I'll echo other peoples comments about the CIV games, Max Payne and so on.

17 Pages in 16 hours, its clear this is one of the publishers people have been waiting for. All we can hope is that the huge wad of cash they've just made makes them open to releasing much more of their catalogue.

Not by 2K, but by Rockstar and there is no guarantee that GOG has actually signed with them.

Actually both enforcer and interceptor were still developed by MicroProse ...

So many games to look forward to! Perhaps Pirates! as soon as I can negotiate a yes from my wallet. :)

We still don't have the Linux ports of Larry Reloaded, Banner Saga, Dying Light, Metro and some other more recent games either, so I wouldn't be surprised if the DRM-free versions of those would be Windows exclusive too.
I was just hoping for DosBox and WINE packages of the old games for Linux so we don't have to make those ourselves out of the Windows installers.
I've decided to not buy them until they support Linux which would be an incredibly easy task with the old ones, it seems to be a rights problem, hopefully it gets resolved.

They don't want to bother with keeping games updated on different sites.

Who knows? Maybe Mobygames operates by releases and there hasn't been a Prey rerelease ever since Bethesda acquired Prey (not sure about how it goes with other games).

When they were asked about a possible GOG release of Talos Principle, they said...

Yep, I'm definitely sticking with dickheaded, especially when the Steam version of Serious Sam 2 is essentially DRM free already.
Sigh.

It's not like they update the HD versions of Serious Sam TFE and TSE or even SS3 all that much. Really seems like they're being dicks for the sake of it.

It certainly feels like it, that or it's just colossal laziness.

They seem to be swimming in money if they have no interest in the tiniest amount of work in order to sell us anything, not even their old stuff.

They made DRM-free offline installers for a Humbe Bundle once.

Not sure what you mean. Take-Two bought the rights of the Civilization franchise from Infogrames which had bought Hasbro before which had bought MicroProse and Avalon Hill from Activision which had bought MicroProse and Avalon Hill and therefore the rights of the Civilization name.

Not very easy to follow but according to industry standards for a best-selling brand quite normal and far from legal limbo. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_%28series%29)

And somewhere in the meantime Activision bought a license to make Call to Power and made it. So while Call to Power is not made by MicroProse or Firaxis I would regard it as legitimate member of the Civilization family. And in some ways (post nuclear war, armies) it even was ahead of its time when published.

So now Take-Two Interactive owns the rights to all Civilizations except Call to Power which still belongs to Activision. Activision was on GOG earlier, so Call to Power was here earlier and it's not badly rated. People generally see it as a good Civ 2 clone.

Not to forget Alpha Centauri which is very similar and belongs to EA.

All in all I hope for Civ 2-4 (Civ 1 only for nostalgic reasons) and maybe V (one dares to hope).

Civ 3 and Civ 4 already have been offered without DRM on special occasions. So I guess there is not much to do for the publishers and GOG.

It's their way of maximizing the profit (and a quite common one in the whole commercial world for that). Actually nobody is forcing bundle price on you. You can still buy them separately.

The reason why a bundle has a higher discount is that maybe not all games in a bundle interest you equally, so they have to lower the price of the bundle in order to make it attractive for the customer. If the price is still not attractive enough for you, buy only the single games from the bundle. If the price of the single games is not attractive at all, don't buy or wait until another sale happens.

The general idea is that you spent a bit more than you would have spent otherwise while getting some additional mediocre games you didn't really want to play but might give a try for that price.

You cannot expect them to only sell you the games you really want to have and for a very cheap price too - because then they would not make enough profit.

I have sympathy for special bundles discounts as long as you can get say at least half of the games in the bundle (the good ones) cheaper than the price of the whole bundle. So it obviously depends on the spread between the bundle discount versus the single game discount.

Btw. It's also possible to permanently delete games from a library (iirc by a support ticket basis). But hiding them in the library and never looking again at them should be sufficient in most cases. Heck, I have good games that I actually want to play and I never downloaded them and played them so far.

Oooooh. Max Payne. How could we forget ole' Max?