The purple dot wants it's own 15 year anniversary.

This! It irks me.

My wishes would be games from:
Tecmo Koei (Fatal Frame, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dynasty Warriors)
Microsoft (Freelancer, classic Fable and Halo, Age of Empires 2, State of Decay)
Bandai Namco JP (Katamari, Tales series, Soul Calibur, Ni no Kuni series)
Capcom (Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Mega Man X)
Square Enix JP (Final Fantasy series, Octopath Traveler, ChronoTrigger)
EA (Desert/Jungle/Nuclear Strike, Mass Effect, Centurion: Defender of Rome)
Ubisoft (Far Cry 3+, Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed 2+)
SEGA (Bayonetta, Shenmue 1+2, Valkyria Chronicles, Persona, Catherine)
Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Detroit)

I'll save the rest of my wishes for newer titles like Starfield for the 20th anniversary. Realistically, I'll be happy when Boiling Point: Road to Hell drops.

15 is a big number, so I'd want to see something significant like a new publisher or more stuff from some of the studios that haven't really put anything meaningful on the store in a while. So, I'd want to see:

1) More Capcom stuff
2) Square-Enix
3) Some of the missing stuff from Bethesda like Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, RAGE
4) Bandai-Namco
5) More Sega stuff, though I suppose we already kinda know more is on the way


There's some rumblings that Civ 5 is happening, which would be fine, but it'd be super disappointing if that's all we got.

When did the site launch exactly? "Fall 2008" is as specific a date as I could find. Apparently it was sometime in September. I don't really hope for improvement anymore. When I first joined, I reported things that'd been broken for years (e.g. most wishlist filters). Not only are they still broken, but we've lost more features since, like the numbers in the user menu.

If I had a shred of trust left, it was shattered by the atrocious attitude from support (like not fixing a game page with false information and a forum link that points to General Discussion), the daily flood of spam which is now just a regular part of the forum, and the catastrophic CDN failure that was half-assedly addressed at a glacial pace. They got a huge game like Baldur's Gate 3 on release day, yet multiple people on the forum can't download it. I can't stress enough how tragically incompetent that is.

So as not to be entirely negative in this celebratory thread, I'll mention that the redesigned store page is pretty nice overall. The filters there can make up for the Discounted wishlist filter not working. Also, one of the earliest things I reported was not being able to search for games in certain languages, and that's been fixed.

The selection of games is one area where I'm not overly dissatisfied. My current collection will last me for the foreseeable future. My wishlist also keeps growing in spite of my attempts at restraint. I'd still like to see Dragon Age II, Dragon Age Inquisition, Dead Space 2, Dead Space 3, Life is Strange Remastered, Fallout 4, and a handful of others, but I'm not holding my breath. If Dead Space and Life Is Strange would go back on sale, that'd be a nice enough consolation prize.

I'm relieved GOG is still financially viable and I hope they'll stay that way another 15 years and beyond.

1 - Discworld games
2 - Amiga games (I know why it is not possible, but we can dream)
3 - More racing games such as Split/Second and Blur
4 - A modern and feature complete forum
5 - Classic 8-bit games from the C64/ Spectrum/ Amstrad
6 - Ensuring that games released here receive all their updates, it should be a contractual obligation
7 - Whenever an issue arises that we, your customers, are very unhappy about, engage with us about it. Don't stick your head in the sand and hope that the problem will go away.

For people talking about Capcom:

I also love their games, but I'd not have hopes for any of their games coming here because of how their company is being managed right now.

For GOGers to have an idea of how bad the situation is for Capcom, DRM, DLCs, Monetization and all this mentality in their company, Street Fighter 6 was recently released and, at the end of EVO, one of the biggest fighting games world championships, Capcom announced a colab for TMNT and Street Fighter 6, in which in game skins would be sold to players for them to customize their characters for the in-game online mode lobby.

The base game costs 60,00 dollars.
The Deluxe edition costs 85,00 dollars.
The Ultimate Edition costs 105,00 dollars.

The TMNT costumes cost in total 55,00 dollars.

https://www.polygon.com/23825800/street-fighter-6-sf6-tmnt-costumes-price-fighter-coins

And it may cost 100,00 dollars to unlock everything TMNT related on this colab:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/it-costs-100-to-unlock-all-of-street-fighter-6s-tmnt-content/

I sincerely do not think Capcom headquarters want anything with DRM-Free mentality right now.
If you analize Resident Evil 4 DLCs, Monster Hunter Sunrise expansion and skins DLCs too, you will understand what I mean.

I love their games, but I just lost hope on Capcom as a company. I have no hope on them anymore. They're lost to me.
Now we're probably going to get scandal after scandal about their DLCs, Seasons and expansions mentality...

Which, by the way, is sad, because Dragon's Dogma 2 will probably have A LOT of this crap mentality too, with all due respect to Capcom employees and managers.

