- cross-posted to:
- gaming@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- gaming@lemmy.ml
Built a userscript that checks the publisher on Steam and GOG game pages against the Stop Killing Games Dead Game List. If the publisher has shut down always-online titles before, you get an amber banner with the reason.
Currently flags 16 publishers: Ubisoft, EA, Microsoft/Activision, Warner Bros, Bandai Namco, Sony, Square Enix, 2K, NCSoft, SEGA, Capcom, Rovio, Gameloft, NetEase, Nexon, Atari.
Open source, no tracking, dismissible banner.
By Developer @kimmitk@lemmy.world
Do any games on GoG exist that can be killed by a publisher?
Yeah? The majority of the IPs of games sold on GOG are still owned by someone that isn’t CDPR and they could cancel whatever agreement they had to sell their stuff on GOG. Seems highly unlikely tho, since almost none of them cost anyone anything to keep selling as they don’t do anything online or, if they do, is P2P stuff or dedicated servers the players themselves run. The games that get killed generally have some kind of always online component and the publishers simply don’t want to pay for the servers anymore, nor do they want to spend time retrofitting them to not need those servers to be played.
I have bought a game on gog, how can the publisher revoke that game from me now that I have it?
Not aware of any games on gog that are always online
They couldn’t take it away from you but they could tell GOG to stop selling and distributing it, which would mean you’d need to have it backed up already or you won’t be able to obtain the offline installer again from GOG.