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I'd have to disagree that Netflix is killing Gog's movies, for me what's killing it is still DVDs. I have absolutely no desire to watch a film on a phone or to tie up my computer when I could just put a DVD in its player and watch on my TV. DVDs are much cheaper too, I can get most things for £3 or less, no internet dependancy and I can resell the copy as I wish.

Digital media is inherently inferior to having a physical copy unless it can:

Act as a cloud (for me, irrelevant as mentioned above)
Be much cheaper (Gog's software titles on sale are much cheaper than on disc)
>Offer something unique/unusual

The main problem I'm seeing at the moment is everyone in the wishlist requesting /awesome/ films that are available everywhere, that everyone's already seen. Bring me something obscure that I can't get for myself and maybe you'll have a sale.

As for the service dying out - is it actually costing anything extra to run it? If not, it won't die, unless it becomes embarrassing.

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They said in the past that DRM-free wasn't the problem (even a big studio was willing to release DRM-free movies). But world-wide distribution was a big problem and so they could only get documentaries and some indie movies (which probably didn't sell very well).

Deads dead baby.

With the region locks they have in place they could probably start selling movies in small areas right away if they wanted. I guess the biggest problem was that nobody perceived movies as their area of core expertise. There never was a critical mass of movies and customers (maybe one because of the other). Just imagine GOG would not have sold old video games but just movies. They would probably have followed the path much more aggressively.

Now it's as dead as something can be.

Movies were abandoned because people voted against region blocks.
Now we have region blocks anyway.

GOG Movies was never alive to begin with - and hardly contains any actual movies. The only ones worth getting are 'The Gamers' movies IMO. Those are great!

About as lively as Borscht Weekly, the only magazine to dedicate itself entirely to this spicy soup.

It's dead because it's all garbage. Get some movies that people have actually heard of.

"Ink" and "The Frame" are excellent.

I got many great DRM-free indie movies from Devolver via bundles but you can also buy them from Vimeo, here's a thread about all that:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_movies

My favourite is "A Line in the Sand" which is a movie adaptation of a theatrical play and really should be here.

Documentaries are movies, too -- a film doesn't cease to be a film just because it doesn't interest many people. ; )

That's right of course. But since GOG is mostly trying to sell something which hardly interests anyone in their Movie section, it's no wonder that it was stillborn. A film is still a film even if it interests no one. It's just not economically relevant - and GOG is a business.

But I might check out Ink or The Frame in the next sale.

I think it's been ages since any of the movies were discounted, so you might end up waiting quite a while...