And unfortunately, it looks like many other Japanese companies are doing exactly the same, with dlcs, expansion packs, skins, online only drmed content and so on, so while I'd also like to have more of their games here, I would not count on it.

I REALLY hope Im wrong, but facts show me otherwise.

My wishes are simple:

- That GOG remains faithful to their niche of DRM-Free with Offline Installers
- That they update and fix this Forum without making it a completely different beast breaking everything that is already stored in here
- That their curation team accepts more good indie games
- That they would try to get more good old triple A games from the past that were requested many times already
- That some kind of good deal could be made so that we get as many new releases as Steam does with companies that do have DRM-Free games on Steam by good companies (For example, Remnant 2 is said to be DRM-Free. Why is it not here? Why Remnant From The Ashes is not here too?)

Plus this:

The remaining Tomb Raiders would be nice, plus whatever Sega and Konami feel like offering up. Civ V is obviously much anticipated.

Pleasant surprises are, of course, welcome.

I wish you, GOG, a big statue of Golden GOG-Bear* in the very center of your headquarters, because working in the shade, he bravely and steadfastly delivers the best (imo) gaming experience on Earth :)

*(attached examples generated by Craiyon AI)

from the Epic Games Store:
Europa Universalis IV: Ultimate Bundle
Find an unparalleled grand strategy experience in the Europa Universalis IV: Ultimate Bundle, with years of content included in one package.
€389.99

<3 Paradox

Trying to remain somewhat "realistic", I hope for a game within the top 40 or so of the most-voted titles on the Community Wishlist. Far less realistic but maybe MS would give us Freelancer alone, since it's a one-off game and seemingly no interest in a remaster.

Or, some new old games from EA or Ubi. Like the games Ubi removed online features from back in late 2022 - bring the single-player content here.

Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection
American McGee's Alice + Madness Returns
Silent Hill 2 and 3
Chrono Trigger

Max Payne 1 and 2 should be easy brings but of course Rockstar has their billions already so why bother with GOG.

Edit: to echo a post above, TR Rise and Shadow, to finish the 2013 trilogy

Closer to reality arguably, Doom 2016 and hopefully the other missing Doom series' games and content (VR and Eternal and whatever else I may have missed). Not personal wishes of mine but some more closer-to-reality possibilities (I know many here would disagree, that's fine but I don't want to argue): Cities: Skylines, Hades, Subnautica, more games from SEGA like Total War titles...

I of course want Civ 5 here, but I'd like a "bigger deal" release for the anniversary (of course that's just my opinion). Though if Civ 1 and 2 were released around the same time, that'd be a big deal.

I'd like GOG to figure out more ways to fix 2nd class issues for important missing patches, but other than that I'm not particularly concerned about the site, Galaxy, accounts, etc.

Instead of a discount, all games now have a 15% markup for the rest of the day.

If they plan some spectacular release for the occasion, it would have to be something really quite big to top the Yakuza.

1. A mea culpa for their redefining of what no DRM for single player means in order to allow DRM-ed elements, removing all such DRM from existing titles, obviously starting with CDP's own, and offering binding guarantees that nothing of the sort will ever be allowed again.
2. Prioritizing offline installers, starting by simply listing them first in library, with Galaxy being the footnote, and ensuring update and availability parity between them and Galaxy versions (if such a thing would even still exist). For those who want something like that so badly, maybe also (re)launch a tool, portable (no installation required) and if possible even open source, to handle just downloading and updating, nothing else, or maybe work with the developer of an existing 3rd party tool to make it official.
3. Enforcing binding guarantees that all publishers will maintain update and single player content parity of the GOG version with that available anywhere else.
4. Return either to flat pricing or, though there's no way to make regional discounts fair either, at least ensure a single price for all wealthier regions and that none pays more than that, so the other regions get the same price or lower. (Surprising myself that I didn't put this as #2.)
5. Don't mess up the forum. Bring 24/7 moderation, but mainly for spam, tone down on censorship / topic police, and if you can fix some bugs, probably starting with the purple dot, that'd be nice, but above all don't mess it up. If it needs to stay just as it is to ensure that it won't get worse in any way, so be it.
6. Set up an automated and informative update notification system, so there will be no more missing blue dots, but also specify exactly what file(s) changed and press devs to include changelogs along with changes (and always include them when GOG makes the updates, of course), and fill in blanks by adding what users dig up on the dedicated thread to the changelog if need be. Also, introduce settings for users to hide notifications for hidden games or games with certain tags or for certain platforms
7. Bring back the incredibly responsive and nice support from the early days, with reps actually talking to users person to person and going above and beyond. And definitely bring back the my activity page. And if you need to keep that bot there at all, add a one-click way to make it go away and allow the submission of a regular support ticket for anyone who wishes it.
8. Bring back GOGMixes.
9. Start selling prepaid cards in stores worldwide.
10. A simpler and much less resource-intensive front page, including good old side-by-side lists of news and recent releases, with a good number showing at once and the ability to go back through them page by page as far as you want.

Let's leave it at that for now?