GOG's 15th birthday is getting closer and closer, and it's a pretty big milestone that will presumably be celebrated with great pomp by GOG, so I was wondering what your wishes are, whether crazy or more realistic, and what you would like to see improved.

Personally, I'd like to see a new modern forum launched and the current one archived, and maybe some new features for the GOG profiles.

As for games, I'm expecting Civilization V and I have an hunch that a deal for something big with Square Enix is possible. But I'd also be fine with something from Capcom or Bandai Namco. Lastly, I think there will be at least one new classic game, but I have no idea what it might be.

For one thing, they could fix the big they introduced for the 10th Anniversary when they wrecked the website, the bug that causes all of the user reviews, past, present, and future, to have strange symbols suddenly appearing in them, which the authors of those reviews never wrote, in any place where the authors had written an ampersand character.

IIRC I have been complaining about that bug in every official Anniversary thread since the 10th Anniversary and asking GOG to fix it. But yet they never have (and maybe never will?).

I guess they want to give that bug its own 5 year anniversary? And maybe more than 5 are coming too.

A new forum, a new review system, a new website, better games management, better Linux support, better management, less unqualified pornography, better communication, support for transparency in avatars, the ability to hide updates...basically I need a lot of incentives to start buying games again.

(Especially when there are websites from the 2000s that have more features than here.)

Skyrim relea... oh wait:)

- Putting an end to the Galaxy experiment.
- Adding the missing Linux builds of games that have one available "elsewhere".
- Releasing Freelancer, Crimson Skies and Civilization 2.

Everything else is already Good Enough™ for me, including the website and forum.

I don't think GOG is making enough money for anything huge, but maybe Fallout 4 or Doom 2016, possibly the remaining Tomb Raider games. Sega did release Yakuza here, so maybe we could finally get some of the 2D Sonic Games, since those are legitimately good old games at this point. Honestly Sonic Adventure is like what.... 17 years old at this point? The new Metal Gear collection wouldn't hurt either.

I wish GOG to remove this forum from their websites in their entirety, just like what Epic do

That way they don't have to pretend that they care for this forum in the first place

Release of all the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit games, all the missing Star Trek games, a surprise release of Thronebreaker 2, giveaway of Return to Monkey Island, removal of DRM from Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk, fixing tags and return of the movie section with a release of all the films starring Reb Brown.

A giant point and click adventure sale and release of new point and click games.

I wish for "new" old Ubisoft games, particularly Assassin's Creed (unlikely) and classic Microsoft strategy games like Age of Empires or Rise of Nations (even more unlikely). A guy can dream.

In general, to stop endlessly dividing the community in half with gimmicks and refocus on the getting the basics right that would benefit all users:-

+ Make another serious attempt at getting many missing sequels here by publishers who already have games here.

+ Keep the AAA momentum going. After Skyrim, I know many are waiting for Fallout 4. I'd love to see The Talos Principle 2 here, etc. Are we happy to wait 1 year due to DRM concerns / Epic timed exclusivity? Yes. Should we also be past the point of needing to wait 10-15 years for an AAA game to be deemed "old" enough to sell here after games like Prey (2017) and Metro Exodus (2019) came here by 2020? Also yes.

+ Restore the ability (that GOG had pre-Galaxy) to give recipients of gifted games (redeemed via code) proof of ownership / code redemption. It's crazy that Orders & Settings > Down Arrow -> View Receipt has been broken for gifted games for 8 years now, that if a relative bought you an expensive $60 game and you redeemed the code, there's no "You have redeemed this game, keep this email as your receipt" email of any kind (that all your competitors provide)...

+ Better forum software, responsive site design, editable user reviews, better support ticket process, copy the changelogs that the community update here into the related section in Game Cards (or at least appoint a Community Moderator to be able to do so), etc. As many have said, each one seems objectively trivial by itself but when you improve 10-20x minor things, the overall "clunky vs smooth" subjective site experience increases by more than the sum of its parts.

A GOG exclusive release of Half-Life 3 would be nice.
Other than that, there is really nothing to wish for or to complain about.

I expect them to improve on the website really (and the forums why not) and then, getting version parity with Steam on some games and why not, more games, specially indies that are like 10 years old now but somehow never came here (like Thomas Was Alone...).

Mostly castles-in-the-sky material, but here it goes:

- more new resp. renewed partnerships, similar to the SEGA one, mainly for DRM-free re-releases from the corresponding back catalogues, but also for more recent titles, with, for instance:
Microsoft (MechCommander 1 & 2, among others)
Sony (the entire Psygnosis back catalogue)
Ubisoft (original Prince of Persia Trilogy, among others)
Blizzard (Legacy Diablo 2 + LoD, Lost Vikings series, Blackthorne, etc)
Activision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_video_games)
...

- sell emulated games (Amiga, Atari, C64, Turbografx, PC-98, etc)

- make the community wishlist votes actually one of the two or three main criteria in the curation process, and communicate it accordingly to further incentivise dropping votes on titles people really want to see added to the GoG catalogue

- bring back GoGMixes

- release Devotion

- more effort in securing as many localised versions of (re-)released games as possible

- more employees/staff, especially in Support