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The survey ends on Thursday, October 27 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
On the Amiga thing: Last time we voted I voted for Amiga and Dreamcast. There are many superior Amiga versions to games available on the PC and because of increased color palette, friendliness to multitasking, and just plain easier to configure I'd really like to see these here. Syndicate/American Missions was one of those that was better on the Amiga.

Additionally the original Command and Conquer games are now freeware - but not all the expansions. I'd be more than happy to by Covert Ops here particularly if it came with the mods.

A particular vote for Koei's strategy games. And if the Playstation is ever served here the Front Mission series.

One thing I think is really lacking is that I think Gog needs to keep mods of its games on its own server and make it an option to download all of those (plus maps etc.) at the same time.
Completed the survey, but I think that my suggestions will be ignored. For one thing, I'm sure my opinion on new games here is totally unpopular. I'm sure most people think it's a great idea, but I really don't. There are tons of places to get brand new or recent games. Games stores, video stores, department stores, even my local drug store has new games. Then there's a huge number online like GameStop, Amazon, eBay, and sometimes directly from the company that makes the game.

There are precious few places anywhere with retro games. Even fewer that are actually reliable. GOG is one of those. If they clog up their time and effort with getting the latest and greatest, when are they going to have the time, money and energy to restore these classics. Remember what the name stands for: Great OLD Games, not great New games.

Like I said, though... I'm sure I'm in the minority. Just remember everyone... where else but here will you get actual working copies of the entire Might & Magic series that work on XP, Vista and Windows 7? I looked for ten years. Finally got it here. The same can be said for most of the classic games here. If they're busy with Fallout 4 or Gears of War 5 or whatever... when will the get to the Wizardry series? Or Final Fantasy 7? Answer: they won't.
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talisman18: There are precious few places anywhere with retro games. Even fewer that are actually reliable. GOG is one of those. If they clog up their time and effort with getting the latest and greatest, when are they going to have the time, money and energy to restore these classics.
Ah but the latest and greatest games should require less work to get working reliably on new systems. With the new games it may just be a case of removing the DRM, still leaving plenty of time for resurrecting old games. I'm all for new games provided they don't come at the expense of old classics.
Post edited October 14, 2011 by deonast
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talisman18: There are precious few places anywhere with retro games. Even fewer that are actually reliable. GOG is one of those. If they clog up their time and effort with getting the latest and greatest, when are they going to have the time, money and energy to restore these classics.
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deonast: Ah but the latest and greatest games should require less work to get working reliably on new systems. With the new games it may just be a case of removing the DRM, still leaving plenty of time for resurrecting old games. I'm all for new games provided they don't come at the expense of old classics.
Agreed. Many people seem to think that new games mean no more old games. I'd love to see them add newer games while continuing to add older games as well. (and this is how I understood the question about ADDING newer games).

Additionally, these newer games, are depreciating in value, while I have money burning a hole in my pocket. In other words... Deus Ex, crysis, Thief4, skyrim, Dragon Age, Mass effect, dead island, Diablo 3, dungeon siege 3, Max Payne 3, etc. (some not yet released). I just named $500.00+ and I know I'm missing some games I've passed on due to DRM. These games are NOT available in retail form for me, but given the GoG treatment, it would be found money for them. Meanwhile, they can also add the classic games we all know and love.

If the games are DRM free, and given the general GoG treatment, we all win when the catalog grows. The only disagreement I see to adding newer games is from folks that want a place to shop for older games. There is no reason that ADDING newer games should take that away from anyone.

/my 2 cents.
Thank you for your reply GOG Marketer Guy, that was exactly the kind of answer I hoped for. I will be sure to enter my income as (the sum of Greece's gross national debt) and that I am interested in getting unsolicited email about things like Chineese "OEM" copies of MS office, long lost rich relatives from Nigeria who just needs to borrow some money right now, and any and all types of "male enhancement pills" out there (^_-)

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tetrahedron: Will the answers I enter in the survey be anonymized and who will have access to your users' answers? Age and income bracket are things that advertisers love to know about people online ...
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TheEnigmaticT: That's a good question. We may use the aggregate information ("our average customer is in x income bracket") when approaching partners to sign contracts, and we may even disclose some of the aggregate information publicly if we desire.

We will not share your personal data with anyone outside of the company, although we will be looking over the individual results internally here. We will certainly not say to someone "Hey, tetrahedron makes a bajillion dollars a year and is in your target age market, so here's all of his personal information and please feel free to spam him," or in any other way pass along any personally identifiable information to anyone.
I have supported GoG for close to as long as its been around, and have well over 100 games.
In addition to the classics, I would buy New titles as well even paying full price if it means no DRM, and extras. I hope to continue supporting GoG well into the future.

I agree that there is plenty of room for NEW and Classic old games on GoG and that having both is not a mutually exclusive option. Grow GoG to offer as many title as possible both new and old.

A comment was made about "Target Age Market" I seriously hope that this kind of silliness is not part of GoG's strategy, I think limiting ones targets by age is needlessly ignoring a vast amount of revenue. Market to gamers and you don't really have to worry about ages.
Post edited October 14, 2011 by immagikman
My biggest factor when buying games is in fact DRM. I hate it, I'm dead set against it and it's about time that publishers took notice.

For example the new Anno 2070 (I think) is being released by Ubisoft so no doubt they will use their constant online DRM crapware. Hence why I won't buy it.

If GoG can get the new Elder Scrolls DRM free I would easily pay $120USD for it. Yes it's $90USD elsewhere but if it means I don't have some draconic crapware to prove that yes the game I bought is legit which 9/10 times causes system instability within Windows then that extra $30 is worth not having that headache.
With the last question about new games to be released also in gog.com in the first day (like with The Witcher 2), I don't really care if there is a new fisrt-day release, because it's very likelly that my computer can't run the game...
I don't mind newer games, especially if the price is right, just remember your calling is older games first and foremost.

The main things I love about GOG.com are the prices and the fact that I can run them on a newer machine DRM free.

Just don't over complicate things, keep it simple, keep it cheap and you'll keep my business.
GOG needs to retain its identity!
So, I suggest only bringing relatively new games to GOG if they
A) are truly terrific and
B) failed in the market
A makes them Good and B makes them Old (as in, past their normal sales).
For example: something like Psychonauts. An unknown game to many, a gem to those who bought and played it.
Apart from those, releasing brand-new games should stay an exception. That also makes them more special and valuable to GOG.
Gah, I pressed enter by accident in the last part of the survey >_>

Anyway, what I was going to suggest about the pricing of the games, I think they should be similar to those offered by other services, like Steam, D2D, Gamersgate, etc. Being DRM-free, the games at GOG would be a lot more attractive compared to the other (possibly DRM'd) retailers offerings.
Posting newer games won't change the availability of older games, right? Just think of it as bonus content.
Why do you guys mention an RSS feed in the survey when you don't have one anymore?
I would like to see more games in other languages like german.
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browncoat1984: Why do you guys mention an RSS feed in the survey when you don't have one anymore?
They do have, it's here.