If you still have games that are only available on physical media or isos, you should ask gog or the publisher for a digital edition.
Cdrom and DVD are deteriorating and falling apart over time.

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I also agree that we need to preserve the Multiplayer servers.
What if an MMORPG like Everquest,World of Warcraft or Guildwars is no longer profitable and servers go down?
What if a franchise is no longer interesting for the owner like Robin Hood the Legend of Sherwood?
What if the hardware is no longer sold like a Super Nintendo or Megadrive?
It wouldnt hurt the owner of the material to release sourcecode, schematics, assets ,server side binaries, level editors, tools , source of the tools and so on to make it possible to archive it for the future.

Books, Films , art, is preserved in museums and special archives too.

Even Companies like GoG or Blizzard themselfes have to reverse engineer games because only binaries are left and the rest long lost.

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So we have seen the mission statement, the marketing slides.
Now we wait and see if they do more than just a mix of Lutris, Heroic and Linux with a bit of duct tape.
I'd love to see more platforms in OpenSource being supported , MS Gamepass,Rockstar, countless others where the OpenSource community hasn't solved the puzzle yet.
Just getting money out of community projects is lame.

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https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/pull/3480 [External Link] is still marked as work in progress.

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A proper Remake for C&C Generals would be great.

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Is the Battle.net Crash fixed?

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Quoting: kftXMay I ask why IndieGala and not Humble? I honestly didn't even realise IndieGala still existed haha

It is a community project and every developer works on what he prefers. Maybe it is easier, maybe there is no community member that has games there?
I personally only got steam keys from humble in the past, so it might just not be worth the time :)

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Quoting: fenglengshunNice. Heroic remains the GOAT for me. Hope yo see more store supports again at some point.

Yeah! IndieGala, EA and Itch.io are being cooked right now, soon we will have more news about them.

The list of remaining targets is shrinking^^ Can only think about MS Gamepass, Battle.net and Ubi being major platforms to do.
Huge thanks to the team for tackling all the hard , probably unpaid , work.

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Quoting: constReplicating a proprietary and potentially encrypted communication protocol that could change any time is a horrible task. Imagine you spend weeks on it, it works, news gets out and they simply roll out some minor changes that break everything, again and again. They want us to use their launchers because they profit from them.

Could happen but i don't think so. After the horrible messes ive seen in applications and games quality isn't the first priority. As long as the code works, it's fine. I don't think it is worth the effort to keep changing both games & launcher just to mess with third party launchers.
Also, the income is based on games sold and who cares about the launcher?

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Quoting: CalinouEA app isn't DRM-free (just like Ubisoft Connect). This means Heroic developers would have to bypass it somehow, which is unlikely to happen for many reasons.

What does DRM mean other than the game, launcher and Webservers talk with one another to see if you own the game and are allowed to start it?
It does not have to be bypassed, as that would be piracy, it has to be replicated like login and downloading.
Never do anything the original wouldn't do or you are getting into trouble with their owners, like ea in this case.

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