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Posted March 17, 2011
I wish GOG would return with the 'coming soon' tab :(.
Post edited March 17, 2011 by senbon
Posted March 17, 2011
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jpinsa: I have to agree. I haven't been at GOG as long as some of you guys, and I do really love the site, but GOG needs to become a little better at PR. There is almost NO activity on this site besides Tue and Thu. Business is business and if you want the customers, you have to keep there attention or they may wander.

I personally wouldn't mind seeing more updates in the way of:

List of games and publishers in the works (even if they don't come off) e.g We tried to get Lucas Arts, EA etc and it just didn't work, then everybody knows.

I'm not much for the whole "we've got a really cool game coming out on Thu but it's a secret".

Also, big one for me! I hardly ever see GOG team replying on threads such as this one, where there is a direct question, in fact I have seen some threads up to 5 pages with a save problem in the game and no answer from GOG?
GOG view the excitement of surprise releases as something that draws attention. They have stated this before on the forum. When you check the site and see X game is up, and it's a game you want, you are excited and immediately buy it. Gaming blogs and news sites report it because it is a surprise, a sudden development people are excited about. If they had a list of games coming soon and when they will release you might not check the site until the one you want comes out and you won't be as pumped, maybe you will wait to buy it.

There are certainly downsides to this strategy like people getting bored of waiting for a release they want and not checking the site as often, but then the gaming news sites would probably bring them back when a game they want comes out. It's all kind of logical when you think about it.

That said if Impulse, Gamersgate and other such sites get more and more into releasing classics and release them sooner than GOG, well, that could be an issue. If another site puts a classic up that I want and it's DRM free I am not a loyalist, I will buy the game there.
Posted March 17, 2011
That's it exactly StingingVelvet, I get very bored waiting to see what the next release is and then I'm usually dissapointed anyway. The last run of releases which has been a lot of strategy has not had me over excited. That said, obviously there are a lot of folks that will enjoy the latest releases.

Thing is, there are only certain games I'm looking for, I don't just buy anything because it's cheap.

I've been itching to buy at Steam, especially Lucas Arts, but I don't like their system. I'm hoping it will come to GOG but in the end I will get it at Steam if I have to.

All in all GOG is a great site, and obviously they can't please all of us, I understand, I simply would like a more active site and more feedback from the team in the forums.
Posted March 17, 2011
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Navagon: We were promised Farming Simulator 2002! Where is it GOG? ALL I SEE ARE LIES
I'm afraid the license from some obscure tractor peripheral manufacturer have run out.
Posted March 17, 2011
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jpinsa: All in all GOG is a great site, and obviously they can't please all of us, I understand, I simply would like a more active site and more feedback from the team in the forums.
I get ya.

Well Ubisoft and Activision keep releasing games here and we have a promise of another huge publisher deal coming in April or May, so I'm optimistic. It does suck when there is a string of releases you don't care about though (or last year before the shutdown prank when there were very few releases at all).
Posted March 17, 2011
i think it will be another exciting news on witcher 2 :D
Posted March 17, 2011
So, nothing today, I guess? :(
Posted March 17, 2011
... Didn't we just get a new game two days ago?
Posted March 17, 2011
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Miaghstir: I'm afraid the license from some obscure tractor peripheral manufacturer have run out.
You know I reckon I could make a tidy profit by providing a bullshit alternative to real world licensing problems. Wherever there's a licensing problem I could be there to paste in a suitable fictitious replacement to make it all nice and legally saleable again.

Mike trainers. Toyboater cars. JY lube.

There's definitely a market out there for this kind of thing.
Posted March 17, 2011
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Navagon: You know I reckon I could make a tidy profit by providing a bullshit alternative to real world licensing problems. Wherever there's a licensing problem I could be there to paste in a suitable fictitious replacement to make it all nice and legally saleable again.

Mike trainers. Toyboater cars. JY lube.

There's definitely a market out there for this kind of thing.
Sure, as long as someone knows how to create whatever arcane formats the game in question uses for its data.
Post edited March 17, 2011 by Miaghstir
Posted March 17, 2011
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Miaghstir: Sure, as long as someone knows how to create whatever arcane formats were used for the data.
You think that gluing the new logos on the relevant portions of the disc won't work?

I've got to rethink this a bit...
Posted March 17, 2011
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Miaghstir: Sure, as long as someone knows how to create whatever arcane formats were used for the data.
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Navagon: You think that gluing the new logos on the relevant portions of the disc won't work?

I've got to rethink this a bit...
I'm not sure replacing the copyright notices with "(C) Navagon" will be enough, no.
Posted March 17, 2011
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Miaghstir: I'm not sure replacing the copyright notices with "(C) Navagon" will be enough, no.
Oh no. The copyright would remain the copyright holder's. I'm not taking the bl- er... credit. For my work. No. Let them bathe in the glory of their reinvented products.
Posted March 18, 2011
I'm waiting for the 18th of May .
Posted March 24, 2011
New update or Release from ubisoft today!
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