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Posted January 28, 2010
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taczillabr: That was my thinking, with a giant step like EA or take-two, one brings the another giant here. And then all the constellation of publishers comes right after them.

It certainly adds some major weight to the argument in favour of them signing up. If Kotick can see the sense in using GOG then why can't they?
Posted January 28, 2010
hot interview with the lucasarts president.
Post edited January 28, 2010 by taczillabr
Posted January 28, 2010
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taczillabr: "BigDownload chats with CD Projekt/GOG co-founder Marcin Iwinski about the big Activision deal and The Witcher 2."

End of beta around March, and an implied site revamp at the same time. :) Good news, especially (I hope) for forum functionality.
Posted January 28, 2010
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Navagon: True. And the fact that they went with Steam would suggest they're oblivious to just how pirated their old classics have been. It's like fitting a new alarm to your burnt out joyridden wreck of a car.

From their point of view it makes sense.
Steam is by far the number 1 digital distribution platform.
That they also made a deal with D2D and perhaps others, but not with GOG, makes far less sense.
Posted January 28, 2010
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HertogJan: From their point of view it makes sense.
Steam is by far the number 1 digital distribution platform.
That they also made a deal with D2D and perhaps others, but not with GOG, makes far less sense.

The thing about Steam is, they didn't just use it as a digital distribution platform, but also as DRM. Their games aren't like a lot of other DOSbox games on there that don't need the client to run. That's what I meant. They may be overlooking GOG while it's still in beta. So that may change in March.
Posted January 28, 2010
I've spammed shacknews with it, lol:
Good Old Games Adds Activision--Win Gabriel Knight or Arcanum Here
Post edited January 28, 2010 by taczillabr
Posted January 28, 2010
Judging by iWi's comments I'm going to say March will be EA. With Activision and EA on board all the others will follow it will only be a matter of time.
Posted January 28, 2010
Well I do hope it's either EA or ATARI. Others don't have that many games I like (well they might have more thru aquisitions but wiki lists dont include those).
Posted January 28, 2010
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taczillabr: I've spammed shacknews with it, lol:
Good Old Games Adds Activision--Win Gabriel Knight or Arcanum Here

Thanks for the link!
Posted January 28, 2010
My money is on EA for some reason they seem to be trying to show that they listen to their customers. They could also do with a boost of cash and getting someone to fix their old games to work on modern pc's opens up untapped ££ for them with not much effort on their part as gog would be doing the hard work.
It would be great what with Activision and EA letting their games go through Gog as this now gives us a lot of games to play.
Posted January 28, 2010
http://www.gamezebo.com/features/news/gogcom-brings-activision-pc-classics-back-life
http://www.gamezebo.com/features/interviews/gogs-marcin-iwinski-activision-deal-why-drm-still-sucks
Posted January 28, 2010
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taczillabr: http://www.gamezebo.com/features/news/gogcom-brings-activision-pc-classics-back-life
http://www.gamezebo.com/features/interviews/gogs-marcin-iwinski-activision-deal-why-drm-still-sucks

Wow, very cool. More language support, expanded price points, another big publisher announcement, about 20 Activision titles in total coming, possibly some kind of Mac support... its going to be a very big year for GOG.
Posted January 28, 2010
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HertogJan: From their point of view it makes sense.
Steam is by far the number 1 digital distribution platform.
That they also made a deal with D2D and perhaps others, but not with GOG, makes far less sense.
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Navagon: The thing about Steam is, they didn't just use it as a digital distribution platform, but also as DRM. Their games aren't like a lot of other DOSbox games on there that don't need the client to run. That's what I meant. They may be overlooking GOG while it's still in beta. So that may change in March.

I don't use Steam, so I can't comment on LA titles and the DRM that comes with them.
Lets just hope that they only used Steam for testing the waters of digital distribution.
As for the March announcement, I'm hoping for EA, but LA or Take-Two (in that order) would be great too.
Posted January 28, 2010
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cogadh: Wow, very cool. More language support, expanded price points, another big publisher announcement, about 20 Activision titles in total coming, possibly some kind of Mac support... its going to be a very big year for GOG.

Really, this will be THE YEAR for GOG if all those things will come out. And there are surprises...
Post edited January 28, 2010 by taczillabr
Posted January 28, 2010
For the March announcement, I'm with Eidos and EA.
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