GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.

nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works · 15 hours ago

GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.

Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de · 9 hours ago

Luckily there are some friendly people with eye patches and peglegs on the internet backing them up for you.

Aqarius@lemmy.world · 3 hours ago

“It’s not piracy, it’s federated backups!”

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 hours ago

Good luck finding a semi obscure 15 year old game on the high seas.

wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 hours ago

You might be surprised. Plenty of sites backing up whatever they can. Try archive.org and various abandonware sites.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 hours ago

Or, I might not be surprised at all. You might find Borderlands for the next 20 years, but what about the games that only sold like 40k copies to begin with?

med@sh.itjust.works · 2 hours ago

I found a copy of 1995’s ‘Desktop Toys’ on archive.org, and ran it on linux with wine literally yesterday.

Windows 11 has an incompatability with 32 bit progams apparently.

I see your point, but I think we’re in better shape than you estimate.

That said, we could always be in bettar shape, and as more is created, the less complete archives can be.

r4venw@sh.itjust.works · 6 hours ago

Will they also help during a zombie apocalypse? Asking for a friend…

GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.

GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.

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