Might be me, but seems to me GOG. galaxy is turning into steam. I come to GOG to find older strategy games and haven't seen too many of the most voted for games released lately. Well I hope that I am wrong I am a big supporter of GOG, and hope to continue.


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Blacktoad69

in the first 6 months of 2016, we had 30 games of at least 10 years old. Cursory glance tells me that about half of those were Strategy, so it's about an old strategy game per week for 2016. Latest update for the year's releases here.
P.S. I did go with a cursory glance and memory, so the strategy games may have been less than half. Feel free to correct me.

No, if had turned into Steam, I'd have more interesting games to choose from.

Yeah, it's impossible to ninja the Jmich.

Like the rings on a tree, gog's age can almost be measured by these threads. I suppose there's about one a month on average. I furthermore suspect JMich has replies for these on standby XD

i am pretty sure he has a stack of replies on stand by for almost everything
especially these type of threads

I seriously need to start drinking again. Between this and regals I can't take sobriety any more.

.. for what it stands for now then?

Is it just me or has the rate of the appearance of these "why doesn't GOG release old games anymore?" threads slowed down in recent years?

I remember back in the day we might get even one or two of these threads per day, at least once a week, but now it seems we get one in a month, if we are lucky.

What has happened? Don't the gogsters (or the "goglioodligooglydoodies" like the professionals call us) care about old classics anymore, or have all the old classics been re-released by GOG.com already, or or or? These threads are the very reason I visit the forums frequently, if these didn't exist I could just as well hang around the Steampowered forums complaining about new games!

Is anyone gathering any real statistics about the frequency of these threads?

GOG is no longer an acronym. GOG is just GOG.

Looks like somebody needs to make a chart about how many "where are the old games at" are posted monthly. So that alarmed tinfoilhatwearers will stop worrying about supposed diminishing thread numbers.

So the "just" is silent then? :-P

I want to see gog release some more SSI games, they have most of them on there but why stop where they are at. I want to play heroes of the lance, buck rogers, and shadow sorceror. I dont want this to become an indieshit dumping ground like steam. I don't care if they want to release new games too it just seems like they barely add any classics anymore.

Part of the problem is sorting out the rights and various legalities, and as games get older these often get much more complicated, given that companies disappear, others buy the rights, etc., and after a while various things disappear in the general confusion.

This is, of course, a simplification, but it's more or less the way things seem to go.