GOG's Game Preservation Program Faces Legal and Technical Challenges
By
PaulHoule
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
GOG's Preservation Program, announced in November, aims to maintain hundreds of games on modern systems even if the company loses sales rights. The initiative faces unexpected challenges including legal complexities, technical hurdles with old code, and the need for private investigators to track down rights holders. Despite difficulties, GOG remains committed to preserving abandoned games for future generations.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe purpose is to create a hundreds-long list of games that the Polish CD Projekt subsidiary will commit to constantly maintaining, even—it turns out—if the GOG storefront loses the rights to sell them.
A lifelong commitment to preserve games, no matter how abandoned they might be by their original publishers.
And while the project is very definitely pushing forward, it's proving to be a lot more complicated than anyone anticipated.
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