[danielskogly]

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

[thaumasiotes]

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?

[graynk]

> 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.

[thaumasiotes]

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.

[graynk]

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...

[izacus]

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?

[thaumasiotes]

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).