ZylonBane on 21/9/2010 at 18:17
And then you have the mindless drones who started referring to servers as "the cloud" the moment it became trendy to do so.
Aja on 21/9/2010 at 18:30
Mindless drones like Renzatic, you mean?
The_Raven on 21/9/2010 at 18:35
My current working theory is that Atari has made a deal with CD Projekt that gave them control over part, or all, of the company. This theory came about when I was looking at the wikipedia article on Baldur's Gate looking to see who owned the IP. The article mentioned that Atari had released a compilation of the games in 2006. In addition to this, Atari was/is the publisher for both The Witcher and The Witcher 2. It makes sense to me at least. :p
DDL on 21/9/2010 at 18:56
I still don't really understand what all the fuss is about. Unless you are in the habit of bulk buying games and then thinking "oh, I'll download them later", then surely you have already downloaded anything you've bought? I mean, at least ONCE. Sure, you may not have downloaded it to every machine you might ever possibly consider downloading it to, but as long as you have it on ONE machine, you can basically copy it anywhere with impugnity. Right?
Sure, with steam, for instance, you pretty much need the servers to be there if you ever want to install a game on a different machine (unless you create a local installer), but these are small, old games that come in a prepackaged neat little installer that is totally DRM free and does not require connection whatsoever. Just...save your downloads? Hell, burn them to a disk if you must, but they generally take almost no HD space.
This just seems analogous to people who play with only a single savegame, and then do something stupid, and are faced with either restarting or being screwed...just: save. Save more often. Save stuff.
I never viewed/view GOG as a magical online depository of all my purchased games: it's a bonus, certainly, but once I've downloaded a game, it's like: right fucking THERE. I can save it, whack it onto a memstick and plonk it on my laptop for long train journeys, burn it onto a CD, whatever. The service I thought GOG was providing was 'classic older games that have been tweaked to play on modern machines, for reasonably good prices', with the fact that the things you've bought stay online and redownloadable merely a nice extra...but I guess most of you thought differently?
So yeah: if they turn out to still be alive, then wooo. If not, awww. But "OMG DAMN YOU, MAH GAEMZ!!" seems a crazy response.
Renzatic on 21/9/2010 at 18:59
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
And then you have the mindless drones who started referring to servers as "the cloud" the moment it became trendy to do so.
Yeah, look at me all using established terminology like some kind of mouthbreathing slackjawed moron. What the fuck was I thinking? I should've said Sheeple Storage Information Superbyway, threw out a smug grin, and stuck my thumb up my ass.
:thumb:
WingedKagouti on 21/9/2010 at 19:14
Quote Posted by DDL
I never viewed/view GOG as a magical online depository of all my purchased games:
Neither do I, but I also don't have unlimited storage space. With the games being available for download, I don't have to keep all the games I bought from the various online services on my HD (or burned to CD/whatever), which means I don't have to continually purchase additional storage space.
lost_soul on 21/9/2010 at 20:15
This is 2010. I'm a pretty poor guy, and I have several TB of disk space. You can get a 1 TB drive for under $60! (
http://www.pricewatch.com/gallery/hard_removable_drives/sata_1tb)
There really is no reason not to keep backups of the things you purchase online. Even the FAQ on GOG explicitly recommends doing so.
At this point, a good net connection is *far* more expensive than a hard drive or two. I may only download at 150 kbps, but I only have to do it once.
DDL on 21/9/2010 at 20:26
Plus most of these games come in at around the 200-500 megabyte mark at most, since they're from the era of the CD-ROM.
Fuck, I bought cannon fodder and it was 20MB. 20!!!!
It just never makes sense to me to get outraged about your 'entitlement' to infinite online game storage when downloading and backing up is SO SO SIMPLE. And as noted, explicitly suggested, apparently.
van HellSing on 21/9/2010 at 20:33
Quote Posted by DDL
Fuck, I bought cannon fodder and it was 20MB. 20!!!!
20 megs? That's HUGE! Must be the CD edition :p
Ladron De La Noche on 21/9/2010 at 20:53
So the Baldur's Gate logo is in the video. What does that mean? :confused:
