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Posted June 02, 2011
The biggest announcement in GOG.com's history is a fact! Electronic Arts grants access to its deep back catalogue of classic franchises via yours truly GOG.com!

In a ground-breaking, earthshaking, and jaw-dropping deal we've managed to sign with EA and will be releasing more than 25 legendary classics from the globally renowned publisher. With today’s announcement three widely known and much awaited brands get the revival treatment from GOG.com: Wing Commander: Privateer, Dungeon Keeper and Ultima Underworld 1+2.

We will be adding more than 25 titles from EA over the next few months, so the games will be unveiled gradually, but we can already reveal that the next upcoming titles from this huge deal are: Crusader: No remorse, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Magic Carpet.

While the agreement between Electronic Arts and GOG.com brings back many acclaimed and well known franchises, it doesn’t include the much anticipated System Shock or Syndicate series at this time. After releasing the first six Electronic Arts classics, we will take a break from the concentrated awesome until later in the summer.
Posted June 02, 2011
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deshadow52: I would like to give my congratulations to GoG and their success of acquiring EA and i think many of us agree that GoG has climbed their biggest hill and any hill after it is going to be puny in comparison.

Now I would like to make a request, I would like the Command and Conquer games added to the catalog whether it's 5.99 or 9.99 I don't really care as long as they appear on here I'm happy. So please consider my request, please :).
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mcneil_1: I hope they can get the C&C soundtracks as well.
+1 on this.
Posted June 02, 2011
Not the deal with Lucasarts I was hoping for but EA would have been my second choice :) Hopefully with EA on board that means we won't have to wait long for a Lucasarts announcement (X-Wing!).
Posted June 02, 2011
Wonderful news! Great job, GOG!
Posted June 02, 2011
I've been waiting for the Crusader: No Regret/Remorse/recourse etc, and Alpha Centuari will be great. Keep up the good work.
Posted June 02, 2011
Enough about the EULA. This is awesome for GOG, as someone who has been around since the Beta, I am extremely happy today! Go GOG!!
Posted June 02, 2011
I wonder does the Crusader: No Remorse also include No Regret?
Posted June 02, 2011
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mcneil_1: I wonder does the Crusader: No Remorse also include No Regret?
They're seprate games actually. Gog might pair them but who knows.
Posted June 02, 2011
Theme Park, Wing Commander Kilrathi Saga, WC: Prophecy GOLD, and WC IV DVD. Please.
Posted June 02, 2011
Congratulations GoG!

And don't forget SystemShock (copyrights owned by the Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc.) :-)
Posted June 02, 2011
I always wanted to play Lands of Lore.
Posted June 02, 2011
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tacossmellgood: "it doesn't include...System Shock or Syndicate."

i thought this was too good to be true.

"at this time"

so either 1. you're just lying
2. EA is dicking around with reviving those franchises and there is something preventing their release here (another company has the rights tied up or the timing is bad for promotional reasons)
or
3. EA has an exclusivity agreement with another digital distribution platform for these franchises, at least for a certain period of time.
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rjspring: Give it time, GOG knows what the community wants and will do their best to deliver.
Oh, absolutely. I have no doubt that GOG wants System Shock and Syndicate just as much as the rest of us, they are mostly a bunch of old school gamers. :)

I suppose what i'm really afraid of is that the rights to these titles (and many others) are tied up in legal limbo.
There has been a huge franchise reboot trend going on lately, so i wouldn't be surprised if some of the older IP battles aren't being rekindled, so to speak.
Posted June 02, 2011
Wow... EA. Congrats, guys!
Posted June 02, 2011
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mcneil_1: I wonder does the Crusader: No Remorse also include No Regret?
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GameRager: They're seprate games actually. Gog might pair them but who knows.
i have the second one on disk, and i remember having a hell of time getting to work on a modern system. it came out in that mid-late 90's windows black-hole where everything was written for a different version of windows and they weren't compatible.
i think i had to manually edit some of the code to get it working, it was a pain.

i just looked it up and it looks like it was a DOS game. i guess my troubles were limited to the patch because i have the original disk, not the collection or gold version that has the bug-fixes already. but it sucked trying to get it working, i'm sure of that.
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Posted June 02, 2011
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GameRager: They're seprate games actually. Gog might pair them but who knows.
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tacossmellgood: i have the second one on disk, and i remember having a hell of time getting to work on a modern system. it came out in that mid-late 90's windows black-hole where everything was written for a different version of windows and they weren't compatible.
i think i had to manually edit some of the code to get it working, it was a pain.
I'm glad there are key mappers now so I can actually play it with useable keymaps instead of the weird scheme they employed back then.
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