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Posted May 27, 2011
Dr.M. has stolen our marketing plans, taken our game masters, absconded with our video trailers, and pilfered our contracts! Coala suggests that we should track down the evil Dr., but how in the world can we do that? We know that he has our "Get HUGE" formula, and we suspect that Dr. M. is going to the headquarters of our next publisher--and we know it's one of the five we've already mentioned in our CDP Days Conference this Spring. One of our clever developer guys pointed out that the only way that Dr. M. could have found GOG's secret headquarters (as opposed to our regular, non-secret one) would be to have put a tracking device somewhere. We've tracked Dr. M's tracker (ha! Take that, evil!) and we're plotting his location on a world map with each of our possible upcoming publishers' locations in them. Keep tuned for more updates as we triangulate on the signal and try to track down...the DASTARDLY DR. M.!


the mysterious Dr. M. made his appearance was way back in September, when we re-launched and moved the service out from the beta. Now, with the big announcement quickly approaching, it seems that Dr. M. has come out of the shadow once again. What's he up to this time? Find out more in the tale of great horror, entitled "Dr. M. & The Dastardly Doom". What horrors await? What grim future is coming to GOG.com?

We'll be posting the next pages of the comic in the next days so stay tuned to this news post as the story will reveal more info on Dr. M. and the secret briefcase!
Post edited June 02, 2011 by Cook
Posted June 02, 2011
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K387: 25 titles? Does Lucas Arts even have 25 titles that would make the cut? Don't get me wrong, I know they've got a bunch, but I have a bit of a hard time seeing KOTR for example or other similarly aged titles as being part of it.
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Taleroth: Lucasarts has far more than 25 titles. They have 15 adventure titles alone, without getting into the Star Wars games.

And KOTOR is both older and better than several games already on GoG.
Lucas Arts did not make KOTOR. Bioware made KOTOR!

Remember, LucasArts/EA wanted Bioware to make the new MMO because of KOTOR.
Posted June 02, 2011
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gumbyfan: Lucas Arts did not make KOTOR. Bioware made KOTOR!

Remember, LucasArts/EA wanted Bioware to make the new MMO because of KOTOR.
Nobody said Lucasarts made KOTOR. We already know it was Bioware. But the developer is wholly irrelevant.
Post edited June 02, 2011 by Taleroth
Posted June 02, 2011
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Taleroth: Lucasarts has far more than 25 titles. They have 15 adventure titles alone, without getting into the Star Wars games.

And KOTOR is both older and better than several games already on GoG.
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gumbyfan: Lucas Arts did not make KOTOR. Bioware made KOTOR!

Remember, LucasArts/EA wanted Bioware to make the new MMO because of KOTOR.
i know they didn't make the game. My point was that it would be in their catalogue
Posted June 02, 2011
@Taleroth and K387:

I understand now.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I still hope that Lucas Arts is the "winner" though.
(I have wanted a copy of Sam and Max: HtR for a long time. )
Well, time for me to resume "C:/reactions/WaitPatiently.exe"
Posted June 02, 2011
I would be happy with LucasArts, but THRILLED with EA.
Posted June 02, 2011
I'd sell the children of several people here for Lucasarts.

I'd take a nap if it's EA.
Posted June 02, 2011
Have someone else notice that the image of the map on this post has the five publishers listed under it but just TWO ARE HIGHLIGHTED? EA and Lucasarts.

Someone uploaded the wrong image at the wrong time.

I want my prize for having found that.
Posted June 02, 2011
Uh, they grayed out the others one at a time over the last few days. It's been down to Lucas Arts and EA since yesterday. We won't know which until the conference in less than 2 hours.
Posted June 02, 2011
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hulksjedi: Have someone else notice that the image of the map on this post has the five publishers listed under it but just TWO ARE HIGHLIGHTED? EA and Lucasarts.

Someone uploaded the wrong image at the wrong time.

