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GOG - Nostalgia is a Powerful Drug

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Jul 24, 2014.

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    [​IMG]Polygon has an interesting interview with a few staff members from GoG.com. The interview talks about older games, DRM, and the new GoG Galaxy.

    Let's say that you're trying to play Dungeon Keeper, a game that came out in 1997. That piece of software was designed to work with a version of Windows that is seven generations old. There's no earthly reason it should play on a modern computer.

    And yet there are people out there who can make it work.

    Scattered across the internet, devoted fan bases secret that kind of information away. One team in Poland is constantly reaching out to these communities and soliciting their rarified knowledge, collecting and digesting their expertise so that other gamers don't have to. All in the quest to automate the process, so that older games can be played just like new ones; with a single click.

    "If someone is in the community for a game that was released 15 years ago," says Magda Oracz-Chomiuk, "then that's somebody that really loves that game." As the head of product management for GoG.com, she should know. She deals with them every day.

    "It's not about money for them," Oracz-Chomiuk says, "It's just about the games."​
     
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