[STEAM] Blizzard’s pulling of Warcraft I & II tests GOG’s new Preservation Program

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When an updated, remastered, or otherwise spiffed-up version of a game is released, nobody—not long-time fans, not archivists, not anybody, really—ever asks for the original version of that game to be taken down. Does this seem to stop game studios from committing this unforced public relations error? Absolutely not.

Blizzard, a company that has recently released

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for $10 and $15, respectively (or in a bundle with III for $40) on its

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storefront, has asked GOG to remove its non-remastered, DRM-free

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from its store on December 13.

GOG (aka Good Old Games), which recently included Warcraft I and II

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, with a "Make Games Live Forever" tagline, suddenly finds itself with a new policy to figure out. So GOG is putting the Warcraft I & II Bundle on ***** (discount code "MakeWarcraftLiveForever" for $2 off) and is

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that if they buy it before December 13, they will keep access to it after the delisting, complete with offline installers.

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