It's the suicsaber!

No idea, but I imagine that those games available for digital purchase for years (unlike the stuff GOG published) would limit their profit potential (and this could be one of the reasons they're up for sale).

ah so thats the tool to fight against jedi vampires

I hear it was invented by the Jedi master Christ-Gon.

Sell them to the GOG audience for pure profit rather than a meagre cut they were getting before, I’m guessing. You’re probably right in that we wouldn’t see any continuation of those franchises in the foreseeable future though. Then again they've been languishing in purgatory for years anyway.

Your list is seriously outdated. From the games you mention above, about half of them never belonged to Interplay in the first place or no longer do so.

uhuh sure
so what makes you think the owners of those IP's want to play ball ?
or do you think paramount and cbs wil just let some other company buy the star trek video game ip's with out a veto ?
or a hell of a kick and struggle

and im pretty sure hasbro will have something to say about aaaaaal those dungeons and dragons games
yes all of them
they own the franchise

and finally
bethesda owns fallout lock stock and barrel
this includes 1 and 2

CDPR have done excellent by putting all their effort into one franchise, and appear to be doing the same with the next one, Cyberpunk 2077. They've also gone with a different direction that the typical party-based RPGs of old, with a lone character. I know next to nothing about the upcoming CP 2077 game(s), but I assume they'll be doing something similar there?

In any case, I think they'll be putting a lot of effort into that over the coming years, and am not sure if they have a big enough group of people to do something similar with an entire new (old) franchise.

As an idea it kind of fits, though. They prefer to work with an existing universe, instead of inventing everything from scratch. First with Sapkowski's work, and now CyberPunk.

I doubt EA will be interested, same for Activision, they're well established and likely won't invest in dead IP's.

Gonna be a little capital in here (sorry for the inconvenience) and will auto please myself:

GOG SHOULD BUY SOME IPs AND DOSBOX 'EM FOR LINUX!

;P

You're misinformed. Also, that's quite the assumption that most of use don't realize what Interplay used to be. The reason most of the die hard's are here is thanks to Interplay being the first to sell their classics here on GOG, all the way back in 2008-09. I'd say most of us very well remember Interplay's glory days.

The Alone in the Dark ip is currently owned by Atari, and Another World is owned by a company called Digital Lounge, and they released a 20th Anniversary Edition already. You can find both here on GOG.

Blackthrone is owned by Blizzard and iirc is freeware on their service now. Bard's Tale is owned by inXile Entertainment.

As for the D&D games and Star Trek games, those are both licensed, meaning multiple companies own the rights. Fallout is completely owned by Bethesda, who went through a lengthy court battle against Interplay. Pretty sure they don't own Fragile Allegiance either.

From your list, I count only 9 titles they actually own. None of which would be beneficial for CDPR. I already see publishers speaking about these IPs, and Devolver even put up a poll on Twitter asking which one they should grab (Earthworm Jim was winning).

Why would CDPR want to buy 50.63.173.71?

Well there's always Ubisoft Romania, then.

If you think about it, as it stands right now GOG makes a certain percentage off of every game sold in the store without assuming any of the risks of ownership of the given games owned and published by other companies. If they or CDPR were to own these games they might get a bigger slice of the pie selling these games, but then they also assume all of the risks of investment in those properties too, potentially without any of the developers who created the games on staff etc. They'd not only have to maintain the games on GOG but they'd have to also maintain them on Steam and/or elsewhere if they want the investment to truly maximize profit potential.

Except with certain specific extreme cases I can't see how that is feasible or sensible. The games GOG bought the rights to and are now the publisher of were super ancient and they probably picked them up for mere peanuts and had minimal effort to make them available in the store, plus those games fit in well with the type of gamer that shops here. All of that isn't applicable to every game out there that might be up for sale, nor even all of the Interplay games per se.

There might possibly be a few titles in the pile that might fit into GOG's publishing side of things perhaps but I wager that there are several other bigger name game development and publishing houses that have a lot more expertise in that side of the market than GOG does both in terms of number of employees and focus etc. I'd fear GOG was putting too many irons in the fire if they were to "buy the entire Interplay Catalogue" personally. As mentioned previously, THQ Nordic, or one of the other companies people have mentioned previously in the thread would make much more sense to buy these titles up and do something with them without being stretched thin in terms of cash on hand or manpower on hand. In turn, those companies are highly likely to sell those games here at GOG anyway, meaning they'd be available DRM-free likely and without GOG assuming the financial risks of actual game investment and ownership of perhaps expensive IPs.

Just imagine if GOG were to start investing in various available game IPs out there and turn out with some or many of them not only not being as profitable as they hoped but perhaps losing money. I mean the reason those games are on the market for sale in the first place is because the company that owns them is unable to turn enough profit off of them to remain in business right? Would we want GOG to buy them all and end up in the same position, jeopardizing the success they have at what they do well due to some speculative investments that went bad? I'd rather keep distribution and speculative investment in games of yesteryear left to other game companies that do that for a living and do it well.

All of the above is the same with CDPR except that they are solely focused on the development of video games, and right now pretty much video game.

At the same time, GOG themselves much more than any of us knows the statistics of how well those games sell here in their own store to date, at least for the titles that are available here. They could make reasonable judgments about those particular games and project profit over time from them to determine if it might make sense to put in an offer and they'd probably make a good call on them. But for titles that aren't here already it would be a lot more speculative. I'd have to wonder where the developers would come from that would then work on these games at GOG? Reassign people working on the website and/or Galaxy to working on a patch for MDK or whatever? No thanks! :)