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GoG stands on DRM-free gaming!
It also stands on the idea of preserving classics!

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Everyone asks for the return of Severance: Blade of Darkness
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/severance_blade_of_darkness

I don't know how much say GOG has, but any game that involves being able to use your opponents own head as a weapon needs to be here. :D

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This is untrue. Gog is a storefront for commercial purposes, therefore its purpose is to make money, nothing else. It has in the past been focused on bringing classics out as that was its selling point along with being drm free, this is no longer the focus, although they may still release some older titles, they focus more on what will make them the most money.

Captain obvious to the rescue. GoG is from CdProjekt, which is a rather large company. And companies always have the purpose to go for the biggest profit and make money. That is something which even occured in the beginning.
It's not some charity thing or so.
But gogwitcher300 is right here and gog was made with the idea to preserve classics. Hence the name Good Old Games. However, there is not much left of that idea anymore, as gog is now more or less the same as steam and also release newer stuff and comes with a client. They portrait themself still as the place where you find classics though.

A touch of bitter, 2 words just under name :o) No, it never was. It was started as a storefront. There is nothing remotely archiving about the site. It was their gimmick to get customers in. An archive of games would be profit free, not swayed by modern needs or wants, or motivated by money, it's a very simple difference. The change has been a move from older games to newer games, the need to make money has not change. They are not your friends, they are not doing things for the benefit of society they have, and always have been doing it for the money.

Not sure where the idea comes from, GOG was always a business. They started as Good Old Games, selling classics because at the time there was a market-niche for them which they filled, and successfully so. The idea of GOG serving some preservation purpose is simply nothing more than idealising things.

Further underscored by the fact that they don't even call themselves "Good Old Games" anymore, and haven't done so for many years now.

Well, they preserve thousands and thousands of pages of forum mafia. I'm sure that's even somewhere in their mission statement.

The motives are not mutually exclusive, sometimes people try to build a business doing something they feel strongly about... such as preserving old games.

But that was never the intention . They didn't come along and say right we are going to preserve those games. They came along and said, we have found a niche in the market where older games are not being sold, we will try to acquire and sell those. At no point did they say,we want to act as an archive for old games. They might have liked older games, but that is irrelevant in the context of a business model, would they have continued out of the goodness of their own hearts if they were not making any money?

Voted for this classic

It isn't like they were threatened into it. Nope. Certainly not.

Nice little internet forum they got here.

Be a shame if something happened to it.

Shot six times in the back of the head.

Police called it the worst case of suicide they'd ever seen.