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by thaumasiotes 569 days ago
> Going forward, even if a game is no longer available for sale on GOG, as part of the GOG Preservation Program, it will continue to be maintained and updated by us, ensuring it remains compatible with modern and future systems.

That's not worth much. They don't even maintain the games that are still for sale on GOG. Try playing Tales of Monkey Island; most of the cutscenes won't run.
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danielskogly 569 days ago
Tales of Monkey Island is not part of the GOG Preservation Program as far as I can tell[0]. This policy update is for games part of the program.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/tales_of_monkey_island

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thaumasiotes 569 days ago
They have another policy specifying that they maintain the games they sell. They don't sell as-is, they warrant that the game will run appropriately.

But we know they don't honor that policy.

What would you conclude?

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graynk 569 days ago
> They have another policy specifying that they maintain the games they sell. They don't sell as-is, they warrant that the game will run appropriately.

Would be helpful if you've linked to that policy :)

They do update some of the classics, that's true. Expecting them to fix bugs in every single game on the store is madness. They do have tech support that you can reach out to and they refund games if they don't work for you. That's as much as one can expect.

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thaumasiotes 568 days ago
https://www.gog.com/about_gog

> Even if the game is older than you are, we test it thoroughly, fix all the bugs, and apply patches so it runs flawlessly on your next-gen PC and on modern OSs.

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graynk 568 days ago
Not a good look to be sure, but it's hardly a policy, is it? It's a single marketing blurb (with "Upgrading classics for present-day" blurb atop of it BTW, so even there it's not claiming to fix __every single game__, but it does align with the preservation program)

The actual policies are here: https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/categories/201526109-Polici...

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izacus 569 days ago
Why the heck do you think it's the stores job to employ developers to maintain games for you forever?

How do you think that actually works out? For games that are sold for usually less than 15 bucks?

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thaumasiotes 569 days ago
Because that's what they say their job is? Did you read the rest of the comment thread?

I believe what _I_ said about it, personally, was "that's not worth much" (because they don't do it).

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Jare 569 days ago
I can't put much faith in any technical promise from GOG.

My GOG account broke somehow almost 10 years ago, and over the years and several attempts they have been unable to recover it. They can't even establish why it's broken or what games I owned or if the whole thing has been irrecoverably lost.

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