Whew thanks

In my opinion, whatever will make the site more money so they can keep offering the Good Old Games is fine. If they want to offer new releases, great. If not, no biggie. As long as they can keep operating.

To me, the issue is that while I would like to see some newer games and indie games here, I am afraid that it might shift GOG's focus away from offering old games. Providing older classics that cannot be bought anywhere else is their niche market, one where they face little competition. If they start selling more recent and/or indie games, it might cause the stream of old games to slow to a trickle. This is because their team is so small that they might not be able to handle old and new game releases simultaneously. They would also have to deal with the challenges of directly competing with other digital distribution sites.

If they could set up an additional team of new employees purely tasked with releasing newer games I would fully support the idea of expanding to other types of games. This is what I would understand by starting a "sister site." They could use the same storefront or a new one, I don't care. That's just cosmetics as you've pointed out. The important thing to me would be to keep the work on old and new releases mostly separate because I think otherwise the old games would probably suffer. You could see this happening with all the excitement surrounding the release of the Witcher 2 on GOG which would sometimes eclipse the site's main business.

I said that I'd buy newer games from you; I'd like to expand on that a little, though.

1. You only release two games a week as it is, so I hope that if you start releasing new games, you won't do it at the expense of releasing old ones. Maybe do the new releases on a different day or something.

2. You asked me how much I'd pay, and I put a number; but obviously, just like you have two different price points now, it would really depend on the game.

3. Like Vestin, I think the "sister site" thing is kind of silly. Give people a way of filtering out the new games if they want to, though.

Yeah, absolutely, me too!

One of the reasons I bought The Witcher 2 through GOG was to support that idea that I'll buy full priced games if there's no activation.

How to make gog grow more...

I put
give us system shock 2

hope it helps.

I've been here a little over 3 months, and have already purchased 98 games, most of which were on sale.

After reading through the 12 pages of comments so far, not many people are commenting on the question about possibly providing us the option to store our credit card information securely, so we wouldn't have to type it each time.

I certainly hope that if this idea is implemented, that it's completely optional, and that the default is "No, don't store the CC."

Further, I hope that:
- Any user moving their previous option from "Yes, I'd like to store that" to "No" would be informed that their CC was erased from the Database immedately.
- The CC server and the Web Server would be separate, and fire-walled. The CC Server could never disclose more than the final 4 digits of any CC # to the Web Server.
- GoG avoids the "Let them opt-out later if they don't like a change we've made" trap.

i have no creditcard and use paypal but i opted to keep it stored thinking it is handy for the people who have.

Where is the link to the survey?

Never mind, for some reason it didn't load the first time I clicked on the blog.

You can see it from the front page, but here's a direct link: http://www.gog.com/en/news/gog_annual_survey

http://www.gog.com/en/news/gog_annual_survey

But I had to tell "NoScript" in FireFox to temporarly allow two sites:
jotfor.ms
jotform.com

GOG, keep rockin' like you been rockin'!

I'd love to see new games, but as others have said *not* at the expense of the GoGs.

I used the "...I just like filling surveys." option because none of others suited me. I get most news about GOG from forum.

The only thing I really had to suggest was not to lock us out of our games for a week as a joke. I'm still a little bitter about that, but it hasn't stopped me from buying great games at great prices.