG is a bit better in that their DRM model only requires you to authenticate to download, not reinstall. So you can theoretically archive all of your purchases if you have way more storage than you should. But it also is horrible at surfacing when an installer has an update so… mostly this is only viable for truly dead games.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I don’t think GOG has removed delisted games from users libraries.

    Unfortunately it did happen to Oxenfree on itch instead of letting people who could it retain access to keep downloading it after it is delisted. pcgamer.com/…/another-reminder-that-your-digital-…

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• TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lol, should they just keep the games up? See if any blood hungry lawyers notice? (Piracy is probably the best way to preserve though, I will agree on that.)

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