Blizzard to delist Warcraft 1&2 off GOG

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Chazore said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

One more reason why we really need some game archiving system

By that, do you mean a website?, because Nintendo is going around with Sega and taking all those down atm. If they supported an archive system like Steam has (if you've already purchased it, you can always re-download it whenever), it'd only benefit those who already owned the game, not new customers.

Atm we're SoL when it comes to games preservation, since multiple archives are being taken down or bought out, leaving us with GoG as one of the archive clients out there that's fully legal, everything else is apparently "not legal" in the publisher eyes. 

I honestly think we need more anti-trust pushed on the publishers now more than ever.

By that, I mean something akin to what GOG is doing with their GOG Preservation Program, so making sure that the games are still working on newer hardware an OS in their original form (so no remaster or anything that would change programming) even when they're not for sale anymore - and probably also to be able to redownload the games even if they're not offered for sale anymore.