CD Projekt-owned GOG has launched the GOG Preservation Program to make sure the longevity of over 100 video games reminiscent of Fallout: New Vegas, The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings, Resident Evil, and extra.
The GOG Preservation Program is a dedication from GOG to take care of video games’ compatibility with trendy and future programs in an more and more digital world.
“The GOG Preservation Program is our dedication to preserving gaming historical past,” GOG mentioned. “Through this system, gamers can belief that their video games will at all times be updated and able to run on present and future PC setups.
“Whether it’s manuals, DLCs, or lacking options, we’re providing essentially the most full model potential, backed by GOG’s tech assist and offline installers, so you possibly can safeguard these classics for years to return.”
A complete of 108 video games are at the moment included within the GOG Preservation Program in a listing additionally containing Dragon Age Origins, System Shock 2, The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, Legacy of Kain: Defiance, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, and Mad Max. GOG will add extra video games to the checklist over time.
“In a world of speedy technological change, we see the pressing want to avoid wasting video video games from
vanishing,” it added. “The GOG Preservation Program is dedicated to protecting beloved classics alive and
playable for future generations.
“Our objective is for all video games, whether or not latest or traditional, to ultimately develop into a part of the Preservation Program. For a sport to qualify for the Program, our crew should run it via many high quality checks. If these checks fail, our crew updates and improves the sport till it matches our high quality requirements. Only then, we stamp the sport with our Preservation Program and grant it Good Old Game standing.
“There is an extended backlog of traditional video games accessible on GOG which will already qualify for this system, however our crew has not been in a position to verify that but. We goal to assist as many video games as potential, nevertheless it’s not at all times solely as much as us.”
This is a rising concern for online game followers worldwide who fear about video games new and outdated shedding performance as time goes on. A chief instance is available in The Crew, which Ubisoft faraway from sale and took offline in March. This means The Crew, which was launched in 2014, can now not be performed in any capability, now or sooner or later. It now not exists.
The Crew was an online-only sport and due to this fact a part of a class maybe extra vulnerable to delisting, however even single-player video games are more and more turning into in danger. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, for instance, is a purely single-player sport that launched solely partly on-disc. It in any other case required a obtain for the whole sport, and due to this fact its bodily model can’t exist with out an web connection.
GOG mentioned it needs lots of of video games to enter the GOG Preservation Program by the tip of 2025, and that it at the moment has an extended backlog of video games at the moment being evaluated. Each sport should move via many high quality checks earlier than it’s deemed of a excessive sufficient commonplace to enter the GOG Preservation Program. Games which fail will likely be improved upon till it matches GOG’s requirements.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
