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Does that mean that those of us who don't buy it on Steam will have a completely DRM-free experience? Basically, it has to have Steam running, and logged in no matter what to work. If you buy it from another marketplace that has its own DRM client like Uplay, you'll have to have a logged in Steam account running inside of it as well. I'm assuming the disc version will be one that just has the files on it, but still demand that you need a Steam account to play it like what New Vegas did. I wish there was someone in the video game industry for a company that has any power to even be in the conversation about DRM decisions actually lived in an area that doesn't have reliable, affordable high speed. As it stands, they have no fudging grasp of the sham that is Steam's buggy simulated online mode.

At least if they want to make a real DK sequel, the framework is right there saving them a bunch of time. Get rid of everything hindering it because of those F2P elements & mechanics, and BOOM! Game.

I would imagine that either Firaxis and/or 2K have the rights to anything with the Civ name on it, which is why it's not on GOG, but Colonization is. I think EA still has Gettysburg/Antietam though, so perhaps someday. There's still lots of old EA games I would like to see there. I would imagine that Civ4 probably got updated with the new Steam CEG at about the same time that Civ3 did on Steam, so you can't just boot it straight up from (if it was anything like what Civ3 was) the tricky to find batch file that was put into a sub directory. I could be wrong, and I'd be all over it if I was.

I'll say this: If a company isn't willing to sell their games, then they should go into the public domain after a fair period of time (or at least have some fair use clause that says someone else can't profit off of them.) In George's case; 3dRealms still sells their old games that they still have the rights to, or has many of them available as freeware. The ones that they are still selling shouldn't be made available to public domain (or have to go to a fair use clause.) In Cliff's case; He (or Epic Games) aren't making any money off of several of their old games like Jill of the Jungle, Extreme Pinball, Xargon, Jazz Jackrabbit, Dare to Dream, ect because they aren't choosing to sell them anywhere. If they continue to choose not to sell them, then I fail to see why they shouldn't go into say a fair use clause. Of course, they already sell Unreal on GOG. It's beyond me why they just don't throw the rest of their old catalog up there as well. Dare to Dream might be a bit tricky, considering it's 16-bit Windows.

Meanwhile, that reminds me of my least favorite FMV ending of all time: All that work, for that? I have had no desire to touch anything that has to do with Diablo since that. I'll play and have fun with similar games like Torchlight and Dungeon Siege, but I won't touch Diablo.

I already have Civ3, which I can't play anymore whenever I want to because they updated the old DRM with new CEG. I can't see why I would want to pay 1 cent more for other Civ games that Steam wont let me play. On the other hand, if they had a DRM-free copy of even just Civ3 if you beat the average, I'd be all over that. All Valve has to do is get a real offline mode instead of a buggy simulated online mode, and I'll shut up about it.

BOO! HISS! Steam's buggy offline mode sucks! I actually want to play my game whenever I want. Not just during the short window in which Steam can remember I'm me. How difficult would it be to remove that Steam CEG crap, and replace it with Uplay's DRM for the Uplay version. At least then that would also mean that people who buy it through Uplay don't need 2 bloody DRM clients open to play it. Again, one of those probably won't let you play it again after a bit when it's buggy offline mode forgets who you are within a month, meanwhile the other one never forgets but couldn't do anything about it anyways. They should rename their offline mode to Simulated Online Mode. But then some people then might not like knowing that Steam is always-online DRM (just can sometimes be simulated online.) I'm not a huge fan of Origin or Uplay; they are not as convenient as DRM-free installers. However, they at least have real offline modes so I can play my games whenever I want. But hey, the one or so people Valve has working on fixing this some of the time can only do so much. I thought Ubi buying the rights to publish the game was a great thing solely because I thought it would have meant replacing Steam CEG with Uplay.

That Freeman's Mind thing was fantastic.

What is this? That amazing bit of writing was by @boringgeoffk

Why didn't they do that for "Candy" and "Saga" instead? Those ones would have actually made sense.

As I've said here a few times; Dark Sun is my favorite setting and I would love another one of those games done in the style of Shattered Lands/Wake of the Ravager. Planescape too (but at least in that regards, we have the next Torment game.)

According to Steam, there will be an interface and subtitles in 8 languages including: English French Italian German Spanish Polish Portugese-Brazil (to answer your question) & Russian It looks like there will only be full audio in English. http://store.steampowered.com/app/213670/?snr=1_7_15__13

I would assume that the bigger companies don't think it will be worth it anymore, considering the short period of time that they would get to sell their multi-million dollar game for before the contract would run out and revert back to Hasboro. I could be wrong.

Change is a fundamental aspect of technology, nobody's running NT servers from 1998 anymore for a reason. i.e. The reason why most of your Windows 3.1 programs won't run on anything newer than XP (if even that,) is because the fundamental kernel-level programming has changed substantially to keep pace with advances in hardware as well as improvements in coding. Just like with viruses and other malware, IT security is constantly responding and adapting new defenses, the whole computing sector has always been constantly evolving. Years back, my friends and I made a Diplomacy clone game for WIndows 3.1, complete with LAN support. It would not run at all in Windows 95.

What I hate the most, is that they have combined the active projects with the completed ones. I infinitely preferred the old way of Staff Picks/Active/Most Successful in seperate groups.

For the longest time, the couple of PGA Tour games I had for the Genesis were the only ones I wanted to touch. I don't think I warmed up to the Tiger Woods ones until the PS2.

that's where my kids are. I have one 5 and one 2, 2 yr olds obsession is Mickey though. Luckily we can access US netflix so his only Mickey fix isn't Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I've found some of the older stuff on DVD at Christmas for them. They really liked the Donald/Huey, Louie & Dewey stuff; but not Duck Tales all that much. Perhaps later.

My kids are still young enough that they're still in their Disney Junior/Treehouse phase, although my daughter has got to be close to leaving that. My 2yr old is downright obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine.

Over 6 hours total! With that being said, I just knew I'd miss Gothic 1. I have the rest of the games that they've had up so far in some form, except for some of the Might & Magics and Crusader. I wonder if Psychonauts will be the 2005 game. Oh, and for 2004, I'll bet they'll use it to debut their launch for Vampire TM - Bloodlines. Or Far Cry or Hitman 3.

That COPS show of his that was on A&E was hilarious.

I had a hard time getting that game to work good the last time I tried to play it. I would buy it again if they did all the work for me.

I like how the game that represented 1989, was SimCity 2000. In other news, the game representing 1995 will be Madden '09.

Hopefully this insomnia sale works better. At least we can speed up the time remaining. And there is a time remaining.

To Europe: Remember the plague? Love Canada.