GOG Rallies Community Support To Save Gaming’s Lost Classics From Obsolescence

GOG (formerly known as Good Old Games) has been fighting an uphill battle for some time, despite being generally well-received, in a battle to stay relevant amid Steam's unapologetic market dominance. Despite gamers' widespread hatred of DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection software, Steam's relatively lax DRM has long been allowed to skirt on by, unlike GOG's true-blue anti-DRM policy. GOG's mission of game preservation also sees the company go to farther extents than Steam will to secure modernized versions of retro titles. An example in recent memory was the releases of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. It's particularly interesting since Capcom itself showed no interest in preserving the original releases of those games, instead thinking that gamers would only care for the Remake titles and their overhauled, modernized AAA graphics, despite the Resident Evil 3 Remake missing a substantial amount of content ...