After killing The Silver Living and apparently getting into a quarrel with the top heads of Inifnity Ward, the peons who fetch the money from Activision's infinite golden COD mine, I've received another GoG notification about how this is Activision's Month (guess it's February AND March) and that Phantasmagoria 2 and Return to Krondor are now / will be available for cheap bucks and DRM free.
It's ironic really, the GoG partnership seemed like a will of good faith. Sure the King's and Space quests were already on Steam, and while Steam is what I call "friendly DRM", the GoG releases feature none of that. After the drama though, it just looks like a move to grab some bucks.
Steam wouldn't be an appropriate channel for Return to Krondor of Phantasmagoria, I think. It has some classic games, but GoG is the place to get the really old and perhaps not so universally acclaimed games. So this is just Activision wanting some bucks for old IP. Of course, naturally, companies exist to make MONEY! So it's all fair and good. But they're sending a mixed message.
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I must have missed something, but it seems that Activision has been acting like any other big business. They're trying to sell old products at reduced prices in an ongoing sale, and if the drama you refer to is the IW situation, that too seems pretty standard. You send in security when you fire someone and often sue them if you suspect that they have breached a confidentiality or intellectual property agreement. It happens all the time in business.
And yet at the same time they crush a fanmade King's Quest game 7 or 8 years in the making. That's the mixed message. They give something and they take something back.
Look for instance at EA. Everybody was badmouthing them and then they drop two, three new IPs on the major consoles and look like they've changed their heart, supporting web-based games like that Dragon Age "prequel". It improved their image. Activision's just tarnishing theirs.