Preservation doesn’t work the way you think: it need a context. The best example of preservation are works in Public Domain: but you’re not talking about a store then.
Their mandate is that they’re selling the games with a DRM free installer. If it’s delisted, you can still install that game DRM free on anything else as long as you have the files.
Get a USB stick with a cool design, put the installer on it, yeet it in a video game box, throw some box art on it, and you basically have the physical game.
If it feels like the physical game is something else entirely, but I think their mandate is being lived up to just fine :)
It is, in fact, because the games are only 6 years old. The publisher thinks they’re losing money by selling on gog. And, for people who have already purchased the game on gog, they can still access the downloads.
GoG - the preservation platform… Uh-huh
Preservation doesn’t work the way you think: it need a context. The best example of preservation are works in Public Domain: but you’re not talking about a store then.
They don’t own the games, my friend.
At least I get to keep the delisted games I bought in my account DRM-free.
Should they continue selling licenses they don’t have the rights to?
Oh course not, but the fact this is an outcome for games that are only 6 years old rather flies in the face of their mandate.
Their mandate is that they’re selling the games with a DRM free installer. If it’s delisted, you can still install that game DRM free on anything else as long as you have the files.
Get a USB stick with a cool design, put the installer on it, yeet it in a video game box, throw some box art on it, and you basically have the physical game.
If it feels like the physical game is something else entirely, but I think their mandate is being lived up to just fine :)
It is, in fact, because the games are only 6 years old. The publisher thinks they’re losing money by selling on gog. And, for people who have already purchased the game on gog, they can still access the downloads.
GOG*
Thanks