tfishell: Do you prefer to buy as many games as possible on Steam, to keep all your games in one place? Or you don't really care about that?
specialdestruction: I try to buy as many games as possible on gog xD
games that are not on gog will be bought on steam
how do you handle this?
dudalb: So,e pof the games in the OP like NOLF are in legal limbo.
Others like the lOTR games have licence issues. The EA Middle earth games are a good example. EA no longer has the licence and can no longer sell the Battle for Middle Earth games. Same applies to DUNE games. Franchise licences chage hands all the time.
specialdestruction: then someone should renew or buy the license as it happened with other games. there is always a way... this is the purest example for videogame preservation :)
In the case of LOTRm another company bught the licence. For whatever reason, EA chose not to revew the licence.
Never forget, the game business is a business. Game comnaies are in it to make a profit. I guess EA thought that the furure sales of the LOTR games would not justify the cost of retaining the licence.
specialdestruction: I try to buy as many games as possible on gog xD
games that are not on gog will be bought on steam
how do you handle this? then someone should renew or buy the license as it happened with other games. there is always a way... this is the purest example for videogame preservation :)
dnovraD: I see. And to whom should we pay out the 6+ digit number to? That licence alone won't get us much in terms of the games, either as the original publication rights are still owned by their respective companties.
In the case of the MIddle Earth games,pretty clear that EA, when it was licence renewel time, decided future sales of LOTR games did not justify the cost of revewing the licence. EA;s whole interest was based onthe sucess of the movies, and whne the mvoies became more or less history EA felt sales would not justify the cost of licence revewel.
dnovraD: I see. And to whom should we pay out the 6+ digit number to? That licence alone won't get us much in terms of the games, either as the original publication rights are still owned by their respective companties.
Gudadantza: I have a doubt, what are you exactly darvond? a disillusionist, or a mere near trolling kid? there is no thread were youa are not here to be the toxic of the month. Really mate, so much no sense cynism will be harmful for your life, believe me.
No, he is somebody who understands how the real world works: Game companies,like every other game compnay, is in it to make a profit..and there is nothing wrong with that; if you don;t make a profit you don't last long in the real world.
