Old Sierra games

[Hondo]

Does anyone know if valve still owns the rights to the old Sierra games like Police Quest and Space Quest etc.??

[Der Ungrund]

Valve never owned the rights, Activision owns the rights to most of the older Sierra titles.

If you mean, are these titles on steam, I think the only older Sierra games on steam are the King's Quest and Space Quest games. You'd have to go to GOG to get the other ones.

[The Soup Nazi]

Go where?

[Dasffion]

Steam has King's Quest and Space Quest but the Kings Quest collection doesn't have 8 and the Space Quest doesn't have 6. Steam doesn't have Quest for Glory or Police Quest. The Kings Quest and Space Quest aren't optimized for Windows.

That's one of the best reasons to buy older games like Kings/Space Quest from GoG.com is that they make sure it works on all operating systems before selling it. Wait for the next GoG.com sale, they almost always have a Sierra Bundle.

[Steven Brattac]

Hell i forgot this awesome games police quest howmany nights lol did i sit on that alone.

[Dan Guess]

Let's not forget Red Baron and Betrayals in Anatara. (sp?)
I think both are on GoG but it would be so much nicer if some of those classic titles could be brought over to steam.

[Dasffion]

Originally posted by Dan Guess:

Let's not forget Red Baron and Betrayals in Anatara. (sp?)
I think both are on GoG but it would be so much nicer if some of those classic titles could be brought over to steam.

I don't mind them not being here. As much as I love Steam, they suck for older games, they just put them up and don't really care if they work on all operating systems or not.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Dasffion:

I don't mind them not being here. As much as I love Steam, they suck for older games, they just put them up and don't really care if they work on all operating systems or not.

That would be the developers who don't care, not Valve/Steam.

Unlike Steam, gog.com gets right to modify the games they sell and keep them working on current systems. Since they don't have to worry about maintaining a DRM service, a client or many of the other features that Steam offers, they have the time to do so.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/10110/?snr=1_7_15__13
http://store.steampowered.com/app/10100/?snr=1_7_15__13

Those are the only two. Looks like Activision own the rights the them. You could try contacting Activision and asking them to put more on Steam.

[Dasffion]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by Dasffion:

I don't mind them not being here. As much as I love Steam, they suck for older games, they just put them up and don't really care if they work on all operating systems or not.

That would be the developers who don't care, not Valve/Steam.

Unlike Steam, gog.com gets right to modify the games they sell and keep them working on current systems. Since they don't have to worry about maintaining a DRM service, a client or many of the other features that Steam offers, they have the time to do so.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/10110/?snr=1_7_15__13
http://store.steampowered.com/app/10100/?snr=1_7_15__13

Those are the only two. Looks like Activision own the rights the them. You could try contacting Activision and asking them to put more on Steam.

lol, I'm impressed that you can make assuring that games work properly a bad thing.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Dasffion:

lol, I'm impressed that you can make assuring that games work properly a bad thing.

I'm impressed you can take something so far out of context.

I never said it was a bad thing, just that it isn't on Steam to do it in this case. They don't have the rights to modify a game and have a lot of other things on their plate to work on.

It is on the developers to fix thier game. Having an issue with a game? You would need to contact the developers too.

[Dasffion]

The developers are out of business, Activision may own the rights but they're likely not going to do anything with 20 year old games.

Do you have a link to something that says that GoG has the rights to modify the games but Steam doesn't? And "They don't have time" is a pretty crappy excuse, if they're going to sell something they should make sure it works properly. Putting a warning that it might not work is just lazy.

[Hondo]

I bought the Sierra pack on GOG not to long ago along with some other great old memories.

[sil3nC]

hi there.
an up just because steam is now proposing harvester (which is not a sierra game yes ... but running under dosbox like most of them) and i'll be really pleased to be able to play again some of old sierra titles like shivers, phantasmagoria or gabriel knight without going to GoG (which do not propose all of them, shivers mainly).
So, just to say that if proposed at a similar price (than harvester 6$), it will be a great offer to players.

[Kargor]

I don't think GOG modifies anything; they would need the source code to do that, I do not believe that it is common industry practice to hand source code to stores. Or for stores to hack in compiled machine code to fix problems.

From what I can tell, GOG merely "focuses" on getting a working DOS-emulator setup for the platforms they support. Steam just slaps a DOS-emulator for Windows on it, and probably cares a lot less about the details since DOS-games are not actually what they want to focus on.

Now, it could be that the DOS-games on Steam are actually packaged by the publisher, of course.