rubenwardy3d ago

New blog post: #OpenTTD and the Transport Tycoon rerelease

My thoughts about the TTD rerelease and OpenTTD requiring a purchase of TTD on Steam and GOG

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https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2026/03/17/openttd-ttd-release/

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OpenTTD and the Transport Tycoon re-release

My thoughts about the TTD rerelease and OpenTTD requiring a purchase of TTD on Steam and GOG.

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Show threadkby3d ago
@rubenwardy If the re-release wasn’t so lame, I would let it all slide. But they just, as you have said, “released” the original game as-is, only adding a DOSBOX wrapper. They even recycled the graphics from old ads. So for Infogrames it is really just free money from IP vulturing. From a product for which they’ve not spent an iota of effort for...
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@6b6279

May I copy this reply to the blog post as a comment?

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@rubenwardy But of course, also nice blog; subscribed to the RSS feed :D
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