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 · 14 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 · 8 hours ago

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

@Aqarius@lemmy.world · 1 hour ago

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

@ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 hours ago

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

@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 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 · 1 hour 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 · 36 minutes 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 · 4 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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