Unfortunately, Duke Nukem games are at highest risk. I hope that nightmare won't happen, but Gearbox is Gearbox. So I don't expect a miracle.

Exactly. Unless the character has a major presence in a game (such as being a playable character or something), this is probably not the sort of thing some other random game could be pulled from sale over.

Aw man

I got a strange wishlist promo from GOG including these two yesterday. I was curious if it was an accidental early send out for an upcoming "going away sale".

Yep, otherwise Shadow Warrior could've been at risk over something as silly as the Lara Croft secret.

I think technically you could say *any* game on GOG has a risk of removal if the publisher doesn't renew their contract with GOG. (Honestly, I've been pleasantly surprised some of the bigger publishers here haven't pulled their games.)

But what Grargar said should probably be the focus. ;)

Agree. Appearances, references, easter eggs and other similar stuff are typical in games. For example, Doomguy's corpse appeared in Duke Nukem 3D. Also, there are many other references in BLOOD not just Duke Nukem (character).

Then it's good that I got GRID before the removal!!

Thank you for GOGmix. :)

Argh ! I hope The Void won't be removed as quickly as Severance or the Descent games, it is still on my wishlist !
But I'm agree that all GOG games have a risk of removal for legal issues.
The most important is to know it before the removal, not just after...

At some point re-newing a license just is far too expensive in contrast to the profits. There's no sense in putting millions in license fees if you won't make even a fraction of that back.

They'd better not remove Blood >:[= =}

Wouldnt this basically cover anything with cars and also games with charachters from various written media etc?.

And it should also be noted that in many cases renewing the license for company A to keep the old games on sale would mean that company B can't do new games using the same franchise to base it on.

I think this has been the reason why there have been so many Star Trek games appearing and then quietly disappearing throughout the years, as the license has been going from one company to another.

Of course, having newer games made doesn't mean that they are any better than older games. At least in Star Trek's case, 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites and A Final Unity are still the best ones made.

Having said that, if some company would get a license to do new TOS games, 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites might be removed from GOG.

good thing I don't like (hate!) racing/sports videogames.
still, it's bad for those that like'em ... so I suppose buy them as soon as sales/finances permit.

That depends entirely on whether the licensee has exclusive rights to work on the licensed property. For instance, while EA has a 10-year exclusive license to create new Star Wars games, Disney still have the rights to release the older Star Wars games. Another example is Games Workshop who have granted a license to everyone and their dog for Warhammer/Warhammer 40000 and the new Warhammer releases (Deathwatch, Regicide, Vermintide) haven't prevented GOG from rereleasing Chaos Gate, Rites of War and Shadow of the Horned Rat.