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Discussion in 'General Gaming' started by Chuck Norris, Feb 2, 2012.

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  1. cvv Arcane Patron

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    Haaallelujah.
     
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  2. cvv Arcane Patron

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    Umm, soo how do I....where's the autoupdate?
     
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  3. LESS T_T Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    No update for me, either.

    Anyway, this looks quite interesting: http://www.gog.com/galaxy?pp=cb4e5208b4cd87268b208e49452ed6e89a68e0b8

     
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  4. CthuluIsSpy Arcane

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    Tried the client.
    I'm quite pleased with it.
    It is a bit rough, but for an alpha its fairly solid.

    Just a few quirks -

    1) For some reason, the extras screen is in french. Everything else is in english

    2) Tracking only works if you run the game from the client.

    Other than that, I haven't noticed anything serious.

    Edit : Oooh beta went live.
    How do I upgrade my alpha client?
     
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  5. Blackstaff Arbiter

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    You just need to wait. The alpha is supposed to update itself eventually...
     
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  6. Alienman Arcane Patron

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    For the people in the know, will this galaxy thing replace the stand-alone drm games in the long run? Is there a plan to do that? Creating a new Steam?
    Kinda worried here.
     
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  7. vonAchdorf Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    They will be phasing out the downloader, but not the download from their website. And why are you worried? I hope that they create a "new Steam" on regards to easy patching and multiplayer.
     
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  8. Alienman Arcane Patron

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    Because I want the games totally drm-free
     
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  9. vonAchdorf Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    They are. You can download them with galaxy (or from their website) and run them / backup them without the need for Galaxy.
     
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  10. Alienman Arcane Patron

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    Okay good, I already knew that though. Just not trusting gog fully I guess. Why create something like galaxy if not for slowly introducing their own kind of drm? Maybe I'm just cynical :)
     
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  11. JudasIscariot Arcane Patron

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    It's an OPTIONAL client for those that want the convenience of autoupdates and the like. Look, we're not introducing any sort of DRM here and yes, I know it's hard to trust these kind of statements due to what happened in the industry in the past but if we did introduce some DRM I think it would be a serious death knell for us if we did so.

    tl;dr OPTIONAL, we know the meaning of this word and we totally didn't just look it up in the dictionary :P

    You can still use Galaxy as a fancy version of the GOG Downloader and download your offline installers and your extras and not use it if all you are going to be doing is playing games in single player :)
     
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  12. Alienman Arcane Patron

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    JudasIscariot Okay, thanks man, I guess you work for gog? Sounds good...
    [​IMG]
    ...for now
     
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  13. Niektory one of some Patron

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    http://www.gog.com/galaxy#glx-faq?pp=cb4e5208b4cd87268b208e49452ed6e89a68e0b8
     
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  14. Grim Monk Arcane

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    [Perception]     GOG is worried about Retroism/Night Dive.
    They've been running around and buying old game license rights for themselves instead of just cutting deals with IP Owners.
    This is a warning shot across their bows.
     
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  15. pippin Guest

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    More options

    More options

    Let's hope potato hitmen succeed in buying the NOLF franchise.
     
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  16. Grim Monk Arcane

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    Goldbox is tied to the AD&D IP so you would have to cut a new licensing deal with Hasbro/WotC.
    I'm hazarding that is the main issue with any re-release...

    The source code was released ages ago.
    There are already a bunch of Freeware Remakes of the series:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Panthers
    Link:
    http://www.matrixgames.com/products/297/downloads/


    Links:
    http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_Workshop/WW2/WW2_page.html
    http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_Workshop/MBT/MBT_page.html
     
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  17. zwanzig_zwoelf Guest

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    More options

    More options

    :retarded:
    I was talking about publishing your own games. Guess I should've been more specific.
     
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  18. Clockwork Knight Arcane

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    That's not a wise idea...

    Show Spoiler
    [​IMG]
     
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  19. tuluse Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    Yet all of the post 96 D&D games are available. I'm guess D&D rights pre-WotC are actually more complicated and that combined with SSI's demise makes this doubly difficult.
     
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  20. vonAchdorf Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    http://www.gog.com/indie
     
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  21. zwanzig_zwoelf Guest

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    More options

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    That's what I'm talking about, but there are always a few pitfalls here and there, so I thought Judas could educate me on the matter a little bit.
     
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  22. Nomad_Blizz Augur

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    [​IMG]

    Hmm, this could be a useful feature. I hope valve is taking notes.
     
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  23. vonAchdorf Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    On Steam a developer can use the "beta patch" system for that already. E.g. Paradox let you rollback to the previous patch version because they always break stuff in their new     patches.
     
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  24. Grim Monk Arcane

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    Different licensing deal stemming from Interplay which later sold the rights to Atari.
    Hasbro eventually got them back due to Atari's mismanagement and is now listed as the publisher...
     
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  25. Nomad_Blizz Augur

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    Users should be able to rollback on their own as well. Recently, Rockstar's new patch for GTA V broke a number of mods (I think it's fixed now). What happens if devs don't use that feature and you're left with a broken game?
     
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