PorkaMorka
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I find it really hard to believe they would do this for a end of beta announcement.
It sends exactly the sort of message that they'd want to avoid sending, making the service seem fly by night and less reliable.
If it's a marketing stunt it's one of the dumber ones.
A more likely scenario is implied by this post from their twitter:
" Sometimes it's really hard being DRM-free... hard to keep things the way they are and keep management and publishers happy 9:25 AM Sep 17th via web "
Corporations love to protect their IP even if they don't have much in the way of plans for it at the moment.
Perhaps it was something like that one time when Wizards of the Coast randomly decided to end all PDF sales and just sit on their old IP.[1]
Something like that with old game IPs would hardly be shocking, dumb yes, but dumb in a predictable kind of way.
[1]http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14693.html
P.S. For the record, I just thought I'd better get in the obligatory "fuck GOG scum, keep abandonware illegal and free"
It sends exactly the sort of message that they'd want to avoid sending, making the service seem fly by night and less reliable.
If it's a marketing stunt it's one of the dumber ones.
A more likely scenario is implied by this post from their twitter:
" Sometimes it's really hard being DRM-free... hard to keep things the way they are and keep management and publishers happy 9:25 AM Sep 17th via web "
Corporations love to protect their IP even if they don't have much in the way of plans for it at the moment.
Perhaps it was something like that one time when Wizards of the Coast randomly decided to end all PDF sales and just sit on their old IP.[1]
Something like that with old game IPs would hardly be shocking, dumb yes, but dumb in a predictable kind of way.
[1]http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14693.html
P.S. For the record, I just thought I'd better get in the obligatory "fuck GOG scum, keep abandonware illegal and free"