The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.
Sussy, but i’m glad
Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
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Rin@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Excellent that they don’t engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.
Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Gog goes another step and provides a guarantee on stuff they’ve modified to ensure it works, and provide an offline installer that’s entirely self-contained for archviing purposes.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Eh, i wouldnt say they are better. They explicitly pulled all unreal games off all stores ( steam, epic store, gog, … ), killed all servers and when asked acted like unreal never existed. They are pieces of shit for doing it and they had no real reason in doing so imo…
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Every dev and game company is out for your money. They all suck not just Nintendo.
Glide@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
While I don’t approve of Epic’s stabs at exclusivity, Steam needs a competitor to keep it in check, and one that is making some efforts to support the preservation of art is a welcome choice.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
But GOG is alresdy the Steam with Principals.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
As much as I like them I don’t think you can call them a competitor.
I’ve seen games that are available on both platforms that sell hundreds of times more copies on Steam simply because of steam’s reputation.
A competitor actually has to be able to compete.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Winning move from Epic. Showing what should be done for abandoned games. Give it back to the people so it can continued to be enjoyed by the community that will continue to care for it.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
There’s literally no reason not to do that. The game has long since made money and keeping it out of public ownership is now not doing anyone any favors.
Some studios are just intransigent.
scholar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Still weird that they stopped selling them on steam and gog…
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh man, UT2004 was my fave arena death match back in the day, so much fun. Hope they release more!
3laws@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Every 10,000 cycles Epic has a small w. I’ll take it.