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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
Wonder if this means that Neverwinter Nights 2, Jade Empire and the Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises would eventually go non-DRM onto GOG?? (I think these are EA, via Bioware...)
Posted June 02, 2011
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dudalb: I just checked my copy of DUngeon Keeper 2 and guess what? It has the same EULA as the one you are screming about. So even if you buy a second hand copy, you are still "signing away your rights".
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mcneil_1: Just wondering, is your copy of Dungeon Keeper 2 the re-released version that came out in 09?
Nope, the original.
Posted June 02, 2011
This is awesome!
Posted June 02, 2011
This rocks. Bring the games on!
Posted June 02, 2011
First Congrats to GOG for getting EA to sign, I'm glad to see such a major publisher join the already impressive list of companies who are participating in a DRM free environment. You already have a great selection of great games that is now going to be even greater!

I have a question about the EULA, and I am sorry if this has already been answered but some of the EULA for the games states that EA will be monitoring our information and using it? It mentions the EA downloader specifically as a way to monitor, and I was wondering if anyone actually has to install the downloader. I apologize if I am not being grammatically correct and explicit, but my worries stem from possible misuses of the data pertinent to me and my family. I don't really see the need for more data than my name and game key and the way I'm reading the EULA really makes me worried about what data is collected and who sees it.

If a GOG rep could answer it would be really appreciated about what info is collected, etc. I loved the games back in the day and would love to buy again but this somewhat is nerve wracking when Sony has been hacked multiple times and EA or its partners(never really mentions) could be hacked.

Please do not devolve the forum into what is and is not a hacker or other items, I merely wish to know about what information if any is collected and distributed.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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Posted June 02, 2011
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tb87670: To all those waiting on Alpha Centauri, I did upload my discs I ordered from Amazon in mint condition to demonoid. It includes the original and the expansion discs. Not piracy per-se since you can't legally buy or find the game anywhere anymore. Sold-Out Games in England prints a copy but that company seems iffy, making new discs of old games then selling them for 5 pounds each reeks of illegal bs.

I also uploaded Starship Troopers Terran Ascendancy, now THAT was hard to get my hands on and I will guarantee you can't buy a disc of it anywhere without paying an extreme price.
... Uh, Sold-Out Software is a COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE COMPANY that has rereleased software by dozens of companies. Mastertronic bought the company - guess what, their business was budget games from the start.

http://www.mastertronic.com/productlist.asp?productLabelID=1&mainstyle=somain

You see all that? All those games are completely legal. All those games for five pounds each. THAT is a company who knows its business well.

And you're bragging about pirating a game by a company that just started selling games here? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, SERIOUSLY.
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Posted June 02, 2011
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dudalb: Pssst..no onetell those upset about the EA EULA that they probably agreed to one just like it when they installed their Microsoft or Apple operating system, or when they use Word or Word Perfect or any other BUsiness software, or when they installed just about any game they owned.
A lot of companies do not actually have the EULA on the install disc,instead it is in the manual. That is what all the close spaced legalese in the back of many manuals are.
I hate a lot of the modern forms of DRM as much as anybody, but to get scared about a freaking EULA is dumb.
Even linux isn't going to get you completely off the hook. An open source license is still a license. I'd also love to hear what web browser people are using that didn't require an EULA to install.

There is a license tied to pretty much every piece of software. Honestly, that's kind of the point. I consider myself an honest person, but I feel absolutely no shame just clicking through pretty much all of them. Reading and carefully considering every single EULA would eat up half my life, so they can't reasonably expect anyone to do it.

Even the EA legal team doesn't read and carefully consider every EULA they come across. How do I know that? Because if they did, they would never have time concoct their ridiculously byzantine EULAs. It's a paradox: if people who write EULAs actually read EULAs, then they would have no time to write EULA's, leaving no EULAs for them to read, thus freeing up their time to write more EULAs. So, the solution to EULAs is EULAs...... maybe I just need to sit down :)

Bottom line: with no DRM they are impossible to enforce, and no one actually expects you to spend time worrying about them.


On the other hand, the expansion to SM:AC is worth worrying about. It added a bunch of new factions. The varied factions are a big part of what makes Alpha Centauri so much fun. Playing as the tree-huggers provides a different game experience than playing as the Morganites or the Data Angels. Sure, they weren't especially well balanced, but so what? Not every game needs to be designed around hyper-competitive multiplayer.
Posted June 02, 2011
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dudalb: Speaking of Sid Meire games, with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War upon us, a GOG release of Sid Meire's Civil war games...Gettysburg and Antietam..would be nice.
Nice! NICE?!?!

That would be best thing ever. I would cry. No really I would. Those games are classics and very hard to find.
Posted June 02, 2011
When you guys add Bioforge on here, will it have any additional content? I remember there was going to be a special release of the game, but it was cancelled. I think it was called Bioforge Plus?
Posted June 02, 2011
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the crusader and wing commander games coming out on GOG, such fond memories - hard to believe I will be able to play them again.

GOG is a hero to all old school gamers everywhere.
Posted June 02, 2011
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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.
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GameRager: 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.
It's still crap controls. there is basically nothing you do to make it not cringe-inducing. it's basically an adventure game control scheme that is employed in an action game setting where you need to act very quickly all the time.

the whole game is like trying to play quake with the control scheme of sanitarium.

but, it's still awesome, and has an amazing soundtrack. you just have to fight through it. :)
Post edited June 02, 2011 by tacossmellgood
Posted June 02, 2011
I wanted EA and I got EA thanks GOG!

Crusader and Ultima Underworld are day one purchases. Not sure about Wing Commander, I never played any of them back in the day. I'll watch some let's plays.

Sadly I don't dig strategy games much, so Alpha Centauri and Dungeon Keeper are no-gos. I don't even know what Magic Carpet is.
Posted June 02, 2011
Oh god....... In the past few months I've spent over $100 dollars on old Origin systems games......and now they're on GOG....[Sniff]...DAMN YOU GOG!!!!DAMN YOU AND ALL OF YOUR GREAT GAMES AT AMAZINGLY AFFORDABLE PRICES!!!!!
Posted June 02, 2011
wow, impressive snag gog
Posted June 02, 2011
Awesome sauce!

Just one question... does Ultima 1 + 2 count as two of the upcoming 25 EA games, or just 1 becaise it's a "bundle"?
Post edited June 02, 2011 by tritone
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