Well, he did on the 1st of April, but not during the hype, afaik.


On the 1st of April he said that we wouldn't believe what big publisher they just signed, so he thougt about annoucing it as an April Fool's joke.

During the "hype" he told us about "new wave of games coming". We connected those two things, and hence the overhyping

I most certainly was not disappointed. For starters, we got a trio of classics (Alone in the Dark) for the lowest price point, and there will essentially be 2 releases each week for the next several weeks, leading up to an absolutely loaded digital copy of The Witcher for a ridiculous $5 promo price. What many people seem to forget is that Atari is still a huge publisher with a ton of games, so we're just getting more of those for the immediate future.

The fact that GOG confirmed that they've signed one of the big 5 is absolutely huge. And what was it, 25 games that they're working on!?! How could anyone be disappointed with that news!

Me neither.
Anyway, they revealed much more about the future plans than they usually do... I'm pleased with that.

Using your example of the police line thing, did that lead to a big reveal at a heavily advertised, streamed online press conference? No, it led to a normal blog post announcement of a new game, just like any other Tuesday or Thursday. This is the problem with the current hype; it was overhyped by GOG from the very first "CDP Days" post they put up and they allowed us to keep running with it, knowing full well that nothing in that event was "press conference worthy" news. It was like seeing them reading the normal Thursday blog posts in person. It's almost reaching a "boy who cried wolf" stage here, where when they do have something big to announce, no one is going to believe that they really have anything of substance to show. We'll be thinking "What will it be this time, support for animated avatars to the forums?" or something equally yawn inducing.

...and that's when they announce EA.

Exactly. They want publicity (because that increases sales, and increased sales bring them new publishers), and they get more publicity if it's unexpected.

Anyway, you (cogadh) are right, there was no conference after "Police Line", but the difference is, that now they announced new big publisher is coming (already signed) and two more (out of 5) they hope to sign until summer.

Plus they announced new website/forum features.

They added some basic website features (or more correctly, will be adding, which we've known they were going to eventually do for years now) and made an announcement of an upcoming announcement. How was that worthy of press conference time? What made any of that so special that it deserved anything more than the normal Thursday blog post? Nothing, in my estimation.
Yes, but they'll just put that in a blog post, since apparently only non-important stuff comes in press conference form.

We're upset because we care. We like to be able to play old games again DRM free for a low price.

It's like having a friend that usually is fun but occasionally behaves like a total ass.

Yes but Gog is NOT your friend....Gog is an internet DD site. :p

People here have to learn to not want everything at once or so fast...as I said before the sense of self entitlement(and wanting things done at the rate they want or the way they want or they get upset about it) is astonishing.

Not sure I entirely agree GameRager. I mean we don't owe GOG a thing, they owe us. We are the customers paying the money to keep their business going, it's not like they woke up one day and said let's help the poor game starved people of the world and start providing them with good old cheap games. In a way they need to listen to the complaints of their customers and make sure they stay in tune otherwise they may start losing them. I've already noticed a few posts of people saying if you want LA, go get it at Steam, potentially losing those customers who would have bought it here. Sure Steam is not ideal, but it's not as bad as what people make out. Over the last 48 hours they have had almost 2,000000 users online.

Again, I'm not punting Steam, I haven't even bought one game there yet, but just pointing out that if somebody buys one game there and finds it convenient, then the customer is lost to GOG.

I think everyone is getting too riled up about this. Gog has already succeeded in doing what they want to do; Keep you on the website as much as possible. Chances are, sales are already pretty big with the current release. When everything from the current list is released, they will be finished with signing for and fixing the mystery games. Bam! now everyone is buying from the new list of games. I think this may have been their master plan all this time! Keeping yall on the website. Aren't these kinda things exciting anyways? I'm one of the people who are happy about the mystery publisher coming soon.

Again, Gog is not your friend. As long as they keep most of the current customers happy and get alot of new ones i'm sure they'll be happy...even if a few malcontents leave. Now i'm not saying they should never listen to the customer or that they never have, just that again...they are not friend, more like business associates.

Don't kid yourself. No one owes anyone anything besides an agreed upon transaction which is meant to benefit both the customer and the business (and the shareholder, if applicable). Customers have to keep from becoming too entitled and bitchy and critical, and businesses have to keep from becoming too greedy and careless and ignoring the customers (especially when the customers en masse are bitching, but still buying the products).

It's a balance, and it's symbiotic. Both sides have to keep from fucking it up. But no one owes anyone anything except the transaction and the service; you can say "well they'll go out of business if they don't do exactly what I want", which is just as true as "you'll lose a great service if they go out of business". You're the customer paying to keep them in business as much as they're the business keeping a product or service available.

True except, I don't rely on GOG alone for my gaming satisfaction, there are other sites out there that offer similar if not the same services. DRM or DRM free doesn't bother me as much as other people, I mean Games For Windows Live is the same thing really as Steam.

GOG can see how many people are craving for LA & EA games, yet they don't provide any solid info about "if, when or where". Personally, if I were GOG, I would secure LA & EA as fast as I can, release a handful of games for download at once and make an absolute KILLING on sales. Some people say that they won't do this cause they want people to come back, but why wouldn't people return to the site, I mean you would have a lot of satisfied customers and all would remain to get the other games they wanted too. Problem now, is people are getting bored and frustrated of waiting and hearing no news except of the cryptic kind, and thus may find other ways of obtaining the games, perhaps even illegal downloading.

Oh, and just btw, if GOG shut down, I wouldn't be crying anytime soon as there are other companies out there as I've just mentioned, and anyway the gap in the market would be filled by somebody else. It's simple business really....

I'm only loyal to the business that gives me the service I want. In fact I have been tempted on many occasion to buy "The Dig" from Steam, simply to test out if Steam is ok to us. Only reason I haven't yet is cause I have about 25 games (hard copies and digital) the I still need to get through.