GOG.com announced on Thursday that both of Playdead's grim but beloved titles, Limbo and Inside, will be leaving the DRM-free platform on July 17th. While there is no stated cause for the delistings some have speculated that the ongoing legal spat between Playdead co-founders Dino Patti and Arnt Jensen could be to blame. I personally
GOG and itch’s approach to preservation is always gonna be limited by legality, you can’t keep a game on your platform if the publisher requests its delisting; ofc piracy isn’t constrained by this, so it’s inherently better at preservation
at least, since the games on there don’t have DRM, once you have them you keep them (and with GOG, you can also download offline installers that you can reuse on any computer you want). they make piracy (and therefore preservation) way easier in that way, because pirates don’t even need to repack the game!
What is difference between any platform like itch or GOG if they will also delist games? Game preservation my ass, piracy is the true preservation.
EDIT: Relevant video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ejBTJeu74
GOG and itch’s approach to preservation is always gonna be limited by legality, you can’t keep a game on your platform if the publisher requests its delisting; ofc piracy isn’t constrained by this, so it’s inherently better at preservation
at least, since the games on there don’t have DRM, once you have them you keep them (and with GOG, you can also download offline installers that you can reuse on any computer you want). they make piracy (and therefore preservation) way easier in that way, because pirates don’t even need to repack the game!
Delisted just means it’s no longer for sale, not that you can’t download it or play it.