![]() ![]() (That link also has information on their future 2.0 plans)Īnother interesting thing that GOG has is community wishlist pageįor fans of classic RPGs, GOG has a few Dungeons & Dragons games in which they are listed as publishers themselves, so these probably won't make it to Steam. GOG GALAXY 2.0 - All your games and friends in one place. GOG Galaxy has a friends list, game downloads (Which will keep them up to date), cloud saves (Yes even the ancient games), Back up downloads (Simple download of your DRM Free copy of a game you've purchased), Im sure i'm forgetting stuff, etc, etc, ) but its current iteration doesn't actually suck. GOG also has GOG Galaxy, I'm sure a few of you have heard about the 2.0 version being touted around (Unified client for all games you own from all store fronts Steam, Ubisoft, EA, Origin, ETC. I never saw legit Abandonware as bad or piracy but if it's against the TOS I'll close the topic.GOG is a curated storefront similar to Steam but it sells DRM copies of games, it used to only specialize in older games (GOG stands for Good Old Games) but they've moved towards accepting modern games as well although it's a fairly strict curation storefront in that regard compared to Steams wildwest sort of situation. From what I can tell if a license holder ever contacted an abandonware site and told them to remove an game or IP even if they didn't sell or profit from it anymore most decent abandonware sites would remove the game immediately. Those could be classified as abandonware. Then there are the games from companies that just don't exist anymore in any form and the IP was never sold to an existing license holder. ![]() It's not the same as playing illegal NES games which Nintendo still holds and enforces the licenses too along with a lot of other console publishers. A lot of the older games publishers simply didn't care if they were distributed online because they no longer sold the game. Most abandonware are games that simply would not run on modern computers anyway without the assistance of a DOS emulator like Dosbox. If the game was still copyrighted and claimed by the publishers the legit abandonware sites would not upload the game or just provide a freeware or demo version like in the case of Duke Nukem 3D, Blood ect. ![]()
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