GOG have announced some bad news across two separate announcements, with a total of 29 games that are going to be delisted this month. This means you'll still be able to download them if you own them, but no new purchases on any of them.
The first is from Adult Swim with these games vanishing from GOG on September 30th (time TBC):
GOG said they will "do our best to try and bring them back".
The bigger list comes from Meridian4 where 27 titles will be gone on September 20th at 1PM UTC:
- Boom Blaster
- Boss Rush Bundle
- Bucket Knight
- Creepy Tale 3
- Edge of Galaxy
- Full Moon Rush
- Ghost Blood
- Ghoul Castle
- Hero Survival
- Heroines
- Judas
- Kill Fish
- Oxygen Cocktail
- Picklock
- Probo Rush
- Red Dust
- Replikator
- Starless
- Strike Force Kitty
- The Dark Prophecy
- The Wizard And The Slug
- Ultragoodness
- Ultragoodness 2
- Ultragoodness Bundle
- Viruz
- Warforwards
- Witchcrafty
Two of those are bundles of the other games. The article originally said it was 31 in total so updated to correct.
For all of those GOG simply said "I can't share any more details about it". That's a pretty abrupt delisting too for the Meridian4 titles, giving only a couple of days notice.
If you've been on the fence about wanting to pick up any of those from GOG, now is the time.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: monyarmWhat does delisting mean in this case. If you own any of these games will they dissapear from your account? Or does it simply mean that you won't be able to see them in the search/store and buy them after they're delisted?When a game gets delisted, they're not available to purchase anymore at the store and when searching for the delisted game. As for owning the delisted game, as long as you've purchased it before it was removed, you should still be able to access it from your library on GOG (and Steam).
slaapliedje Sep 19
Quoting: ShmerlYup, even if you have physical media, if it has DRM on it, there's potential for an OS update that'll ban that DRM (safedisc anyone?) so all those physical disks are now useless (well, unless you know where NoCD cracks are).Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThis is the most obvious downside to going all-digital, and a big part of the reason console manufactures are pushing this for the future... All-digital means you don't "own" anything and can have your purchase taken away at any time.
Wrong. It's the most obvious downside of using DRM. All digital DRM-free allows you to make your own backups, and no one can take it away at any time then any more than physical media you store it on. So if anything, GOG is the example of why DRM-free is important to prevent that.
Cyba.Cowboy Sep 19
Quoting: slaapliedjeYup, even if you have physical media, if it has DRM on it, there's potential for an OS update that'll ban that DRM (safedisc anyone?) so all those physical disks are now useless (well, unless you know where NoCD cracks are).
Yeah, but it's super-easy to make "backup" copies of physical media - heck, I just got my hands on the very last title in the MCU today, and I'm "ripping" the entire collection to my home theater as I type this; or, if you want to keep it on-point, it's relatively easy to extra a game from a disc and / or find a so-called "no CD crack".
Last edited by Cyba.Cowboy on 19 September 2024 at 3:58 pm UTC
slaapliedje Sep 21
Quoting: Cyba.CowboyEasy for us; less so for your average person.Quoting: slaapliedjeYup, even if you have physical media, if it has DRM on it, there's potential for an OS update that'll ban that DRM (safedisc anyone?) so all those physical disks are now useless (well, unless you know where NoCD cracks are).
Yeah, but it's super-easy to make "backup" copies of physical media - heck, I just got my hands on the very last title in the MCU today, and I'm "ripping" the entire collection to my home theater as I type this; or, if you want to keep it on-point, it's relatively easy to extra a game from a disc and / or find a so-called "no CD crack".
Quoting: alka.setzerThe issue with GOG with respect to Linux and publisher support is mostly down to:this can make me gone with Steam Versions of GOG games, as former can be more playable in Linux than latter's versions(of latter uses GOG galaxy instead offline)
- No galaxy support for Linux, i.e. no cloud saves, no online features. This means two versions or extra code to handle it, which in turn requires validation and what not. Steam at least is consistent in their support of platforms and available features.
- The upload/packaging process for Windows/MacOS and Linux games is/was different and was specially cumbersome
- Linux as a platform is not unified (see https://docs.gog.com/linux-guidelines/ for gog's guidelines), the safest bet is to pack everything as a static library (which again is a pain). Steam bypasses some of these with their Steam Runtime
- GOG in general is a small store (10% of PC sales of cyberpunk was from GOG)
- Linux for gaming is still a niche
As for the delisting of games. Happens all the time, I have the original Fallout's on my account (slug id 1) which were delisted, I can download the games any time. Eventually the games got back on GOG and the original ones were renamed to Classic.
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