That sucks! Those are two amazing games. Sorry to hear that the co-founders are feuding…
How good are these games? Are they worth buying before the delisting just to have them?
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I haven’t played inside, but limbo is absolutely fantastic.
Inside was better than Limbo for me, if that helps. Limbo was cool, but Inside had crazy atmospheric storytelling.
Limbo is the archetypal “scared little guy in big scary world dark artsy platform-puzzle indy game”. Personally I found it overrated. Nice enough art style, but nothing of substance - extremely basic gameplay, no plot. Just a series of scary monsters killing you until you trial-and-error your way to the next section.
I played both, loved them but I understand it’s not for everyone, given the creepy/dark atmosphere.
Limbo is a great game, Inside is a fucking masterpiece.
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.
GoG is very much about the marketing of game preservation. That said, to my knowledge, they (like Steam) don’t remove it from your account. Just from the store. So if you bought it, you can still play it.
GoG is a bit better in that their DRM model only requires you to authenticate to download, not reinstall. So you can theoretically archive all of your purchases if you have way more storage than you should. But it also is horrible at surfacing when an installer has an update so… mostly this is only viable for truly dead games.
I like GoG a lot as a platform but it has always rubbed me wrong that they pretend they are focused on game preservation. But that also might be because I am old enough to remember The French Monk incident.
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!
It’s DRM free. Just practice good backups man. No need to jump to piracy.
Not having DRM is better for piracy. So in a way they’re helping “true preservation” more than other platforms that allow DRM.
