[game_preservation] Old PC Game Sales for XP/Vista

[Andrew Armstrong]

Man, no, not Steam, not for us preservationists! might as well suggest 
EA's download service, hoho...

I've got to seriously suggest we do a paper or some research on the use 
of online DRM and DRM in general and how it basically makes our jobs 
impossible. :D I was going to do a basic post/wiki page on it, but 
finding actual concrete information on what DRM is applied, company 
policy and so forth is nearly impossible - all the news is bloody vague, 
a nightmare for research on a topic no company wants to literally come 
out with "WE OWN THE RIGHT TO STOP YOU USING OUR STUFF IMMEDIATELY". I 
perhaps will suggest this as a project to investigate - and go out 
journalistic-ly with this SIG's backing to get some information on all 
the DRM currently used. :)

Good Old Games I featured on our news feed when it opened last year, by 
the way :) I've not had the chance to buy anything from it (I have tons 
of games left to play), but they are DRM free, which is awesome! I agree 
prices can be a bit heavy sometimes, but it looks like it'll be a good 
resource if it hangs around (and if it doesn't, anything you have 
downloaded won't magically go poof :) ).

BTW, if no one knows about it (and I'm trying to contact them, but man 
is it slow), Liberated Games still has a catalogue of free games: 
http://liberatedgames.org/

Andrew

Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

> There's also Steam :)

> http://store.steampowered.com/

>

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:35:00 -0400, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> 

> wrote:

>

>> My friend just sent me this website that sells classic PC games for low

>> prices. I'm not sure how this relates to preservation, but it's great 

>> to see

>> a lot of the old titles still available. (Personally, I think some of 

>> the

>> prices should be lower though...)

>> http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/

>>

>

>

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