[Enigmatic Entity]

You know what some people are like - they'd find a way, somehow, despite the bounds of your denial...as stated by "i dont use punctuation lol" guy It'd be good for the whole SCP/HLP community if they could do that without a highish risk. Are they allowed to say, link to HLP SCP page as "free community content", or same issue?

[The E]

As far as I understand it, they would do that if HLP was an "official affiliate" of GoG. As it is, the fact that they have a nice editorial where they talk about us, the fact that said editorial is linked to on the FS2 page, and the fact that their FS forum is full with links to HLP should be enough.

Now, the obvious next question would be, "Why aren't we an affiliate?"

Okay, I do not know the full story here, so a truckload of salt should be taken, but IIRC, the affiliate agreements HLP would have to sign were unpalatable. Someone even mumbled about a "All your code are belong to us" clause in there.

[ShivanSpS]

Forget GoG, its nothing like Steam...

I already own a copy of Freespace 2 in a Box, that i brought back in 1999... ill more than happily buy FS2 again if it were on steam...

Just imagine FS2 on steam, with FSO as a free community expancion pack, with steam archivements for medals and some other crazy stuff that it could be added... it will requiere a lot of work(mostly on pilot stats sid, and the whole game needs to be intregrated with steam), but it will be impressive.

I dont see why not, even if the full game were free, they will be happy to have a new free game, its a good way to catch customers, personally i first installed steam to play a free game called "Alien Swarm" with some friends, now i own another 5 games on steam...

[Iss Mneur]

ShivanSpS the issue with that, and really, I think the ultimate reason that HLP is not a gog.com partner (the real reason(s) I am not privy to either) has to do with this:

Code: (FreeSpace 2 Source Code License) [Select]

/*
 * Copyright (C) Volition, Inc. 1999.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All source code herein is the property of Volition, Inc. You may not sell
 * or otherwise commercially exploit the source or things you created based on the
 * source.
 *
*/


[karajorma]

According to that, the source code (including everything the SCP have done with it) belongs to . AFAIK that means they can sell it and commercially exploit it all they like.

I have no idea what kind of royalties make from FS2 but even if they don't make a penny they might still want to FSO bundled with the GoG download just for the extra publicity it would get them.

[Charismatic]

So WE should partner with

[Iss Mneur]

So WE should partner with

The only problem is that Interplay still owns the distribution rights for the Freespace brand.

[rscaper1070]

G4 should include Freespace and FSO in their "Games for Cheap Bastards" segment. I'm amazed that they haven't already. They don't even have the box art for Freespace's listing on their site. I think I have an angry email to send.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

So WE should partner with

Members of used to post on this forum in the past. If an affiliation with them was that easy, they would have brought it up back then.