Why delist fucking OUTER WORLDS of all games?
New publisher, who probably doesn’t like gog
Microsoft.
Delisting of games always suck, regardless of what store it is.
The linked forum does not open for me.
GoG - the preservation platform… Uh-huh
They don’t own the games, my friend.
At least I get to keep the delisted games I bought in my account DRM-free.
Preservation doesn’t work the way you think: it need a context. The best example of preservation are works in Public Domain: but you’re not talking about a store then.
Should they continue selling licenses they don’t have the rights to?
Oh course not, but the fact this is an outcome for games that are only 6 years old rather flies in the face of their mandate.
It does not, in that I have a downloaded offline installer for the delisted games.
I mean, granted, when delisted from other platforms I can typically still download them, but on GOG I know I can keep them regardless. Which is the point.
I universally hate this rhetorical garbage, where anybody trying to try something other than the late capitalist status quo is then held to a higher standard, even when they are doing better than the default alternatives.
Turns out, it’s not a problem to be a left winger with a healthy income and you’re not obligated to never lose a license for a game just because you provide them DRM free. That’s why you provide them DRM free, in fact.
Their mandate is that they’re selling the games with a DRM free installer. If it’s delisted, you can still install that game DRM free on anything else as long as you have the files.
Get a USB stick with a cool design, put the installer on it, yeet it in a video game box, throw some box art on it, and you basically have the physical game.
If it feels like the physical game is something else entirely, but I think their mandate is being lived up to just fine :)
It is, in fact, because the games are only 6 years old. The publisher thinks they’re losing money by selling on gog. And, for people who have already purchased the game on gog, they can still access the downloads.
GOG*
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