Making a Game Last Forever

www.stopkillinggames.com/ has just opened, the biggest current effort to stop companies from destroying games forever!

Alpha Protocol…10 Years Later: 4 Years Later

Went from working with COG to working with GOG

piracy has done more to make games last forever than anyone else

In an age where so many IP's can easily fall into the digital black hole of copyright and other bullshit (sad No One Lives Forever noises) this is a huge service. Thank you Raycevick and GOG!

As a professional theatre worker this is absolutely a necessary fight. The amount of works that are destroyed by copyright fights over ownership or production style is depressing. It feels futile, especially in an industry with far less appeal than gaming. But with the crowd of people finally beginning to recognize the importance of preservation, maybe there’s hope. Let us keep our art alive.

I'm so sick of publishers trying to push this "limited time service" with their games, and I'm glad GOG and most of the video game audience are hearing none of it. Great video, as always.

Clive Barker's Jericho, Armies of Exigo, The Battle for Middle-Earth series, Rise of Legends, Duke Nukem - Manhattan Project, Battlefield 2, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Wolfenstein 2009 Man I don't want to forget about the amazing games that are not around anymore

That Lord of War opening is the best most obscure opening to any Youtube video ever. You did it. Man that's a great movie.

When I was a kid, I pirated games because my country was under sanctions and nothing was available. Then I grew up and eagerly bought games to support my favourite developers and franchises. Now I'm back to pirating because support for all those games in nonexistent. Glad to see somebody advocating for the consumers

I'm really glad you shouted out Ross (Accursed Farms) I've been following him for 10+ years and I've been following his steps in trying to stop games from dying and I'm hoping this gives him a boost in viewership not to bump his subscriber count or anything but so that some change actually gets made and we can set a precedent so games will always be playable in the future.

I still need to finish the video, but one thing that struck me throughout the interviews is just, you can feel the happiness coming off of them as their game, seemingly doomed to be forgotten, has gotten to return from the metaphorical dead. It's genuinely really touching.

It's worth noting that spec ops is well preserved as an abandonware title. Anyone who wants to play the game can find it quite easily. Delisting isn't the end. As long as the game can be found, installed, and played by the average person, preservation was successful. And making alpha protocol DRM free, and making it compatible with modern systems, is the benchmark for successful preservation.

Some people might simply see this as shallow promotion, but I think GOG genuinely deserve this sort of coverage for their preservation efforts. Sure they make money from it, but it's something I'm more then happy to finance (when I can) in the current day gaming landscape. This video is dope, and we need more like it for the sake of video game preservation. Awesome work as always <3

That Spec-Ops reminder hurts despite being telegraphed for the whole video. Great writing, man.

People from Poland are very passionate about gaming, as it should be, I love Gog, keep it up my fellow countryman!

Matthew Rorie's Alpha Protocol really deserved a sequel. I would have loved to have seen what some polish and some more horsepower could've done for it. Michael Thorton was ahead of his time.

Point is this isn't just a problem of the gaming industry. Windows terminating support for older versions, Adobe forcing shut downs of older licenses of their catalogue, Apple and Samsung nerfing older products, even car companies charging you for stuff that is already installed on the car you "own" (or even worse the case of the GM EV1). Ownership right now is seriously an illusion that big companies force on us, hoping we're all good with our subpar products that already cost a lot of money to purchase but cost even more to run. We need a serious rewriting of the Copyright laws, that were lobbied into hell by Disney and other powerhouses, we need to stop live services, we need to decriminalise piracy and on top of them all we need to ensure the right to repair and modify. Because if I paid for something, I fucking own that thing.

I fucking love GOG and CDPR's dedication to game preservation. Game preservation should be an industry standard and the amount of games being lost to negligent publishers and developers is disheartening. Now if only GOG can work something out between EA and Lionhead to get their games out of Abandonware status.

Great video! I love that people are starting to seriously fight for games preservation. I wish GOG the best in their mission