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RootBeerGuy, do games w Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot
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I will not pay 15-ish bucks for decade old games that I already purchased long time ago at release. Also not with another buck discount off. Definitely not since they are Blizzard games and these days that studio is not worth supporting anymore.

Good initiative from GOG, but this feels like wasted money to me. Warcraft 1 is definitely a hard sell because of how terrible playing it will feel. Or did they change that in the Remaster? You used to be able to only control one unit at a time. In Warcraft 2 they upped it to 9 units? Or am I off and it was 9 units in 1 and already more in 2?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

If you already purchased it a long time ago, and you can still get that copy working, then cool. But having a DRM-free copy designed to work with modern systems is very appealing. Buying DRM-free shows them where customers want to purchase their games. There are plenty of decades-old games worth more than $7.50 each.

ceenote,

Never played the OG, but I’ve played the remaster and you can definitely select more than 1 unit.

quirzle,

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  • gogoverdrive,

    It was 4 in warcraft 1, 9 in 2, increased to 9 in the remaster.

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    The good thing is that thanks to how GOG works, as long as some pirate purchases a copy, they will always be able to keep a current update available to the pirate community.

    Thanks GOG, for being against DRM in games.

    RampantParanoia2365,

    So it’s wasted money because you personally already own these games.

    RootBeerGuy,
    @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Yeah, I said I will not. I didn’t say no one should. I think it is great that GOG preserves them but the price is still to high for something from a scumbag company.

    How does it work with the money GOG is charging, does Blizzard see anything of that? If not, then nice, makes it more worth to me to pay so GOG gets more funding.

    If Blizzard does get a cut then GOG should give a rather hefty discount as a final “fuck you” to Blizzard. Because that’s all they deserve.

    thermal_shock,

    you could group multiple in W1. you could only build buildings adjacent to your road though, I remember making a road right to the enemy and putting the barracks in their camp lol

    icecreamtaco,
    @icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t think you understand the point of preservation. This is for future generations, and you as well if you ever lose the original CD installers

    IsThisAnAI,

    This entire preservation program is just going to end up costing them millions for dozens of people that care.

    icecreamtaco,
    @icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

    If it was only dozens gog would have been shut down ten years ago

    umbraroze, do games w Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot

    I have them on CD-ROM.

    I also think I have the final patches for them on floppies that I stuffed in the boxes. Not sure if they’re readable (or in fact the final patches)

    inclementimmigrant,

    Thankfully it seems that PC gaming wiki still has working links to the patches.

    ramble81, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

    Just when I thought he couldn’t get any edgier with a black MAGA hat, I noticed the font he used….

    b161,

    The “yes I’m 110% a Nazi in case every other time I told you I’m a Nazi didn’t come through” font.

    Ledivin, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

    Elon’s companies have been successful despite his input, not because of it. If you’re interested, do some reading on how middle-management protected their teams from his nonsense in both Tesla and SpaceX, basically just feeding him bullshit that sounded good and ignoring him whenever possible. Those people are why the companies have thrived.

    Shit, just look at Twitter before and after. The valuation difference is staggering.

    mesamunefire,

    twitter is probably the best thing to happen for spacex, testla and other companies lol. He just spends all his time shitposting.

    Grimy,

    Not to mention all the preference he will show his own companies because of the appointment buying Twitter got him.

    givesomefucks,

    It’s risk assessment.

    If you have a startup and someone offers you 9 figures so they’re the CEO and you still run the day to day…

    You’d be an idiot to risk it, because any number of billion dollar companies can fuck you over thru innumerable ways.

    So every once and a while someone with shit tier risk assessment lucks out and suddenly becomes unimaginable rich. And those are the people making offers on the next generation of startups.

    The system is set up so the worst people possible run shit. Because no sane person would keep “letting it ride” to the point they make billions, and a crazy person who does becomes too big to fail. And once they get to that point, they’ve convinced themselves no one else is smart enough to play Russian roulette 100 times in a row.

    At that point they’ve conned themselves into really believing they’re geniuses who know more than anyone.

    Bieren,

    I tell people this all the time. There are people who have the job of distracting musk like a 3 year old. They don’t believe it and continue to worship him. They act like he personally invented everything and refuse to accept the truth. The only thing he actually invented was the cybertruck.

    Soup,

    Did he actually invent the Cybertruck? He drew the world’s shittiest picture that was all straight lines and then made a bunch of toddler-level claims about its abilities while demanding results from the teams of real people that actually had to make his nonsense even somewhat functional.

    People who deserve the title of inventor actually do the fucking work. He just said “and it’ll be invincible and climb over mountains and can pull GOD and be SO COOL”

    Snowclone,

    I read this whole article by some truck review guy? And he was confused because he said the cyber truck came within a hair of filling a niche in the truck world that was pretty much free to take, but just narrowly ended up being in a much better established range of trucks that it had no hope in competing in. So yeah… he did all the demanding and none of the thinking, and everyone else was just there for the paycheck.

    Soup,

    The niche was what the Rivian and fuck, even the F150 Lightning are doing. The Cybertruck looks like ass and I could almost say the appearance is “kinda neat for trying something different” if it wasn’t such a dogshit product in every single way.

