KatTruewalker: And Gog Galaxy won't?
See, here's the thing. If you were any remotely informed like you should have been, you would have known by now Galaxy is not only optional, it works as a multiplayer server host for many actual old games, for which, by the way, there are already many third party hosts of servers for.
KatTruewalker: The Potco community of pirate rpg'ers is alive and well as you can see by the number of votes for the wish.
Irrelevant to my interests.
KatTruewalker: YES - we know the game has gone
YES - we've tried the petitions, writing to Disney, publicising the game, resurrecting it, moving on to other games.
YES - we know there is probably no chance at all that Gog would even give it a second glance
YES - Potco was a pretty horrific game, graphically and mechanically but we paid to play it because of the community there. Whatever Disney did, they enabled the building of a strong, caring, enthusiastic community of teens, tweens and adults. Plus the fact you could sail with a crew and the combat was pretty fun too.
YES - we now realise that the Gog community is willing to pass judgement on anything that doesn't fit their notions of how or what Gog is about or even what constitutes a good game.
YES - we know we should 'get a life', 'get over it', 'move on'.
Well then, if you thought GOG community was rude, you should have tried the Sony Online forums. Your community would have been horrified.
KatTruewalker: Even so. We'll keep trying to get some remnant of this game back. It was unique.
And we will be here to fight it.
KatTruewalker: What brought me here initially was the search for companies that were in the business of resurrecting 'Good old Games'.
Am I missing something? You game is not even close to "old" as some of GOG's games are and even less so good. You yourself said the game was a mess with the only thing going for it being the community. That is no basis for a good game.
KatTruewalker: Gog having a relationship with Disney already, added to that impetus.
If you had informed yourself, that relationship is with Lucas Arts specifically and only for a limited number of games.
KatTruewalker: Who's to say they won't want to resurrect old mmo's AT SOME POINT?
If and when that happens, GOG has to make sure it has a big enough user base to suffer the loss of many people leaving for good. But back to this, I say it won't happen any time soon. Why? Because when stores like Humble Store, DotEmu, and GOG are thriving with DRM free games, why change and hurt your business in a monopoly held by Steam?
KatTruewalker: and adding more modern, more multi-player games to their store.
They are adding indie games, yes, but that is because many users of this community DEMANDED these indie games, veteran users, might I add. As for multiplayer games, check your facts. The vast majority of multiplayer games are old games with few indie ones that support this component being multiplayer.
KatTruewalker: They're wanting to challenge steam as a platform, their Galaxy will allow cross platform play of modern and old multi-player games.
Oh, and this is where GOG will thrive in its pursuit due to being DRM-FREE. Here's the thing, dude. If you had any notion of politics you would understand that the addition of an MMO to the store would drastically change GOG's policy and stance on DRM. If GOG changes that, then publishers will start pushing for DRM'd single player games, because why not? It's a matter of staying true to your creed and loyal to the actual user base that makes you money.
KatTruewalker: We grasp at straws. We'd be happy with a multi-player, we'd be happy if the code was released so we could resurrect it ourselves (it hasn't been). We'd be happy if there was at least some dialogue about it, but there isn't, we've been cast adrift with no closure.
Tell me, how often do you see big companies like Disney giving their code away for free just to please someone? I've never personally seen this happen.
KatTruewalker: All I can say is, you'd have to have been there to know what we're talking about.
I don't think so. I was there when many of the multiplayer games I've played on consoles closed their servers and when entire communities fell. Yours is no different.