I filled the survey as well. It’s mostly focused on “games preservation”. I’m not up to pay subscription for anything they’re willing to offer and even made sure to tell them that I’m willing to pay a premium for whatever useful content (games) end up exclusive to subscribers
I told them I’d like a GOG style humble choice. If they’re not willing to give actual games, I’d be interested in a subscription to help game preservation, but probably only $5 a month max.
A humble choice like subscription service would be pretty great honestly. $10ish a month for maybe 1 AA/AAA modern game and a handful of retro and indie games would have me on board immediately. Starting to charge for things they currently or have previously offered for free is not the way to win people over.
Once they added every modern Lego game to their preservation program I knew the thing was bunk. Harry Potter Lego game = worth preserving, Lego Island = never heard of it. Total BS
Yeah, I found that one weird as well. Lego Island wasn’t just the first Lego game. It was one of the first open world games. Well worth preserving. Much more so than the Lego games that got added.
I think LEGO Island would be hard to license because Mindscape is long gone. Also the source code was lost as I recall. MattKC on YouTube has created lots of patches to get the game running on modern systems. He’s working on decompiling it actually.
I’d pay for native linux support. They should provide direct support to Heroic if they don’t want to take on the cost themselves full bore. I remember some AMA they did where the cost of Linux wasn’t worth their already thin margins and they were happy with Heroic. If they were ever going to grow, I’d believe that they would need to address the handheld market and getting their storefront more visible
I think the only way they can introduce a subscription without backlash is if they make it a purely community thing with a few bonuses. Give people access to special insights into their preservation efforts, special interviews, voting rights, Q&A, occasional free game, etc. If they lock features behind this like more cloud storage, or other stuff that customers simply expect with their game purchase, the press will be all negative.
The previews are mostly positive but some opinions are mixed. It sounds like Eternal where some people love it while others aren’t thrilled about the new changes.
The previous versions of a game thing is something they took away, IIRC. They only keep the latest version and a patch to get up to it available for download, and you can only roll back to previous versions that you had already installed over time, or something like that. This is them seeing if you want to pay money to get a feature back that they used to offer, which is kinda lousy.
I’m not sure, but years ago, at least. Likely to save on server hosting fees. If you go to download the installer now, you only see the latest version, but you used to see every version.
The only one that sounds good to me, perhaps, are the voting rights. I’d pay for that. Patreon artists and creators do this sort of thing, and if this is something GOG needs to do to get by, then fine by me.
Downloading offline installers/backups, however… That would be locking away a feature that exists now to everyone that has bought a game. That means locking away a feature from customers who have spent money on a product already… Likely for the explicit point of being able to get installers that don’t need an online connection. If they choose to do this, they’d be desfeting their own purpose.
For context; I bought most of my games on GOG. I don’t really buy games anymore, and my Steam library is low absolutely massive, however. Both of those reasons are because I’ve been subbed to Humble Monthly for a few years. But ultimately when I go looking to buy a game, my preference is to buy from GOG specifically because it’s offline and DRM free.
Archiwalny post o anarchistach z Serbii i policyjnych represjach:
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06/09/2009
3 września serbskie władze aresztowały piątkę aktywistów anarchosyndykalistycznych z organizacji Anarho-sindikalistička inicijativa (ASI), w tym obecnego sekretarza międzynarodówki związkowej IWA-AIT. Policja stawia im zarzut „międzynarodowego terroryzmu”.
Cała sprawa ma swoje bezpośrednie źródło w wydarzeniach zeszłego tygodnia, gdy ktoś rzucił butelką z benzyną oraz namalował symbol „A” na greckiej ambasadzie w Belgradzie. Cała akcja spowodowała nieznaczne zniszczenia fasady. W oświadczeniu napisano, że akcji dokonała, nieznana bliżej, grupa „Czarna Ilja”, jako wyraz solidarności z Thodorosem Iliopoulosem – aktywistą greckim, który prowadzi głodówkę w więzieniu.
Ratibor Trivunac, aktywista ASI oraz sekretarz IWA-AIT, pytany przez media jeszcze przed aresztowaniem, czy jego organizacja ma coś wspólnego z atakiem, odpowiedział, że to nie jest w ich stylu. ASI zajmuje się organizacją masowego ruchu pracowniczego. Niedługo później został aresztowany. Wszystkie aresztowane osoby działy dotąd jawnie, Trivunac występował niejednokrotnie w mediach, krytykując rząd, kapitalistów i sprzedajne związki zawodowe, przez co naraził się wielu wpływowym osobom.
Związek Syndykalistów Polski, którego siostrzaną organizacją jest ASI, rozpoczął międzynarodową kampanię solidarnościową. Prosi o wysyłanie listów do serbskich władz z żądaniem uwolnienia zatrzymanych. Adres strony: asi.zsp.net.pl (aby wysłać list należy kliknąć przycisk „Send protest”, a następnie wypełnić formularz z nazwiskiem oraz e-mailem).
I saw a Lemmy post about Super Metroid Redux being a great way to play Super Metroid nowadays, seems like it brings a lot of your desired bells and whistles
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