If you own it on Steam or Epic it's yours until the day they go out of business.Can I still play it on a new machine in the Epic launcher later?Forever?
Can I still play it on a new machine in the Epic launcher later?
If you have previously purchased it you should still be able to download it on most storefronts unless told otherwise.
This is why I wish GOG would get more IPs at least then you get to download offline versions of everything and get to keep them.
Getting a DRM-free copy from GOG is pretty much the only way you're 100% safe from losing a game when the storefront closes or a key is revoked, or having to live with the music getting patched out etc. Trouble is you need a lot of hard drive space to store your archived installers.
That's true but out of the 100 plus games I have on GOG I've whittled that list down to around 40ish games that I really would like to keep the rest I can just get online
Plenty of keys have lost their function over the years
Indeed, that's why GOG is so precious to me haha
Or buying the physical release. (I know not everything gets one, but Resurgence did.)
Man, I miss when I that was an option for PC games. I had to stop when the copy protection became ridiculous, with rootkit DRM and online authorisation that let you install a game up to three times! Some physical releases just don't work any more because they turned the servers off.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2653940/view/509610386809426804?l=english
It's dead, Jim.
At least on Steam, still available on Epic in the UK at the mo.
It's dead, Jim.
At least on Steam, still available on Epic in the UK at the mo.
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Ironically in this modern online world, the only people who never have to deal with games being delisted or insane dodgy drm, are those who sail the high seas.
That's been true ever since codewheels and manual checks.
If companies offered a superior product, nobody would resort to sailing the high seas.
IIRC, games purchased on Steam will still appear and be re-downloadable even after de-listing.
Some "high seas" issues also stem from lack of availability through geo-locked exclusive licensing.
One of the most egregious examples of this was region-based physical media. Back in the days of DVD's, it may have made some kind of sense, due to different standards of television technology across the world - NTSC, PAL, PAL-M, SECAM, ME-SECAM, etc., with different screen resolutions, interlaced scan lines and field/frame rates. The existence of region-free discs and players essentially made that concern obsolete, but the concept continued with next gen BRD technology, which now all decode on standard Hi-Def TV's with no regional tech limitations. Yet these counter-intuitive regional restrictions still exist, albeit to a lesser extent.
Drop these artificial walls and licensing games and it will serve to severely curtail illicit piracy. Just yet another case of corporations being penny-wise and dollar-foolish.
One of the most egregious examples of this was region-based physical media. Back in the days of DVD's, it may have made some kind of sense, due to different standards of television technology across the world - NTSC, PAL, PAL-M, SECAM, ME-SECAM, etc., with different screen resolutions, interlaced scan lines and field/frame rates. The existence of region-free discs and players essentially made that concern obsolete, but the concept continued with next gen BRD technology, which now all decode on standard Hi-Def TV's with no regional tech limitations. Yet these counter-intuitive regional restrictions still exist, albeit to a lesser extent.
Drop these artificial walls and licensing games and it will serve to severely curtail illicit piracy. Just yet another case of corporations being penny-wise and dollar-foolish.
I haven't heard this before. Can you give some examples?Plenty of keys have lost their function over the years
Lots of websites are saying that Resurgence is gone. I don't know if they are writing clickbait articles or if the writers are so young they genuinely don't know that physical media exists. Resurgence will always be available for sale, just like Strategic Operations Simulator will always be available for sale. On eBay.
It's already gone from the XBox Live store. Just checked last night when I tried to get it, thinking I still had some time. After doing some digging, I found that they were the first ones to drop it (of course). 
There was another amazing game I played on my iPad years ago called "M.U.L.E. Returns", which was a remastered version of one of my all-time favorite games (M.U.L.E.) from the 80's 8-bit days. One day, it just went away from the Apple Store and stopped functioning entirely after a couple of subsequent iOS updates bricked it. I was bigly pissed.
It is all quite fucking idiotic.
There was another amazing game I played on my iPad years ago called "M.U.L.E. Returns", which was a remastered version of one of my all-time favorite games (M.U.L.E.) from the 80's 8-bit days. One day, it just went away from the Apple Store and stopped functioning entirely after a couple of subsequent iOS updates bricked it. I was bigly pissed.
It is all quite fucking idiotic.
Ellison's killing Star Trek across all media. Excessive licensing fees will just kill off any interest in making future games.
This is really nothing new. Exclusive rights to Trek IP have always been ridiculously cost-prohibitive. It’s one of the main reasons that FASA lost the rights to the Trek RPG going back to the 80’s. It’s one of the biggest causes of the garage model kit cottage industry back in the 90’s and 00’s. Ellison is just this week’s turn of the wheel. This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
The Prodigy game was delisted some time ago, and that was one of the handful of Trek games that allowed couch multiplayer (along with the SNES/32X Starfleet Academy, Star Trek Invasion, the PS2 port of Elite Force, the 2013 Star Trek Kelvin game on consoles, and Star Trek Encounters).
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