It sure is interesting times. However, jaded as I am when it comes to this industry, I can’t help to think this is being made in response to the Steam/DRM/ownership debacle as some kind of business opportunity. Regardless, it’s a good initiative, with their mission consisting of making sure the old classics work forever and ever. To be a little crass, perhaps, but shouldn’t that be a thing already for GOG? Once again, not trying to be negative here, seeing as this is a good thing. Yet, I can’t help myself to ask these questions.
You can find more information about it here: GOG Preservation Program. Essentially, it means certain games will get a tag now, indicating that GOGs best engineers/programmers have worked on the game to make sure it runs on modern systems. Currently, they have around 100 certified games so far. They also released a video that plays into nostalgia hard, and the fear of games being lost forever to DRM and the likes:
A cool thing with this initiative is the update blurb on each of these games on their corresponding GOG page. If we check Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete for example, they have a list of updates in the bottom right corner under game details. It catalogs everything they have done for the title. I’m sure it’s a new thing, as I don’t see it on games that don’t have this tag. Anyway, very nifty. So, yeah, hopefully, it’s not something that will run into the sand, and it’s something that GOG will keep pushing for. My dream though is that they one day will run reprints of old classic games. That would be a nice business call, for the hunger for physical copies is increasing!
/Thomas
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