[game_preservation] Old PC Game Sales for XP/Vista

[Rachel Donahue]

True, I wouldn't consider it preservation. But speaking purely as a  
gamer, it's still a decent place for a king's quest fix!

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On Jul 25, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>  
wrote:


> 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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