Posted October 28, 2015
timppu: The article is from February apparently, and there were discussions about that here too.
Someone suggested (hoped?) that the reason Night Dive was unable to acquire the rights for NOLF was because GOG.com was in the talks getting them instead. Wishful thinking at this point, maybe.
Nowadays it seems GOG and ND are partly competing with each other, trying to acquire the rights for some lost games, e.g. GOG.com acquired the SSI games while ND acquired many others; yet at the same time they do some collaboration as well.
gOg have never aqiered the rights to any game, this is what I consider the main flaw in thei buisness plan and why ND succeed where gOg fails. gOg try to convince the rightholders to release a game (with technical assistance), nothing else. Inthis regards, gOg and ND are not competitors. ND is a publiser, gOg is a storefront.Someone suggested (hoped?) that the reason Night Dive was unable to acquire the rights for NOLF was because GOG.com was in the talks getting them instead. Wishful thinking at this point, maybe.
Nowadays it seems GOG and ND are partly competing with each other, trying to acquire the rights for some lost games, e.g. GOG.com acquired the SSI games while ND acquired many others; yet at the same time they do some collaboration as well.