Yeah, the Blizzard a lot of us grew up with is truly dead and gone.

Its important for them to preserve any chance of profit that may be squeezed from old games.

There's a very crucial fact you're forgetting about corporations who say they care about anything. They're liars and only care about money.

"No, not like that!"

On the other hand... this feels like I would be calling it out as manipulative FOMO bullshit were it any other company.

While I hesitate to type this as it might be perceived as viewing a corporation as a friend, the intent matters, and GOG has a different history than the majority of FOMO abusing game companies. Did they identify that this is probably an opportunity to push some sales? Sure, probably. But I am chill permitting them that right when they're visibly working to remove FOMO as a commercial strategy.

A "DRM-Free" game is only as preserved as the hard drive space you dedicate to it.

You mean, just like any pre digital purchasing game that you own on disks? Or similar to any physical object you ever bought (hard drive space / shelf space), for that matter?

Nah, that's a bs argument. They're preserving it as much as they're able to without being a government funded museum.

Yeah normally I would feel the same way about this FOMO style of marketing but normally in that case it's the company selling it deciding to like remove it from sale to create the FOMO need. In the case it's another company basically forcing this decision on them so I don't think it's bad to let people buy it for cheaper while they still can.

If GoG goes down tomorrow

Or if Blizzard sues them to get the games removed.

That's one thing I really hate and why video game preservation is so important. We need to keep games alive forever so future generations can enjoy the classics and all the masterpieces out there.

It only really makes sense when the remaster is trash (like GTA I guess). Otherwise, all I can see it doing is increasing sales of both the original and the remaster...

They actually updated the remaster a few weeks ago and it is a huge difference.

Now the only glaring issue is the music, since the originals came out before game studios knew to secure licensed music rights in a way that would allow future re-releases in different formats.

I can understand hating WOW. I can even understand not getting into WC3. But how do you enjoy WC1, but lose interest at WC2???

That's like saying "A hamburger is good, but I just can't into bacon double cheeseburgers."

get a job as their janitor under a false identity. shit inside their offices.

Thankfully it seems that PC gaming wiki still has working links to the patches.