Gamers should be able to do more than vote on a game they want.

They should be able to PreOrder it. Not in the traditional sense. Maybe call it VoteOrder or something, as it's clearly different than PreOrdering.

Seriously.

If you want them to remake a classic bad enough, you should be able to put 10 dollars/euros/etc down on that game. At any point, you'd have the right to cancel and get your money back.

But the VoteOrder would be under the agreement that if GoG remade the game while you still had the VoteOrder, that (if the VoteOrder amount was sufficient) you'd automatically have the game added to your game inventory, and GoG would then know they could keep said money. If the VoteOrder was insufficient, you would only have to pay the difference to get the game. If the VoteOrder exceeded the price of the game, you would be credited back the difference, or maybe get in-store credit.

It's WIN-WIN.

And VoteOrders give us gamers a FAR more powerful method of voting for a game. Traditional voting is more of a "I love that game" whereas VoteOrders is more of a "I will actually buy that game, shut up and take my money!"

And money keeps GOG afloat. Not votes.

(Now, we'd have to have limitations, of course. Can't VoteOrder more than x dollars/euros/etc for any classic game. And can't have more than y dollars/euros/etc in total pending VoteOrders)

I would even VoteOrder some arcade console classics! If there was enough money literally just sitting around waiting for some old gaming developer to be had within a few days, many more classic games that were actually wanted would be actually remade. (All GOG has to do is incorporate an existing ROM into a good emulator they could license on the cheap; all the owner of the game has to do is give them the go-ahead to do so) I'm sure I"m not the only one.

GOG would simply not talk of games that might be added via this method. Any developer would know they'd INSTANTLY have x dollars/euros/etc, and would also be able to deduce how much more money would likely follow after it was for sale, based on previous games' statistics for VoteOrder funds vs funds that followed after GOG released such games.

It's like crowd funding, only there won't be the occasional developer ripping off some people by not delivering on their promises!

If the game isn't done, the money can always be returned. If the game is redone, unlike many crowd sourced games, it doesn't fall short of expectations, because it's already a finished, polished game, and GOG is too good to mess up a game. And it's only like $10 or equivalent, so it's not like people won't do it for a few old favorites. This is far different than preordering a game for $60.

And if you don't like the idea? Simple. Don't VoteOrder. It's that simple. If you do like the idea, do VoteOrder. This is just an option. The old voting method will still be there. Game makers will still want GOG to convert classic games regardless.

But first it needs to be implemented! So, if you do like this order, say it and say it loudly in this thread. The more that voice their opinion for VoteOrdering, the more likely they'll implement this change.

I disagree. The vast majority of old games (in US currency anyway) are only $9.99 or $5.99. Odds are good there are only 2 common prices for most old games in other currencies as well. And this would only apply to old games obviously. Which means that most games could be VoteOrdered at $9.99. If it ended up being $5.99, it's as simple as crediting back $4. GoG would not allow you, for instance, to VoteOrder Star Wars Episode 1: Racer for $59.99. It would cap out all VoteOrders at the most expensive common price for old, classic games. In USD this would be $9.99, in other currencies, whatever the equivalent is for that region.

As I said:

Taking money for something company does not know if it can deliver is a nonsense.

I hate to jump on a bandwagon, but that idea is so stupid I'm surprised it's not one of mine.

How long would you be able to wait before wanting to be refunded for voteordering something that is never coming on GoG?

What good would it be for Gog to take money on something they might not be able to deliver (or might deliver, but not be able to offer proper quality "control" over)? How many refunds would they have to make with that system?

Who wants to make their money "sleep" on some site in wait for the possibility a product *might* come. And again the product you so desire might not be delivered in a way you actually desire (for example the Final Fantasy 7 remake WILL have changes made to it, there's already people not sure if the final product will be what they wanted a remake of that game to be). With your system EVERY game would be that. Will it be good, or will it be crap? Who knows?!

Nah. Preordering and voteordering generally are not a good idea.

The current wishlist (while it might not be to everyone's liking) is a good system that makes it possible for gamers to show interest AND gives leverage to GoG when they approach devs/publishers.

VoteOrdering sounds like something politicians and so called elected leaders do in my country.

Oh my god.

This... this is the dumbest thing I have seen here yet. My brain just collapsed. I don't even know where to start. How.. why... argh.

It sounds like something EA could have done..!

Well, we already have kickstarter for that.

While this does at first sound stupid, as poster above just mentioned, this is not too far off from Kickstarter, where people put money towards something that may or may not actually happen.

Give us money for that thing you want that we haven't promised we'll do yet, and if we decide to do it, you can give us more money to get it for good. Deal?

Somehow you took a bad idea (pre-ordering) and made it worse by removing the actual pre-order item. Somewhere an evil monkey is shedding a tear in admiration...

Someone get Danger Mouse, Penfold has lost control...

Yes, but at least there they put money towards something that, barring fraud, is at least supposed to happen. As in, someone actually intends to make it. And is able to make it, at least in legal sense. This on the other hand is as if I started a kickstarter for Disney to make a Fantastic Four movie. This idea is the "throwing my money at the screen but nothing is happening" meme come to life.