![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, if this service doesn’t take off you can all quit your whining about invasive copy-protection in games, because it’s probably not going anywhere. While it’s still in beta, you can sign up for a code right now and join in. Good Old Games is the only digital distribution services where I don’t feel like a convicted thief, guilty before proven innocent. You get to own the games, not some license agreement – unlike even my favorite console service Xbox Live Arcade, there is no need to be online, or call anyone up and prove you bought the game. Sure, it’s just an installer file on my computer, but I can put it on a disc and keep it forever, let my friends borrow it, even delete it completely and redownload it anytime I want. I’ve never had this sense of legitimate ownership with zeros and ones before. Everything purchased on Good Old Games is copy-protection and DRM-free. It’s not just that the games work fine on XP and Vista machines – PCs that won’t run older stuff without lots of tweaking. How I wish PC gaming was always like this… It ran impeccably without the need to even adjust a single graphics setting. After a ten minute download of approximately 550 megabytes, I clicked “NEXT” a few times and I was playing Fallout. I never saw legit Abandonware as bad or piracy but if it's against the TOS I'll close the topic.What Good Old Games offers may not be the latest and greatest, but it works. From what I can tell if a license holder ever contacted an abandonware site and told them to remove an game or IP even if they didn't sell or profit from it anymore most decent abandonware sites would remove the game immediately. Those could be classified as abandonware. Then there are the games from companies that just don't exist anymore in any form and the IP was never sold to an existing license holder. It's not the same as playing illegal NES games which Nintendo still holds and enforces the licenses too along with a lot of other console publishers. ![]() A lot of the older games publishers simply didn't care if they were distributed online because they no longer sold the game. Most abandonware are games that simply would not run on modern computers anyway without the assistance of a DOS emulator like Dosbox. If the game was still copyrighted and claimed by the publishers the legit abandonware sites would not upload the game or just provide a freeware or demo version like in the case of Duke Nukem 3D, Blood ect. ![]()
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