Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think they have even one game in their catalogue that StopKillingGames is about.

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  • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not sure that was their point. It’s about the principal of it.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And in principle I’m fine with an online store that only sells conventional, offline singleplayer games to not give a pickle about service games.

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      • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Good to know but I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the principle originally being discussed.

        The movement is about the legal right to keep what you paid for *period*. If you’re “fine” with publishers killing service games today, you’re just signaling to the industry that you’ll be fine with them adding mandatory online check-ins to your favorite single-player games tomorrow.

        Apathy toward a principle usually ends with losing the privilege you thought was safe… Food for thought.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There are a number of old LAN games there too. It’s basically the only place I can feasibly shop for multiplayer shooters at the moment. The sad part is that I think the newest one is Crysis Wars, from 2008.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    StopKillingGames is also about keeping games with always online DRM (even present in many singleplayer games today) from rendering it completely unplayable, which would also determine if it could even be sold on GoG in the future.

    All of GoG’s current catalog is only possible because the trend of always online DRM wasn’t a thing yet, but going forward, we’ll need SKG to ensure GoG is able to preserve newer games as they become old. If GoG cares about preserving games, then SKG couldn’t get more in their wheelhouse. Yet they ghosted the organizer for it.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Even on Steam I‘ve never bought a game with always online DRM. Is that really still a thing?

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      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, many games implement that. More famously The Crew (which was mostly a singleplayer game with a large campaign with some multiplayer tacked on) became completely unplayable after Ubisoft shut down the multiplayer portion of the game due to always online DRM. They only later patched the game to become playable in singleplayer again after the extreme backlash from the SKG campaign, which focused on The Crew as an example.

        There are many more singeplayer games either already killed, or currently at-risk of being destroyed. SKG keeps an up to date list of them here: stopkillinggames.wiki.gg/wiki/Dead_game_list

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