Good Indie Games
One thing I've noticed here is that there is a lot of love in the GOG community for indie games. And rightly so too! But this site has, by its very nature, been very much focussed on the output of major publishers from years gone by.
Is the inclusion of indie games - with the same compatibility, redownloadability* and DRM-free state - something you'd like to see either brought to GOG or a spin off site?
(GIG.com is, predictably, taken)
Personally, that's something I'd love to see. Sure, there are many digital download sites already supporting the indie community. But none would do it quite like GOG would, as we all well know. These sites have various policies on DRM that aren't always very transparent and compatibility is seldom universally guaranteed. Plus, a site dedicated to indie games would be a boon to the industry.
Anyway, it's something I'd love to see happen. Anyone with me on this one?
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I'd like to see it as well. In one of the interviews, I don't remember which, they mentioned that they were maybe possibly considering adding an indie tab to gog.com sometime in the distant future. I'd like that.

It's definitely not something that's too far detached from the nature of the site, that's for sure. Plus, for GOG, it would widen the demographic they attract. That's always a plus.

Woo! I was hoping I wasn't alone in this. Most of the games I've bought recently have been indie and they've been great. But while it's great that Steam support indie games as much as they do... it's still Steam.

I would also love to see this; I think the community driven nature of this site would be a very good fit for the indie scene.

Here's the interview I was talking about: http://gmzzz.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/5-questions-gog-com/
From the article:
Łukasz Kukawski: At the moment indie games are out of our focus. We have a long list of classics that need to be revived to the gamers and we concentrate all our resources on this. We’re aware of the growing indie market and as a fact we receive requests from indie developers to sell their games on GOG.com, but that’s something we have to think of and maybe we’ll add ‘indie genre’ to our catalogue someday.

That's still pretty promising. If there's enough of a demand from both the community and indie developers then GOG would be wise to tap that market when they're able to. I appreciate that now is not the time that most companies are looking to expand. But as a future consideration, it's a very strong one in my book.

Nope, not really, honestly. Direct2drive and Steam have plenty of indie games and I frequent other sites, too. I like that GOG has niche and isn't trying to be a jack of all trades like Steam. I think there's certainly a place for an indie-centric website, but I don't really think it's here. This is more nostalgia oriented. I kind of like that. It feels like I'm combing through a bargain bin of older hits.
Also, due to the age of the titles, I know I can play them on my laptop.

I agree that they'd have to be kept separate. Preferably with a separate domain name and somewhat separate identities.
But that's not something you'd like to see at all? Even though Steam requires broadband at all times and D2D pretty much only cater for North America 90% of the time? Neither of them are exactly DRM free.
To me, GOG-style indie game distribution seems infinitely better. Even though I've got more than my fair share of indie games on Steam already, I will admit.

Like with the console games on PC idea, I'm all for this, but only if it's on a separate site. Really, GOG has its own focus, and the catalogue will be huge by next year, I reckon -- I don't want a bunch of stuff with its own focus interfering with the GOG releases..it would be disorienting and unpleasant.
Perhaps if it was a separate site but the accounts were linked, that would be cool.
:)

One can always hope that, once CDProjekt are satisfied that GOG is up and running properly, and is a success, thus verifying the viability of the business model, they will start sister companies to GOG focusing on other niches, but still using the exact same business model.

It would definitely need a separate site and identity. No arguments there. GOG has its own purpose and identity and there is no sense in diluting that.
As for console game ports - it's certainly technically possible. But if these are to be emulated rather than ported, you've got the added problems regarding licensing from the console manufacturers also. Something which is highly unlikely to happen.
A clean port may be possible. But I don't know if GOG would find it economically viable given the increased workload that would place upon them on a per port basis.

Between that and the console manufacturers already having their outlets for that stuff, it's just not gonna happen anyway. I don't mind, I will just emulate myself. I'd buy the stuff I guess but I don't want a console, so..

D2D isn't bad with DRM, depending on the game. I can't speak to their availability in other countries - I only plan on using the service in this one. I've always been very pleased with them. Just yesterday, I re-downloaded Deus Ex on my laptop - which I haven't played in nearly two years and no longer have a copy of (my desktop, which was ancient, had a hard drive failure). They still had the billing info on file, no problem, no hassle, no need to call customer service. Besides GOG, they're my favorite.
Steam, well, they're pretty terrible with DRM (I hate that internet DRM stuff) but they do have a wide selection of stuff and they do have what I'm looking for a lot. They're also great at stocking indie games.