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According to the little research I made, there are no games from the Electronic Arts Catalogue available on GOG.com. Personally, I'm a huge fan of Westwood, which was baught by them long ago. We all know EA is a huge, greedy and evil corporation that floods their customers with aggressive DRM and destroys small companies like Westwood.
Nevertheless, I hope that one day we'll be able to enjoy great games from Westwood here on GOG.com. Still remember Kyrandia or Dune?
I'm eager to learn what you think. Do you believe it's possible to see Westwood Catalogue on GOG.com someday? Would you buy it?
I've got a thread for this kind of thing here. But, suffice to say that EA have been nominated more times than I care to count. :D
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Navagon: I've got a thread for this kind of thing here. But, suffice to say that EA have been nominated more times than I care to count. :D

So thats at LEAST 4 times
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Navagon: But, suffice to say that EA have been nominated more times than I care to count. :D

And the actual chance of an EA game appearing here is "when hell freezes over" (or when GOG will start releasing games with DRM and overpriced) :P
I've always wanted to play the Blade Runner game.
@ Navagon: I'm sorry for not posting on the thread you mentioned. However, my post is not that much about begging but rather about reality.
The question is - is it actually feasible? It's about contracts and business models of the developres/rightsholders. In this case, EA is known for their douchebaggery so the situation is rather grim. Hence my thread - I wonder if anybody has any information about this.
Post edited September 25, 2009 by OutOfTimer
I think we've had fifty threads about EA/GOG too.
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Navagon: I've got a thread for this kind of thing here. But, suffice to say that EA have been nominated more times than I care to count. :D
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Aliasalpha: So thats at LEAST 4 times

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klaymen: And the actual chance of an EA game appearing here is "when hell freezes over" (or when GOG will start releasing games with DRM and overpriced) :P

Well, to be fair, they're not the ones overpricing their games. Dead Space, Mirror's Edge and most of their 2008 releases are all very reasonably priced. Even on Steam they're dramatically less than similarly rated and aged games by other publishers. I can't complain about their prices at all. Especially when you compare them to Activision.
But then of course there's the DRM. That kills any pricing benefits dead.
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OutOfTimer: The question is - is it actually feasible? It's about contracts and business models of the developres/rightsholders. In this case, EA is known for they douchebaggery so the situation is rather grim. Hence my thread - I wonder if anybody has any information about this.

EA is infamous for sitting on a pile of disused old IP. They have recently made moves to revive some of those IP, including re-registering some old trademarks for Road Rash and Wing Commander, among others. They have also allowed another developer to pick an old IP and develop a new game from it.
But that doesn't answer the question of what EA intend to do with the old games they have in their back catalogue or what their attitude is towards selling those old games again. I don't think that anyone knows the answer to that question outside of EA itself.
Post edited September 25, 2009 by Navagon
EA is one of those companies I'm confident will come to GOG eventually. But what we shouldn't forget is that Westwood did a large amount of games for other publishers. So EA isn't the only company that owns the rights to Westwood-games.
Post edited September 25, 2009 by Zeewolf
But if you're like me and wanting a gog version of the awesome, never-bettered, original C&C (yes, it's free from EA, but it's still ISOs you have to burn, or use a FakeCD to mount them, and I wouldn't be averse to paying a few quid for a gog installer - especially if they can get it sorted properly unlike EA, who "sell" it as-it-was in 1996) then .... well, I ain't holding my breath for more than 30 seconds :dry:
Alright, C&C2 wasn't too bad, I suppose, but don't get me started on the 3rd "installment". Nevermind about Generals...
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Lone3wolf: [...]Alright, C&C2 wasn't too bad, I suppose, but don't get me started on the 3rd "installment". Nevermind about Generals...