I want my prize for having found that.
Are you retarded? Or have you just not been paying attention for the last past week?
Posted June 02, 2011
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Taleroth: I'd sell the children of several people here for Lucasarts.

I'd take a nap if it's EA.
What would you do if it where BOTH publishers? One can dream right?
Posted June 02, 2011
Seriously guys, it cannot be EA, nor Microsoft either. It would be as insane as if Valve would release games here too. We are talking about companies that a) have their own stores to sell their games and b) love DRM with a passion. Besides, EA has far more than 25 titles, they probably have even 50 if they wanted too. Oh!, man, I do hate EA. If it were them, I wouldn't be able to hate them anymore, life would not make any sense. So, no, it's definitely Lucas Arts.
Posted June 02, 2011
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MichaelPalin: Seriously guys, it cannot be EA, nor Microsoft either. It would be as insane as if Valve would release games here too. We are talking about companies that a) have their own stores to sell their games and b) love DRM with a passion. Besides, EA has far more than 25 titles, they probably have even 50 if they wanted too. Oh!, man, I do hate EA. If it were them, I wouldn't be able to hate them anymore, life would not make any sense. So, no, it's definitely Lucas Arts.
I realize EA's stance on DRM, but perhaps they were willing to negotiate on some of the GOGs that only pass for vaporware right now. Some money is better than no money on the classics from the past, and being the only legitimate way to buy them is through the used market space in which EA isn't compensated may be a reason they would be willing to put aside DRM on a select few (25) of their software titles.
Posted June 02, 2011
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hulksjedi: Have someone else notice that the image of the map on this post has the five publishers listed under it but just TWO ARE HIGHLIGHTED? EA and Lucasarts.

Someone uploaded the wrong image at the wrong time.

I want my prize for having found that.
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Longcat: Are you retarded? Or have you just not been paying attention for the last past week?
Why'd you insulted me? I haven't done anything to you. I haven't following this as close as I wanted to, missed that piece of info that's all. No need to insult someone like that just for free.

You're the kind of guy who says that online but you WOULD NEVER come out like that in real life.

Have some respect for people and for yourself mate. No need to come out strong like you did. We're all gamers here.
Posted June 02, 2011
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MichaelPalin: Seriously guys, it cannot be EA, nor Microsoft either. It would be as insane as if Valve would release games here too. We are talking about companies that a) have their own stores to sell their games and b) love DRM with a passion. Besides, EA has far more than 25 titles, they probably have even 50 if they wanted too. Oh!, man, I do hate EA. If it were them, I wouldn't be able to hate them anymore, life would not make any sense. So, no, it's definitely Lucas Arts.
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rjspring: I realize EA's stance on DRM, but perhaps they were willing to negotiate on some of the GOGs that only pass for vaporware right now. Some money is better than no money on the classics from the past, and being the only legitimate way to buy them is through the used market space in which EA isn't compensated may be a reason they would be willing to put aside DRM on a select few (25) of their software titles.
Definitely, EA is sitting on a mountain of potential profit, but I don't understand why wouldn't they sell the games themselves, or even through Steam for that matter. Anyway, only 1:30 for the big surprise/expected news.
Posted June 02, 2011
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MichaelPalin: Seriously guys, it cannot be EA, nor Microsoft either. It would be as insane as if Valve would release games here too. We are talking about companies that a) have their own stores to sell their games and b) love DRM with a passion. Besides, EA has far more than 25 titles, they probably have even 50 if they wanted too. Oh!, man, I do hate EA. If it were them, I wouldn't be able to hate them anymore, life would not make any sense. So, no, it's definitely Lucas Arts.
AS I pointed out before, for older titles GOG is the first place for a release, not Steam or their own store. Why? Because both ea store and steam are for the new games in the first place.

If they release Ultima pack or Wing Commander pack on Steam, most ppl won't buy it, because graphics are not cool or game is too hard. Same for ea store.

On GOG everyone is a target customer, and the user base is pretty big.
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