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This is my favourite topic
Posted August 29, 2013
You know, if I have to pick which discussion to have daily, this one or the one about the +/- rep system, I think I rather have this one.
Posted August 29, 2013
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Gonchi: You know, if I have to pick which discussion to have daily, this one or the one about the +/- rep system, I think I rather have this one.
At least it have old games in it unlike the rep system one.
Posted August 29, 2013
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Gonchi: You know, if I have to pick which discussion to have daily, this one or the one about the +/- rep system, I think I rather have this one.
Almost afraid to ask considering the context of how you brought it up, but why would anyone care about the rep+/- system or have a complaint about it?
Posted August 29, 2013
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Gonchi: You know, if I have to pick which discussion to have daily, this one or the one about the +/- rep system, I think I rather have this one.
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Dernagon: Almost afraid to ask considering the context of how you brought it up, but why would anyone care about the rep+/- system or have a complaint about it?
Oh, god no, if you don't know then consider yourself blessed.
Posted August 29, 2013
My message thing came up and then vanished as soon as showed up, and alas I see why. XD I'm not proud and I also have not been guilty of said offense in several days, going on weeks.

More on topic, anyone here play Deathtrap Dungeon? The forum is a graveyard and I can't find anyone to tell me how to use bombs and stuff.
Posted August 29, 2013
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Dernagon: EDIT: Maybe I should have started off my topic with that statement in BOLD. I'll admit that. My bad.
Here is the problem with your thread. The title (including caps and ?!?). If the bold statement was the thread title, it would have been better.

An example would be a thread titled "Lamborghini is switching to agricultural equipment???" with a text of
We all know that Lamborghini started by making tractors, but then they moved on to supercars when Enzo refused to sell his supercars to the founder of Lamborghini. Do you think Lamborghini should expand its farm equipment selection?
As to what GOG should or shouldn't do, that's up to them (and CDP) to decide.
Going into game making isn't something I'd want GOG to do, best leave that to CDP Red. GOG doesn't have that much coding experience, while CDP Red does.
Going after emulation is also not something I'd like GOG to do, but that is something they should decide for themselves. They did ask the community, but I don't recall the answer off the top of my head.
As for games released in specific countries only, I think they are already going after them, assuming there is an english translation of said games.

P.S. As for GOG expanding, they were looking to opening a physical store for t-shirts and mugs a while back, but it's too long since I last heard something about it.
Posted August 29, 2013
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The thing about this thread is that it's a frustrating negative doom sayer thread that is trying to pass off as a meeting point for constructive and thought out discussion. You're grasping at straws to stay relevant, OP. Tell yourself you did not start typing up a rant only to realise half way through you sounded kinda douchy and whiny and to save face you're pretending you started the thread to invite debate around AN IMAGINARY PROBLEM. If you were earnest you wouldn't use a facetious rhetorical question for a thread title.

Sometimes I wish every computer with internet access would spontaneously combust and singe the eyebrows off of every doom sayer, nitpicker and passive aggressive man-child out there trying to pick everything apart and imagine problems where there are none. GOG has only ever expanded as a business, never narrowed down or cut back on it's operations. I'm amazed they can make a profit and grow selling dirt cheap games that they often fought long and hard to acquire. People these days... You do ten good deeds and you can be sure there will be people who only come out of the wood work to say the smallest deed was lacking.
Posted August 29, 2013
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amok: Soon?

Are you The Doctor?
Ah shit. I somehow managed to miss the release. Forgot that it's Thursday (yeah, I'm messed up, too much work, too little sleep). Only noticed the thread about the gameplay video on GOG's YT channel and thought it would take a while before the game would come here.
Posted August 29, 2013
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Dernagon: Would tweaking that Amiga emulator be realistically harder than it was to get a lot of these older DOS games to run? Almost all of those other platforms and consoles had more standardized hardware than DOS-based PCs.
Many Amiga (500) games were actually quite finicky about the setup where they'd run. Some needed Kickstart 1.2 (while most were fine with KS1.3), some wanted the memory expansion while some refused to work if you had it, some would require an extra floppy drive while some refused to work if you had one connected, etc. etc. So quite often GOG would still have to make a special setup for many games, even if most A500 games would run fine with vanilla A500 OCS + 1MB chip RAM + Kickstart 1.3 setup.
Posted August 29, 2013
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Sufyan: snip
Man, this, so this (yeah, people will have to click on the cute little arrow to find out what I'm referring to).
Posted August 29, 2013
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JMich: P.S. As for GOG expanding, they were looking to opening a physical store for t-shirts and mugs a while back, but it's too long since I last heard something about it.
Whatever happened to the online store?. Seems to have just disappeared...
Posted August 29, 2013
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nijuu: Whatever happened to the online store?. Seems to have just disappeared...
I was really hoping that would materialize too, lots of poster-worthy games on here.
Posted August 29, 2013
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Sufyan: The thing about this thread is that it's a frustrating negative doom sayer thread that is trying to pass off as a meeting point for constructive and thought out discussion. You're grasping at straws to stay relevant, OP. Tell yourself you did not start typing up a rant only to realise half way through you sounded kinda douchy and whiny and to save face you're pretending you started the thread to invite debate around AN IMAGINARY PROBLEM. If you were earnest you wouldn't use a facetious rhetorical question for a thread title.

Sometimes I wish every computer with internet access would spontaneously combust and singe the eyebrows off of every doom sayer, nitpicker and passive aggressive man-child out there trying to pick everything apart and imagine problems where there are none. GOG has only ever expanded as a business, never narrowed down or cut back on it's operations. I'm amazed they can make a profit and grow selling dirt cheap games that they often fought long and hard to acquire. People these days... You do ten good deeds and you can be sure there will be people who only come out of the wood work to say the smallest deed was lacking.
I'm glad to have been the +1 to make this high rated. This is exactly what happened.

Also, the ideas proposed, awful across the board.
Posted August 30, 2013
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JMich: P.S. As for GOG expanding, they were looking to opening a physical store for t-shirts and mugs a while back, but it's too long since I last heard something about it.
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nijuu: Whatever happened to the online store?. Seems to have just disappeared...
No idea. Last I recall was TET looking at possible stores. That was at the beginning of June though, which does mean summer happened.
Posted August 30, 2013
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Dernagon: Would tweaking that Amiga emulator be realistically harder than it was to get a lot of these older DOS games to run? Almost all of those other platforms and consoles had more standardized hardware than DOS-based PCs.
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timppu: Many Amiga (500) games were actually quite finicky about the setup where they'd run. Some needed Kickstart 1.2 (while most were fine with KS1.3), some wanted the memory expansion while some refused to work if you had it, some would require an extra floppy drive while some refused to work if you had one connected, etc. etc. So quite often GOG would still have to make a special setup for many games, even if most A500 games would run fine with vanilla A500 OCS + 1MB chip RAM + Kickstart 1.3 setup.
I have also heard but I don't know enough about programming to know whether it is true that the Amiga emulators use data/files from the Amiga operating system which are still copyrighted by Amiga making it difficult if not impossible for GOG to use those emulators legally.
Post edited August 30, 2013 by Piranjade
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