GOG does this too they will sell you cracked games and the money goes to whoever currently owns the IP, there is almost no point giving money to GOG at that point since they don’t do anything and the IP holder didn’t do anything either. Actually GOG might steal mods and claim they made them like with system shock.
Just a point against the second thread you linked, Gog selling cracked games, according to the thread you linked, allows them to be run without a disc on modern hardware
The crack also means it’s not altering the source code, according to the user’s in that thread
As for the first thread, yeah that’s pretty shitty.
Well with system shock 2 they just downloaded mods and fixes and added it to the game and then claimed they worked on them. Given that one would think that’s basically all they do.
GOG does this too they will sell you cracked games and the money goes to whoever currently owns the IP, there is almost no point giving money to GOG at that point since they don’t do anything and the IP holder didn’t do anything either. Actually GOG might steal mods and claim they made them like with system shock.
Source on this?
https://forum.quartertothree.com/t/why-well-never-get-a-nolf-revamp/76491/6
It was system shock 2 and not one but still the same thing.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/gogcom_stills_sell_cracked_version_of_games/page1
Just a point against the second thread you linked, Gog selling cracked games, according to the thread you linked, allows them to be run without a disc on modern hardware
The crack also means it’s not altering the source code, according to the user’s in that thread
As for the first thread, yeah that’s pretty shitty.
How else would copy protection get removed if the original source code was lost?
If mods are licensed in a way redistribution is allowed, it’s not stealing either.
I don’t get your outrage.
This is outrage because I posted about another company doing the same thing as the in post?
Don’t GOG actually patch the old games and add fixes to make it work on modern systems?
Well with system shock 2 they just downloaded mods and fixes and added it to the game and then claimed they worked on them. Given that one would think that’s basically all they do.