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mechmouse: Since no-one official has linked it up here, I thought I'd do it.

There is Q&A Interview with GOG's BizDev Department on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/5u8e2g/qa_interview_with_gogs_bizdev_department/
Thanks for the link. Hope they will tell us something interesting about their plans on catalog extending.
I'm not sure what kind of answers you guys will get on certain games coming to GOG, as JMich said... NDA will probably prevent them going into any details on that. But that doesn't mean you can't try. ;)

However, they are generally open to any questions about getting games on GOG such as things like what's the hardest part of it, how does GOG work with devs that don't want to work with them, how does GOG justify the whole DRM-free thing, how does GOG get things that are hard to get, etc. We are hoping to get some thoughtful questions, if so we may be able to get more interaction with other departments in GOG.

As always, people should also be aware not all questions may be answered.
PLS upvote my question, if you agree :P

http://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/5u8e2g/qa_interview_with_gogs_bizdev_department/ddtsr8s/
I still don`t get, what Reddit is good for.
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Maxvorstadt: I still don`t get, what Reddit is good for.
Absolutely nothing.
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Maxvorstadt: I still don`t get, what Reddit is good for.
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Breja: Absolutely nothing.
Fine, now I have this song stuck in my head for today!!!
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zeogold: Am I the only one who's slightly disturbed at the seemingly minimal amount of activity going on in there? I assumed the GOG Reddit community was way bigger than the forum, but it actually seems SMALLER.
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Breja: I don't use Reddit (still not even exactly sure what it is) and I honestly have no idea what would I ask that department? "Hey, so when are we getting the other Star Trek games?" I'm sure they'd give me an exact date :P
You could ask if the missing Star Trek games are all owned by Activision or something. Reddit is a good way to keep up-to-date on certain subjects, like r/games for gaming news and discussion.
Post edited February 17, 2017 by tfishell
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Maxvorstadt: I still don`t get, what Reddit is good for.
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Breja: Absolutely nothing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming is good, and
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick is very useful.
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mechmouse: Since no-one official has linked it up here, I thought I'd do it.

There is Q&A Interview with GOG's BizDev Department on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/5u8e2g/qa_interview_with_gogs_bizdev_department/
Thanks for the link. I'm looking forward to reading GOG's answers to a lot of the questions which have been asked thus far.
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adaliabooks: Why?

Reddit is social media... most of Gogs followers are fairly anti-social media.
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Bwaahhahahahaha.... you totally made me spill my drink LOL
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JMich: Because what kind of questions can you ask the BizDev department? Most of the questions will not be answerable since the negotiations are ongoing, and NDAs do exist.
If you are talking about the GOG reddit in general, no idea if it's less lively than other subreddits, don't really visit it that much.
I was tempted to track down my login info and log in and ask a question formulated in a generic boilerplate fashion with non-specifics and a hypothesized generic answer.

ie: When will <specific AAA game from big publisher be released on GOG>? You're looking into it and hope to be able to bring games of that nature to GOG in the future?</generic question + expected generic answer>


But it would take too much effort and I couldn't come up with any real zingers so ... :)
Post edited February 18, 2017 by skeletonbow
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mechmouse: [
You really think that question hasn't already been asked?!
I should have known.
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fortune_p_dawg: did that yesterday.
Thank you:)
Post edited February 18, 2017 by Moonbeam
My question: Why not buy the rights/collect the rights to older, abandoned games?

Like Voxar's Tumblebugs?

As far as I can tell, Voxar got into medical imaging, and then was absorbed into Toshiba and they're probably unaware that they've absorbed a game into their rights and could give less than 3 discarded aorta about it.

The publisher, Gametek died way back in 1997 and the assets were absorbed into Take 2. That doesn't really matter, I just wanted to note that Gametek did publish many interesting things.

Or how about Ascendancy, seeing as the Logic Factory recently vanished into the ether?

I question if We-Go interactive is even a legitimate company. I'm sure they'd cough up Re-Volt if enough pressure was put on them, if they haven't gone out of business since I last checked. And this time GOG could ask nicely for the Re-Volt GL edition!
Well, I'm glad someone asked about Japanese devs. That's frankly all I want to hear about at this point. The lack of major publishers is still obnoxious, but the absence of even the smaller guys is making it really, really difficult to be a GOG fan these days, particularly as Japanese devs are putting more of their stuff on PC.
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Chacranajxy: Well, I'm glad someone asked about Japanese devs. That's frankly all I want to hear about at this point. The lack of major publishers is still obnoxious, but the absence of even the smaller guys is making it really, really difficult to be a GOG fan these days, particularly as Japanese devs are putting more of their stuff on PC.
Like Gainax. And Princess Maker Refine. It's a 20+ year old game, can they really be that clingy about it, even if it is a version with remastered graphics?
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Breja: Absolutely nothing.
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kbnrylaec: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming is good, and
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick is very useful.
You do realise I was just referencing a song?