How desperate of them to sell a game on the biggest PC digital platform.

Thanks for the heads up. I like to collect classical shooters, and Daikatana is not bad at all.

Yeah, that's why their servers were crashing during the release of FFXIV... not because too many people had bought subscriptions, but because they're hemorrhaging money left and right.

Well we're talking about publishers; it's not like Steam is actively seeking classic games to release, at least not on the level that GOG does. Night Dive brought Wizardry, Topware brought Septerra Core and Gorky 17, and Squeenix has been releasing lots of the their classics ever since GOG showed interest. :-P It's the publishers interested in making an extra buck, I really doubt Steam's people care since Steam could do perfectly well just by releasing new AAA and indie titles.

But I think GOG still have plenty of older titles not on Steam, such as all the DOS EA titles, Infinity Engine games, various Ubisoft games, Atari games, etc., which does make me happy.

Yeah, I remember the similar situation with Fallout Tactics. People were outraging that it's not a Fallout game and all and were saying it's horrible.

But it was a good game, actually. But not a good fallout.

Daikatana is just meh shooter, but people were expecting the second coming of Christ at least.

Romero is just a bad game designer, he was/is an amazing programmer and is responsible for id software having probably the best codebase in the industry, during the 90's, but the guy cannot design a game to save his life. See Quake 2 for another example of the guy's craptastic design influence.

Oh no, a video game publisher is... publishing video games, clearly they must be desperate to do that! Seriously though, why would they not be selling Daikatana? All they have to do is submit the game to Steam, fill out some paperwork and profit, all the legal hassle has already been done since the game is on GoG. Daikatana has developed an infamous reputation over the years and people are willing to pay money to check it out. You don't need to be desperate in oder to take advantage of this, it's practically free money!

This is actually a good question. I never understood companies not selling their products all the time. I mean, does it cost them to keep their games available on GOG, for instance? Shouldn't they just keep their whole library of games available for purchase constantly?

There are legal problems for many old games. Sometimes the rights are all over the place or if the game was using licenses they might have expired. For example one person might own the rights to the music, another to the characters and another to the franchise. Getting several people to agree to something is not easy because one person refusing is enough to put everything on halt. if the game was using licensed music or was based on some existing IP, then onw would also have to renew that license as well. That's why you never saw the Capcom Disney games for NES on the Wii's Virtual Console.

When you are in charge of a company you have to consider if gettign the rights sorted out is really worth the trouble. Logically speaking, why wouldn't you sell some old out of print game digitally, but practically the effort to get the game out might end up being more expensive than what you get in return.

Of course once the rights are secured there is no rason not to make use of it. Sinc ethe game is being sold on GoG we know an agreement was found, so takign it to Steam is less of a hassle.

I heard Final Fantasy IV is on sale on Amazon.

Romero left id after the first Quake game. Quake 2's design, if I'm not mistaken, was lead by Kevin Cloud.

Unless they tweaked the game like the GOG version or just straight up ripped the files out its not going to work well... the game is fundamentally broken on windows (i own the disk version) and i can say GOG is amazing and what they did...

now to get Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2 and Slave Zero on here! :)

Ritual's owned by a casual games publisher (who also murdered them after SiN Episodes failed) so forget about seeing any of their older output here. Ever.

"Murdered the devs". We should use that expression from now on for every development studio that gets shut down by its owners :)

Sounds more ominous, no?

Don't lose hope yet:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_search_for_game_rights_a_diaryesque_thread/post228