Meanwhile, as helpfully supplied further up in the thread, the EULA really is an agreement with only one party, which is you. So be adviced to stay the fuck away from publishers and developers who do this, or are liable to accept deals like this.
But be aware of that they could do that, without actually breaking any laws.Īnd they can also simply suppress and ignore your complaints completely and utterly, and then punish the developer if the publisher overtures for a "relaunch" don't work. Take 2 doesn't exactly have the reputation of being insane, so the probability that they will suddenly force everyone on the same version, in order to have a consolidated stock version that everyone plays, to insert certain types of content, or allow a more organised mod-facility, to have a uniform presentation aspect between their shitty console version and the pc version, and perhaps adding microtransactions, or whatever - or like Sony did with NMS, to force everyone on their internal ADHD testers control schemas, simplified controls with twitch and total grinding mayhem - that's not very high. And the publisher now requires that all previous instances of the game will be removed out of copyright and drm concerns. But it is an example that shows you just how problematic the "modern always online/needful patching sprees" schema is when a game that - say, surprisingly goes from indie-status to being purchased by a publisher - is suddenly repackaged in a format that makes modding impossible, etc. Of course, that game was already patched into shit at launch, thanks to Sony's internal testers, so it wouldn't change much if we had access to the previous versions. To which Gog.com helpfully obliged, and purged the previous versions completely. As was the case with for example No Man's Sky, when the princesses at Sony decided to remove all evidence of the actual working version of the game. Unfortunately - and this is unfortunate - gog doesn't reserve the right to maintain previous patches/versions if the dev decides to delete them. Thanks to gog also not being total assholes, like Valve, it's also possible to revert to previous patch-versions with a simple diff, if technically possible, so that you don't need to invalidate and wreck your entire install - just because someone installed an automatic update that happened to break all your mods, and so on. But no, they have a completely competent upstream feed that either the dev can push directly, or that gog can put in various private or testing upstreams. Maybe they're still not used to publish new games that need regular patching :-D "Need" is a little bit strong, probably. MikeWerner: Their roots are ancient games, so
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