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| 23 SEP 2010 at 2:18pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By markornikov (23 SEP 2010 9:51am)
i should have been playing still life on monday, but gog decided i had to wait a few days.
Do what I did. Get Still Life from Dotemu.
http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/156/still-life
It was actually a little cheaper than GOG, even after applying Paypal's money conversion rate.
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 2:26pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
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Joined: 26 APR 2005
Location: PT
Status : Offline | I didn't know about doteum... they seem to have a few interesting games (also some really oldies in there ). How's your experience with them, Jenny100?
Bummer.... The GOG site is still really slow and, sometimes, not responding well. [smiley=zombie.gif] I guess it's because there's a lot of users frantically downloading their games, right now!
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 4:59pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | My experience with Dotemu is recent. I first heard about them a few months ago over at Adventuregamers, but this is the first time I've bought from them.
The Still Life installer downloaded as a single .exe file. Double-clicking it decompressed it and started the installer. The decompressing part took longer than the installing part on my computer. The installer gave a choice of English, German, Spanish, French, or Italian, so it may be a multi-language version. The game seems to work OK as far as I've played into it, and starts up very quickly without the DRM.
Anyway, so far my experience with Dotemu is good.
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 6:20pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | I may have missed the information in previous threads, but does anyone know how GOG got the various companies to allow the downloading of non-DRM versions of their games? Would seem to me to have been a somewhat complicated process.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 7:08pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Location: US, Texas
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Dumb PR stunts aside, I'm happy to see that GOG is still in business. I like their business model that offers updated classic PC games you can download as many times as needed with no DRM.
Also, thanks to Jenny for posting the DotEmu link as an alternate site. It looks like a great deal too.
Cheers, Terry
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 7:15pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By SirDave (23 SEP 2010 6:19pm)
I may have missed the information in previous threads, but does anyone know how GOG got the various companies to allow the downloading of non-DRM versions of their games? Would seem to me to have been a somewhat complicated process.
Not sure how complicated it is to simply remove / turn-off the DRM check, but I assume that updating games for newer systems requires a significant amount of time / work / money.
Either way, they obviously made financial agreements with the copyright holders to legally sell the games and that also costs money. So there are actually three different sets of initial expenses involved (plus the cost of ongoing web-servers for unlimited downloads), which makes the super-low prices even more amazing.
Cheers, Terry
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 7:47pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (23 SEP 2010 2:17pm)
Originally Posted By markornikov (23 SEP 2010 9:51am)
i should have been playing still life on monday, but gog decided i had to wait a few days.
Do what I did. Get Still Life from Dotemu.
http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/156/still-life
It was actually a little cheaper than GOG, even after applying Paypal's money conversion rate.
thanks for the tip, they've got great stuff in their catalogue
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 9:06pm |
StilerJourneyman
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Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, TN
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (23 SEP 2010 6:19pm)
I may have missed the information in previous threads, but does anyone know how GOG got the various companies to allow the downloading of non-DRM versions of their games? Would seem to me to have been a somewhat complicated process.
At first a lot of publishers didn't sign with them because of the no drm, however after they had a few games and could show the sales figures and things to publishers for the games and things it turned more onto them.
Some of the deals have taken literally years for gog to sign, and some have fell through as well (IE The Colin McRae games, operation flashpoint, etc).
Basically, after they got the first few publishers to sign up, and take the leap of faith with them, when they got the hard earned sales figures and other data to show to other companies "hey, this is what kind of sales you could expect with your old games which you no longer sale/make money from."
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| 24 SEP 2010 at 12:50am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Stiler (23 SEP 2010 9:06pm)
Originally Posted By SirDave (23 SEP 2010 6:19pm)
I may have missed the information in previous threads, but does anyone know how GOG got the various companies to allow the downloading of non-DRM versions of their games? Would seem to me to have been a somewhat complicated process.
At first a lot of publishers didn't sign with them because of the no drm, however after they had a few games and could show the sales figures and things to publishers for the games and things it turned more onto them.
Some of the deals have taken literally years for gog to sign, and some have fell through as well (IE The Colin McRae games, operation flashpoint, etc).
Basically, after they got the first few publishers to sign up, and take the leap of faith with them, when they got the hard earned sales figures and other data to show to other companies "hey, this is what kind of sales you could expect with your old games which you no longer sale/make money from."
Hope springs eternal - maybe they'll all wake up (doubt it though).
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| 25 SEP 2010 at 8:18pm |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
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Location: GR
Status : Offline | So it was a marketing ploy after all. I don't like it, but as long as they stay true to their "No DRM" policy, they can count on my custom.
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