...as much as i like C&C universe, and the Tiberium storyline fondly, i'd recommend you to check the ignomious C&C Generals as well. I'd point you to the C&C First Decade DVD pack that includes all C&C games up to Generals in 1 DVD and, thanks to laborious community, a proper patch for it that effectivelly acts as a no-cd as well :]
Now the reason i as pointing the bland Generals "series" is this: even though is a questionable C&C by the franchise's history, it happens to have this massive advantage that is a blossoming modding community... it is in fact one of the most modded C&C's i believe. Now this brings to the table many really good mods you can experience for the single cost of the actual base game, and this includes mods that re-enact those 'golden age' C&C games.
The C&C First Decade is an opportunity to play the real thing as well, and i admit that having many C&C games of my own, i bought it primarily for the original 1995 Command & Conquer wich i had experienced first hand on my long-gone Sega Saturn. Also, my first ever PC game was the original Red Alert, wich i bought even without the actual PC at home :D
The First Decade does not include Sole Survivor (an elusive game i never personaly played), but included the unfortunate Renegade, the obnoxious FPS game based on C&C universe (tiberium). This pack stirred plenty discussion in the community when it was first launched, but i'll say that in the end, it is an acceptable collection that has the advantage of allowing fast direct access to all these games once you install them on your PC (and don't forget the community patch for no-cd -- patch unoficially supported even by EA itself).
As for other Westwood games, my main interest would fall on the Dune universe of games, even though i pretty much only missed the original Dune, and don't find Emperor that enticing, keeping the source universe in mind.
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The thing I hated about the Dune games was moving your forces one unit at a time...20 units to launch an attack? oh sure...select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click;...
And if the base was 4 or 5 "screens" away on the map...your mouse button broke before you got there :-\
Yeap, I got the Decade pack, with bonus "making of" DVD; I've even installed the Nyerguds patches to get the older games working in Windows (As they were originally DOS games, before getting upgraded to Win95 status). I've also got originals of C&C; C&C2; Red Alert; and Red Alert 2. I actually liked Renegade, but like most FPS, I get nauseous playing it more than 20 minutes. Funnily enough, Duke 3D doesn't knock me sick.
I could never get into Generals : I think of it pretty much the same way I think of Warcraft 3 : "WHAT the HECK did they do to the game??!! THEY RUINED IT!!! WHYYYY???"
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Aliasalpha: So thats at LEAST 4 times
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Navagon: >:
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klaymen: And the actual chance of an EA game appearing here is "when hell freezes over" (or when GOG will start releasing games with DRM and overpriced) :P

Well, to be fair, they're not the ones overpricing their games. Dead Space, Mirror's Edge and most of their 2008 releases are all very reasonably priced. Even on Steam they're dramatically less than similarly rated and aged games by other publishers. I can't complain about their prices at all. Especially when you compare them to Activision.
But then of course there's the DRM. That kills any pricing benefits dead.
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OutOfTimer: The question is - is it actually feasible? It's about contracts and business models of the developres/rightsholders. In this case, EA is known for they douchebaggery so the situation is rather grim. Hence my thread - I wonder if anybody has any information about this.

EA is infamous for sitting on a pile of disused old IP. They have recently made moves to revive some of those IP, including re-registering some old trademarks for Road Rash and Wing Commander, among others. They have also allowed another developer to pick an old IP and develop a new game from it.
But that doesn't answer the question of what EA intend to do with the old games they have in their back catalogue or what their attitude is towards selling those old games again. I don't think that anyone knows the answer to that question outside of EA itself.

EA has been using less DRM lately (or at least, less invasive DRM), at least in their retail copies of Sims 3 (and the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins). So, there's still hope.
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michaelleung: I've always wanted to play the Blade Runner game.

Cool game. Worth checking out if you're a fan of the movie (and if you can find it, of course).
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Lone3wolf: The thing I hated about the Dune games was moving your forces one unit at a time...20 units to launch an attack? oh sure...select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click; select; click;...
And if the base was 4 or 5 "screens" away on the map...your mouse button broke before you got there :-\

Not really Dune "games", you're talking about Dune 2 specifically. Yes, that game would indeed benefit hugely from two of the later RTS interface staples, namely grouping and contextual right-click commands. Still, it was the first of its kind, the grandfather of base building RTS'es, and more than deserving of its unfortunately limited fame. It always pissed me off in later years, to hear someone talking about a new RTS as a "C&C clone", when C&C was actually a Dune 2 clone.