When I think of BoE I think of Homeworld mods, for instance. You could argue that those fangames enables desire of entirely different games though. So in a way, there are more ways (either get the BoE or mod FS2 that includes BoE with modded ships) that achieve the similar, or even better, outcome. On the other hand GOG doesn't care that much about modding just like they don't care a lot about freeware games. You could say that there are mods for certain games out there that achieve the same (such as the Star Wars Freespace 2 mod, which is superior to the examples you've given). Same cannot be said on BoY and BoE, which are basically fangames. It really depends on costumer-desireability, which is often difficult to evaluage. Its kinda like those Xcom remakes, some people who play those want to play/buy the originals as well, or maybe its the other way around. So putting them on the store is essentially subsidizing the original game, making sure more desire is building up for the original in the process. The internet is full of quite good freeware games that GOG "could" host, but why? Perhaps this serves as an explaination.īecause the afformented/described games are based on established and desired classics (openTTD is based on TTD, which is based on TT). Rolling Madness 3D (a great remake of the Marble Madness arcade game) or the Wizball remake or those great fan-made Star Wars games ("Battle of Yavin" and "Battle of Endor"), but I personally don't see why GOG should host them. There certainly are many good free games like e.g. I can just download if from the original web page, right? I personally don't consider it important that free (open source) games that I can easily obtain online, should be also on GOG.com (or Steam). Timppu: Yeah like the others said, what's in it for GOG? Ok so Steam still carries it, no idea what Valve thinks they can achieve it but I guess they have automated it for the most part how new (even free) games get accepted to the system.
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