TimGremalmon Hacker News • Recommends
On “10 years of gog.com”
Noclip did an interesting documentary about GOG. "GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future" link to this video
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GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future
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History and cultureGame developmentHistory of computingUnity, Unreal and GodotRetro games and consoles
A documentary exploring how GOG tracks down, restores, and releases classic DRM-free video games.
How do old games come back from the dead? We talk to the people at GOG (GOG.com) about the work they do to hunt down & release classic games, and their mission to encourage more DRM free releases. Noclip's work is 100% crowdfunded. Consider supporting us on Patreon: patreon.com/noclip Check out our new website here: www.noclip.video Buy merch here: store.noclip.video Music Tracks (Adack): Salvation: soundcloud.com/adack/salvation Three of Swords: soundcloud.com/adack/three-of-swords Music Tracks (Audio Network): Silent Collision audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/silent-collision_84176 Single Blow 2 audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/single-blow-2_89477 Clash 3 audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/clash-3_107225 Fracture 3 audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/fracture-3_132509 Element One One Five audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/element-one-one-five_140188 Time Decay audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/time-decay_140192 Ascendance audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/ascendance_145770 Ecliptic Drift 2 audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/ecliptic-drift-2_156140 Games Featured (in order of appearance): Theme Park, Lion Kind, SWAT 4, Black and White 2, Homeworld Cataclysm, Realms of Arkania 3, Dune 2, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, The Operative: No One Lives Forever, Sensible World of Soccer, Rainbow Six: Rogue Speak, Re-Volt, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Harvester, Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate, Superfrog, Syndicate, Eye of the Beholder, Wing Commander, Theme Hospital, Operation Flashpoint, Splinter Cell, Theme Park, Outcast, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate, Konung: Legend of the North, Toca Race Driver 3, Carmageddon, Cannon Fodder 2, Worms, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Jagged Alliance, Alien Breed 2, Beneath a Steel Sky, Paper’s Please, This War of Mine, Monster Hunter World, Battlefield 1, Far Cry 5, Destiny 2, Total War: Three Kingdoms , The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Gwent, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Pro Evolution Soccer. Intro Old Ideas The First Signature The Hunt Cleaning Code The Future CreditsWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an insightful look into the technical and legal challenges of video game preservation.
wildpeakson Hacker News • Recommends
On “Russia to legalize software piracy”
An interesting point from the history of GOG is that it originated from a market where piracy was the norm, Noclip has a great documentary about it: link to this video
mrkrameron Hacker News • Mentions
On “Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation”
GOG.com123 revives and preserves old video games. 1 gog.com 2 link 3 GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future Documentary: link to this video
teawreckson Hacker News • Mentions
On “Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing”
Something else to consider is motivating piracy. If they sell a piece of software for a flat price in all geos, the ones who can't afford it will invest more time in pirating the software. As a side effect, piracy is normalized in those communities as a necessary way of life in the digital world. Naturally, their tools and methods will leak out to other communities and make piracy easier in places that CAN afford them. Devs would rather sell to those communities at a "loss" than ostracize them and deal with the fallout. Check out this brief description of how software proliferated in Poland during the early years of computers (3:09-8:27): link to this video
mr_sturdon Hacker News • Mentions
On “GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders”
I'm sure this was alluded to in NOCLIP's YouTube documentary on GOG0. It was said then that half of the battle was tracking down rights holders as IP had sometimes been absorbed through multiple acquisitions by the time they came to restore some games. 0 - link to this video
aequitason Hacker News • Mentions
On “Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost”
GOG shows that paying for drm-free games in a country where copyright was unenforced and piracy offered a better UX can still be profitable: link , link to this video