The vast majority of GoG's old games do work on modern platforms. They also make the effort to offer products compatible to current operating systems. If some games do not work, that is not the norm. Where old games not working on Steam is the norm. Apples to oranges.
Fallout 3 works on Steam the same way many games "work" on GOG though. Again, factually, many of GOG games require tinkering and community fixes to not have major issues.
Believe me, I am not arguing that there is an extreme complexity in offering old content when operating systems are ever changing. I am a reasonable person. My point is simply that I am not a fan of offering content if it is useless to the consumer. This would go for any company. My point is also that if a company does not have accesss to a working version, do not offer it at all. It comes off as disingenuous to me.
Well, like I said, comparing Steam to GoG when it comes to old games is apples to oranges. I mean, show me even 4 or 5 old games that work out of the box on Steam. The fact that we can't just rattle some games off quickly is telling. Where you, for the most part, can be confident in the majority of GoG's old games to work.
And where do you get the numbers of old working games or not working games? I would love to know them.
I can second this with KKND 1 and 2 both were broken back then , official patches have been made by the devellopers back then and GOG couldn't be arsed to have the patched exectuables up on their platform.
OK, I'll bite. Off the top of my head, and all natively (so no DOSBox):
i mean i played a bunch of old star wars games this year and they worked fine
Fucking lol. DId it just not occur to you that there might be people who actually play old games sometimes who could call this absurd bluff?
I have generally stopped buying games from GOG for a number of reasons, but the state in which they deliver old games, and how they support them is awful.
It's not a question of not wanting to upgrade but of bein able to make legacy games run all over again. And yes some titles availble on Steam are Win XP only compatible , and plain just don't work at all on modern day versions of Windows .
They were already agressive about it in certain companies with some older versions of their OS.
There's a legitimate argument against that... Vulnerable PCs, botnets, etc.
Pretty low, as I THINK that they're on their annual Hawaii company travel.
Wow, and here was me thinking Windows 10 periodically uninstalling my 360 controller driver was bad. :\
Holy shit that was a fucking hassle. Fuck Windows 10. Thanks for the tip.
You don't need to touch Group Policy unless you actually mean to entirely stop automatic updates, as Pro lets you defer security updates up to 30 days and feature updates for 365 days right in the settings app. You can also switch to the business branch for updates which will add another ~3 months to that.
