Who is on Good Old Games ?
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Not me. I already own all the old games I care about in physical form. I don't need to own them again in a "fixed by gog scientit's" InnoSetup+DOSBox/ScummVM/GlideWrapper/DdrawWrapper form. If I needed convenience, i'd CloneCD/VGACopy all of it to an external for backup and copying from for virtual mounting.
Also some of GoG's releases are questionable, i.e. mastered from pirated copies... Descent II being evident with CD tracks starting seconds misaligned as if they mastered from an Alcohol 120% image. Malformed timestamps are also evident in most of them. You'd know this if your 1991 game is dated specifically December 24, 1996 or in the late 2000's.
I'd also have to dodge their referral links since they have this spamcouraging affiliate program.
Also some of GoG's releases are questionable, i.e. mastered from pirated copies... Descent II being evident with CD tracks starting seconds misaligned as if they mastered from an Alcohol 120% image. Malformed timestamps are also evident in most of them. You'd know this if your 1991 game is dated specifically December 24, 1996 or in the late 2000's.
I'd also have to dodge their referral links since they have this spamcouraging affiliate program.
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I used to hang out on an IRC channel where people collected iso images of old games (including some rareties...) for safekeeping. Perhaps someone thought of going commercial with the same idea.
If you spend any amount of time on their site it becomes clear that they're not re-releasing old games against the original publishers' will or without cutting them in on the sales. So I doubt they use pirated versions, and if they did in some cases, there probably were good reasons to do so.
Yup. Good site. Got Outcast there, but was a bit disappointed later when they released a "fixed" System Shock 2 version without giving credits to some members of the "TTLG" community. Well, at least they acknowledged their error.
