Descent 1,2,3 are 50% off at Steam.

Descent: FreeSpace is also discounted, but FreeSpace 2 is not.
 
Thanks OP, will probably pick them up.

chrnochime said:
It started on March 10th. So 20 days later they are around 55% toward their goal. Not looking good.

Interesting article.

http://www.makinggames.biz/features/video-games-on-kickstarter-past-present-and-future,7478.html

Don't know how doublefine got 3mil for their adv game. Hmm...
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I'd wager it's because there weren't enough old school adventure games out at the time and its audience wanted them? I know it's hard to understand why something that isn't a FPS, RTS, or RPG would be desirable... ;)
 
I'm sure I'm saying what a lot of people are thinking, but if a major company puts a kickstarter though, there are pretty good chances that the flow of money was artificially stimulated by the company for the free publicity that kickstarter generates (popularity, even fake, begets popularity). I really hope Erik's Descent Underground kickstarter makes it, but things are not looking good.
 
Technically, the Descent series is free, the source code is freely available to download, the name and franchise are not. These are basically games that are wrapped for you so they work on modern PC (DOS Boxed) and have working multiplayer. You can get the also through GOG without any DRM.
 
What your getting from Descent on Steam is compatability on modern operating systems in a turn key solution at 3.50. So take how much you make per min at a job and divide that into 3.50 and then ask is it worth your time to make a 21 year old game work vs steam.
 
Though in reality, if you want to actually play it, instead of just see "how it used to be" then you'll want to run Descent through one of the modern engines (like dxx-rebirth or D2-XL) and not Steam's Dosbox.
 
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