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DRM-Free Classic Games Store Opens To Public
arcticstoat writes "With all the controversy surrounding DRM in games at the moment, one games store has decided to buck the trend, proudly proclaiming that all its games are DRM-free. First announced back in July, Good Old Games is now in the public beta stage, which means that anyone can now access the site's archive of classic PC games, and you can do what you want with your game when you've bought it, too. 'You won't find any intrusive copy protection in our games; we hate draconian DRM schemes just as much as you do,' says the site. 'Once you download a game, you can install it on any PC and re-download it whenever you want, as many times as you need, and you can play it without an internet connection.'"
In related news, Stardock, the company responsible for the Gamer's Bill of Rights, is apparently working on a new copy-protection solution that will be friendlier to consumers than current schemes.
Stardock? Look at the bullshit they have released over the years that was more intrusive and less cool... fuck these guys.
Hmm there's a new dir on this ftp server that ... you know ... I know nothing about ...
GOG games [all of them] [full version]
Wonder what's in there.
Wasn't able to buy anything without Javascript. :( Not likely I'll be back.
A good selection and a good price ($6 each).
Good price? You can get most of them free off old magazine cover discs or off ebay for a lot less.
I'm "a dick" to you anyway, whether or not I steal any games. You see, I do not share your opinions and I exist, therefore you are forced to deal with me.
And that's enough to make me "a dick" to you.
You see it's all the same. Whether or not I make those people's lives impossible. Oh right and there's that I don't give a fuck about your opinion, since you're "a dick" for suggesting I am one.
Means NO dollar of mine will enter their bank account, while i am not a F/oss zealot Taking other people's work that they do just for fun and using it to make a profit without thanking them or compensating them is wrong.
.. a TWO word link on the very bottom of the front page only does not mean they are giving proper thanks to the people they are standing on top of. consider that most of their games are dos based they should have a note of thanks at the TOP of EVERY order page for EVERY dos game saying 'This game is run in Dosbox(link)'. it doesn't bode too well on their attitude that their 'thanks' page is hidden. Though i have to admit it's better then NO mention.
This has been possible on perhaps a hundred classic computer gaming websites. I found out the sad way that classic Commodore entertainment was of higher quality than classic PC. PC in MS-DOS was where the commercial entertainment built-up because of Apogee.
The older RPG's are much better than all the modern emo horror the junkwad editors and writers try to pass as story and character. The greater writers never relied on advanced technology to entertain a thought, and so now modern gamewriters are doing what they could to emulate this by embracing folklore once again. A good example of superior balance in an old title classic could be known as Darklands from MicroProse: best RPG I've ever seen, taking place in medievel Germany after the standpoint of Roman Catholicism influence. It's kind of a sad game in that point, and if you look through the bias of gameplay in some of the effects then people would know what kind of propoganda title it realy represents, perhaps like how Catholic influence has caused a great deal of trespass in every direction it wanted to claim for its own. It's outstanding how ignorant and sociopathic the Roman Catholic Church has professed itself to the degredation of science back in those days. I would doubt it if RCC were the ones that thinned the population of sasquatch as no different than a species of Wicca or Alchemy (unregulated Chemistry).