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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
Tick tock...
Posted June 02, 2011
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SLP2000: If you 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.
Also, the EA Store got blasted as being a travesty to gamers (back when there was a 90-day limit to when you could download/install a game...after that 90 days, you had to repurchase your game). So, there is still a stigma attached to the EADM. GoG's only stigma (that I know of) is their little re-launch stunt.
Posted June 02, 2011
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MichaelPalin: 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.
Because there is no profit in selling games with 5-10 euros _EACH_ to a limited audience. Take in consideration that GoG often gives the full series for 10 dollars and they make a considerable profit, sufficient to keep them alive and kicking not the less all this time.

As Ubisoft they might have signed a few of their titles like others speculated is not unheard of.

Less than 2 hours left and I would suggest that you stop your whining about whomever it's going to be, be grateful that one of them will have their games here on GoG DRM Free with extra goodies.
Post edited June 02, 2011 by Xristina
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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SLP2000: 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.
THIS! +1

Steam and the EA Store, cater to a vastly different demographic/market then GOG does. I mean yes there is some overlap, but as a whole Steam/Other Stores serve a different function then GOG does. Plus GOG does all of the hard work in terms of getting the games to work on modern O/S.

So, it is a win-win situation in my opinion.Just have to get publishers confident in the model and service.
Posted June 02, 2011
Hoping for EA. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Dungeon Keeper by the end of the day would be awesome.

Sorry Lucasarts, but point-and-click adventures do not interest me. If it's lucasarts, I'll turn around and do something else until the next big announcement.

I would even buy the Sims Complete (shudder)
Post edited June 02, 2011 by Sadnasser
Posted June 02, 2011
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Merkaba: The evil Doctor's Twitter account seems to be pointing towards EA...

"Whazh hei you sy? *hic! Teh rafcase? *hic! Thez a fomula frm... *hic! *hic! inurbvne arts *hic!"
Maybe he was just being rude and just wanted to say "In your bovine arse" in drunkard lingo.

inurvbne sounds nothing like "Lucas" or "Electronic" :(
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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SLP2000: 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.
The other problem is that Steam and EA likely won't do anything to ensure the games are compatible with modern systems or even that they run properly. I remember Steam having had issues with some old Jedi Knight code. and let's face it, if you bought an older game from Steam/EA and it didn't work because they offered it "as is", would you want to buy other older games from them?
Posted June 02, 2011
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Longcat: Are you retarded? Or have you just not been paying attention for the last past week?
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hulksjedi: 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.
Heh, I didn't mean to insult anyone, but you did claim a prize without bothering to read up. So grow up, sticks and stones may break my bones and all that. And yes, I am the kind of person who would say that in real life, in a heartbeat. People can surprise you like that, see;) I respect those who earn my respect, and so should you.
Posted June 02, 2011
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Ein7919: GoG's only stigma (that I know of) is their little re-launch stunt.
And for some of us that stunt is a great joke, which I'm afraid EADM policy wasn't.
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Sadnasser: Hoping for EA. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Dungeon Keeper by the end of the day would be awesome.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is 2K games (they own Firaxis Games).


ps.

Just for the record - I know we are getting one publisher (GOG said it will be one of the five now, and they hope two more until the end of the year) and I'm almost sure it's EA, but I can see a scenario with both "Arts" being announced today.

It would be GOG style to make a prank and announce they could not decide which Arst they want to sign, so they signed both.

It's not a big chance, but it is possible.
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Posted June 02, 2011
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SLP2000: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is 2K games (they own Firaxis Games)
EA published SMAC and I'm fairly sure they still have the rights.
Posted June 02, 2011
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SLP2000: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is 2K games (they own Firaxis Games)
EA published Alpha back in the days.
Posted June 02, 2011
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Ein7919: GoG's only stigma (that I know of) is their little re-launch stunt.
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SLP2000: And for some of us that stunt is a great joke, which I'm afraid EADM policy wasn't.
Personally, I thought it (the re-launch event) was a gas. And yes, I would say that the EADM policy was precisely why I never used it (until EA Customer Support required me to use it to register new copies of Sims 3 and Red Alert 3, that is).
Posted June 02, 2011
Firaxus can't make an Alpha Centauri 2 because EA still owns the rights, otherwise, they would have done so.
Posted June 02, 2011
Hopefully I'll be playing Wing Commander by the end of the day
Posted June 02, 2011
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SLP2000: On GOG everyone is a target customer, and the user base is pretty big.
Steam still has like 15-20 times more users than gog and they sell old games there too. I wouldn't be so sure that gog would be more profitable than Steam for old games, although maybe I'm just pushing my hate for EA too far.
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