Posted January 25, 2017
I bought SWAT4 on the original Direct2Drive way back in the day but never actually got around to playing it. Today, seeing the game on GOG, I finally decided to try to install it and of course, the original activation servers are gone.
Is there any way GOG would ever be able to do some kind of "reclaim your game" thing for abandoned D2D games? I still have the CD key. The same thing happened to the D2D version of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, and I was only able to play my old copy after installing a fan patch that removed the DRM. I don't know if a similar patch exists for SWAT4.
Is there any way GOG would ever be able to do some kind of "reclaim your game" thing for abandoned D2D games? I still have the CD key. The same thing happened to the D2D version of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, and I was only able to play my old copy after installing a fan patch that removed the DRM. I don't know if a similar patch exists for SWAT4.