CD Projekt, known most recently for The Witcher, has announced the coming launch of a new DRM-free classic games store named Good Old Games. They plan to have a variety of goodies such as Fallout, Freespace, and Jagged Alliance available at their opening in September, and are planning to update them all for compatibility with current hardware and XP/Vista.
I think this is great news for gamers. Like a certain other online store (wink wink), there won't be any obnoxious DRM, and customers will be able to download as often as they need. If things go well for GOG, the days of nasty DRM and limited downloads may well be numbered. Between new games on Impulse and old games on GOG, we may well soon see a day where nearly any PC game you want to play is available at your fingertips--legally and with no strings attached!
These should be CHEAP. Like, Virtual Console kind of cheap at worst. Let's not forget they probably just paid a few people a few bucks for the rights to redistribute these with no other real cost... If they even paid anyone for some of these unsuported products from defunct companies and not just made some settlement in court to have the right to publish them or something. And they really shouldn't offer now free games on there, it's misleading for people who aren't in the know.
They're pricing them at $6-10.
Lets hope this takes off and the catalog grows and grows! Although with some of the software companies out there we may never see some really good classics.
I'd love to see some old Bullfrog games. Dungeon Keeper, Theme hospital, Syndicate.
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