How GOG fixed Cold Fear | GOG Tech Talk

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wish us Steam owners could get the updates. Game.was delisted from Steam for this.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would GOG give the work they did to a competing storefront?

    If you value the work, support the people who did it.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they meant that they wish Valve would also do this.

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you say the same for Epic Games Store exclusives?

      The game was delisted from Steam right before GOG dropped this. I am not giving Ubisoft more money for Cold Fear. Since nobody can buy it on Steam anymore, there is no pro-consumer reason that the GOG fixes could not have been given to everyone that already owned the game on Steam as a free update.

      Ubisoft wants me to buy the game I already own again. I am not doing that. I don’t care if 2% or whatever goes to GOG for their fixes. I know that more than 50% is going to Ubisoft.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Someone explain how gog is about to patch software that they don’t own?

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  • Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    gog has a bunch of tweaks for the stuff they host. I’m guessing it’s either a clause in the contract for their storefront, or this is a volunteer for the game preservation program.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know they do but always wondered how but that’s a good guess!

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ve done it forever, it’s been part of their initial concept for ages. Lots of the actual old games on there (as the name Good Old Games is derived from) are pre-patched to work on modern machines without setup, often also including community patches if there are any.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but how? Haha

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They actually do quite a bit of legwork to track down current/original rights owners. In some instances they are even able to acquire original source.

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• popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Praying that one day GOG can strike a deal with console owners to bring old abandoned game to PC. I know decompiles exist but you basically need to pirate the games to play them which is very inaccessible.

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