    Ledivin,

    I can’t help but laugh every time I see one, and in the occasional instance that the owners actually pay attention to the world around them and notice, they always glare at me 😂 they know exactly how fucking stupid they look, they just try to pretend nobody agrees

    Snowclone,

    Yeah that sounds about right. From a pure business standpoint it’s an error in every way.

    pennomi,

    Shotwell is an amazing person for operating SpaceX to such success, despite all of Elon’s efforts to the contrary, like trying to cancel Falcon Heavy.

    Strider,

    I had a boss like that once. Yes, it can be done.

    But the bottom line is they still think they’re great and everything will go on.

    That is very harmful to society.

    GhiLA, (edited ) do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
    @GhiLA@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Ah yes, gaming. That one industry you can’t really fake past a certain point or everyone will boycott, call it boring or go on strike?

    Perfect. Good decisions. Waste as much money as possible. I hope Ubisoft is in on it. Take as many shit-for-brains publishers and devs as you can gather. They forget half of the industry is wearing knee-high socks and cat ears. Propaganda games will go over like trying to sell kale to a shark.

    Furbag, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

    AI slop coming to ruin your favorite IPs in the very near future.

    AceFuzzLord, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

    Cannot wait for him to start putting out soon to be classic titles like “Ethnic Cleansing”, “Concentration Camp Simulator”, and “Deportation Station” to counter the woke libtards.

    /S

    Cold_Brew_Enema, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

    He is the most unlikeable twat on the planet.

    Milk_Sheikh,

    Somehow, simultaneously “The world’s little brother” and “the most divorced man, ever”

    x00z,
    @x00z@lemmy.world avatar

    From one of the most respected individuals to an absolute joke of a man in a few years.

    iAvicenna,
    @iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

    yea I guess at those times he wasn’t very present in social media and everything we heard about him likely came from his PR team.

    acosmichippo,
    @acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

    there were red flags. Like calling the mining accident rescuer a pedo and trying to insert himself in the rescue efforts.

    iAvicenna,
    @iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

    see, havent even heard about this. when the frequency and exposure increases you start noticing. when was this?

    acosmichippo,
    @acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

    2018

    Aceticon,

    He was always a “lie, lie and lie until you make it” kind of guy, it’s just that in the last couple of years he’s been doing it widely enough and long enough that the real results of enough of his lies came though and enough people started suspecting his words and looking at them more carefully and spotting the lying early.

    As the saying goes, “you can deceive some people all of the time or all people some of the time, but you can’t deceive all people all of the time” - and at some point, when he became more widely known, he seems to have gone from the first mode to the second and by now he’s run out of time.

    Clinicallydepressedpoochie, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
    @Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world avatar

    I’ll be missed if elon starts pumping out good games. I don’t count on it but looking at the market it’s not impossible.

    GoodEye8,

    Releasing even bad games is already a feat. Considering how Musk doesn’t know how to run a web development company I would be surprised if his “game studio” releases anything. The only way that company releases anything is if Musk won’t be involved, and we know the “expert at everything” will be involved.

    iAvicenna,
    @iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

    I mean he already said the word AI which means he is going to likely favor output volume over the love indie devs and old companies poured into their games. So chances are very slim. Knowing him, I guess the game will be about some genius who tries to save the world and go to Mars and be the sole male responsible for repopulation. So yeah, it might turn into a Larry game which takes itself too seriously.

    ByteOnBikes,

    I loved it when Amazon, Google, and Netflix got into the gaming industry and tried to throw billions of dollars and their startup software expertise to “revolutionize” game studios.

    JakenVeina,

    He’s made it abundantly clear how much he despises the entire concept of labor, of having to pay money to people to do the things that actually make a company work. He will not be able to build a company that actually makes games with that kind of disdain for the single most important resource required to make them. And his strategy of acquiring an existing company and gutting it afterwards won’t be nearly as effective in the games industry, where you have to be continuously producing NEW content.

    shasta,

    Really? You think that behavior is any better at the existing game studios? He found an industry that welcomes his behavior

    SpitSalute, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

    How about we hang that fuckwad in a public forum instead?

    inclementimmigrant, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

    So the next greatest game will just be “around the corner” and “nearly complete” every year for decades then?

    pivot_root,

    Don’t forget, he knows more about manufacturing game development than anyone currently alive on earth.

    Ephera,

    I mean, it sounds like he might’ve found the industry that really matches his way of not working.

    distantsounds,

    Him and Todd Howard would get along

    UpperBroccoli,

    I know Todd gets a lot of hate, and some of it is deserved, but… c’mon. Just no.

    explodicle,
    @explodicle@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Cyberdaikatana

    ivanafterall, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
    @ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

    Star Citizen to the power of Musk.

    forensic_potato, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
    @forensic_potato@lemmy.world avatar

    Then let’s get ready for a ww2 game where you save Nazis instead of killing them. And then you shoot the American troops and call them “woke libs” /s

    ivanafterall,
    @ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

    Saving Private Gunther

    Sterile_Technique, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
    @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

    …wait, actually this has the potential to be amazing! I remember the early days of online gaming, and gamers for the most part were some of the most welcoming and friendly people I’ve ever been around.

    Something changed, and ‘gamer’ became a toxic word, and all but niche gaming communities kinda went to shit.

    If Elon makes some cringe-ass MMO or something, it will act as a sponge to soak up all the toxic assholes from other gaming communities.

    Do it.

    SwordInStone,
    hoshikarakitaridia, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
    @hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world avatar

    Good thing I’ve always wondered “what if someone did an Activision, but worse?”

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