News Good Old Games goes to open beta

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10/24/good-old-games-goes-to-open-beta/1

Good Old Games, the digital download service for classic PC games has finally reached open beta stage and is ready for business.

 

Is this like steam in that you can download the game again (with out paying) if you nuke your machine?

 

Yep.

 

Cool, once I finish kotor i'll have something else to play.

 

some absolute classics here. Hostile waters, Giants and Freespace 2 are all in my all time top ten favourite games list - just a shame I already own them or I'd be signing up quick snap!

 

The site does have some good games but they need to work hard to expand there collection if they want to stay afloat long.

 

I hope to see some Lucas Arts classics (that no longer work properly with Win32/64) feature

 

MDK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

oh.. wow... Freespace 2... the best space-sim action game ever made in the history of the earth............. how could i miss that.

 

its a great concept, but i think they are gonna get stuck in catch22 - they need more games to bring in the customers, but they need more customers to convince companies to let them sell their games.
Still, i will probably buy a few of the games they have, just because i think its great to see companies actually trying to adapt a new business model thats more in keeping with available technology.

 

if only they had planescape torment, been trying to play through it but the crashes from magic spells are really annoying.

 

+500

 

And Fallout made the front page...

Agreed!

 

Planescape is second on the wishlist - so you never know...

 

Yeah. I was royally pissed when DirectX 7 broke Force Commander... and LucasArts never fixed it. They just literally buried that game.