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GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics

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161 points m463 | 4 comments | 14 Nov 24 06:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.635s | source
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krige ◴[14 Nov 24 08:39 UTC] No.42134227[source]▶
I don't know. I wish for them to succeed but as someone who's had a GOG account since before it officially launched, I have seen them claim to refocus on classics at least twice before, with meager effects. It's gotten bad enough that some games ostensibly under GOG's mission are actually better off on Steam and I don't think it's entirely on the publisher.

The examples chosen to hightlight the program on gog's own page for this initiative also do not fill with confidence. If you read between the lines it turns out that for instance it took them five years (!) to fix a crashing HoMM3 intro in a language they added, and likewise they only checked if Diablo/Hellfire even works on win 10/11 yesterday, years after they started selling it.

More power to them, if they keep at it, but I don't see anything to get excited over yet.

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indigoabstract ◴[14 Nov 24 11:04 UTC] No.42135047[source]▶
Hmm, this is kind of off-topic, but I'm unable to skip the intro on the HoMM3 I own on GOG. Not that I play HoMM3 often, but I'm still kind of pissed off because they won't fix that.
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1. Etherlord87 ◴[14 Nov 24 11:48 UTC] No.42135310[source]▶
I'm pretty sure the first time you play HoMM3 the intro can't be skipped. So question is, do you make a fresh install every time you play (as you play rarely), or does it fail to save that intro has already been played. Also using HD Launcher might help.
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2. indigoabstract ◴[15 Nov 24 12:41 UTC] No.42146367[source]▶
IIRC (this was a while ago), it saves a key into the Windows registry. But somehow, it overwrites it the next time I launch or quit the game, so I can skip the intro after I modify the key, but then it reverts.

I haven't had the patience to debug it and see exactly when it changes the value.

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4. indigoabstract ◴[22 Nov 24 16:31 UTC] No.42215177[source]▶
Update: They finally fixed it on the latest patch (13th of November).

Thank you GOG!