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JohnnyDollar: snip
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JMich: For the last 18 months or so, GOG has released in average 1 game every 2 days. Ignoring half of those due to "No Interest" still leaves GOG with one release per 4 days (on average). Doubling the number of releases will get it to 1 game every day, or 1 game every 2 days if you ignore half of those.
So again, the number of releases is about right, and even though they could be more, doubling them would be overkill. Sure, they may not release games we want all the time, and I'd love to see newer AAA games here, but I won't complain that the number of releases is too low. The number of "X" releases may be too low, where X for me is AAA games, but the total number of releases is fine for me.
Get rid of your Steam account and then come back and tell me that. ;)
If you haven't bought a game in ages, then you didn't buy Summoner when GOG quite recently released it. In which case you're not watching the releases carefully enough as that is an excellent old school RPG (just remember that there's no auto-save, and that you die perhaps once in 4 hours).
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JohnnyDollar: Get rid of your Steam account and then come back and tell me that. ;)
Not sure I follow you. You mean that I should only count my GOG games for the "More than I can play", or can I also count the Bundle games? In either case, I still have more games than I can possibly play.
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JohnnyDollar: Get rid of your Steam account and then come back and tell me that. ;)
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JMich: Not sure I follow you. You mean that I should only count my GOG games for the "More than I can play", or can I also count the Bundle games? In either case, I still have more games than I can possibly play.
I'm not falling back on a client dependency such as Steam, which has a huge catalog, or accepting DRM in my games, to satiate my gaming interests, when I make the statement that I think that GOG should expand more rapidly.

I want those games here at GOG, DRM-free.

You may have more games then you can play, but that isn't the case for everyone. I would rather sift through some that I didn't like then limit everyone's choice because I had more games in my library than I can ever play.
Post edited May 30, 2014 by JohnnyDollar
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JohnnyDollar: I would rather sift through some that I didn't like then limit everyone's choice because I had more games in my library than I can ever play. That sounds selfish.
I do sift through a lot that don't interest me, yet I still find on average one game per week here on GOG that I like. Most of those games take me longer than a week to beat, which means my pile of unplayed games increases. If GOG released more games, and assuming they kept the same ratio of games I'm interested in to games I'm not interested in, my pile would increase at a much larger speed.
So, I don't think they should increase their release schedule, but I do think they should vary it more. Which they do, but in a larger time frame (months) and not a shorter one (weeks).
Now, if the complaint is that you want game X, and game X only to be released on GOG, and you assume that if they release games more often, game X would appear sooner, I do doubt that is the case.

And out of curiosity, out of the 87 games released on GOG so far in 2014, what's the combined playtime of those that do interest you?
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JMich: Now, if the complaint is that you want game X, and game X only to be released on GOG, and you assume that if they release games more often, game X would appear sooner, I do doubt that is the case.
Well, X being in large part a bunch of well known titles that they haven't managed to get here, for whatever reason. I would prefer not to see them release more indies than what we see now, as far as that goes.

I wonder why it took so long for SimCity 4. I think GG has it DRM-free, but I don't know for how long that's been. GOG have had EA for a couple of years now, I think.
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JMich: And out of curiosity, out of the 87 games released on GOG so far in 2014, what's the combined playtime of those that do interest you?
I've put some hours into the STALKER series, especially SoC. That's about the only significant play time that I've put in with 2014 releases.
The last time I bought a game on GOG was over a month ago. That was separated from the one before that by over two months. I'm clearly buying fewer games on GOG than I used to.

That said, I'm buying fewer games everywhere else as well. With such an enormous backlog of games that I actually want to play, it's easier to say no to games that I might or might not play at some point, particularly because I can be certain that they will be discounted again at some point (possibly with a lower base price as well).
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JohnnyDollar: Well, X being in large part a bunch of well known titles that they haven't managed to get here, for whatever reason. I would prefer not to see them release more indies than what we see now, as far as that goes.
And other people would prefer if X are indies, others would prefer if X are AAA, others would prefer if X are pre-95 games, others would prefer if X are RPGs, others would prefer a mix of those.
I would love for them to be offering all of those, in a rotation, but not all of those at once. So still 2-5 games per week, maybe up to 4-7, but not 10-15 games per week, to appease everyone.
And while having a week with a new publisher, thus bringing that week's releases to 30 is lovely, I'd rather have that once or twice a year, not every week.
Paper Sorcerer, Bad Mojo, Blackwell Epiphany, Tesla Effect, Sir You Are Being Hunted... there are still good stuff coming out. Though we're a far cry from the Wizardry event or, more recently, the Harverster - Rex Nebular - Sword of the Samurai hat-trick.
I don't care, my physical collection & digital backlog are keeping me warm & content.
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JMich: So still 2-5 games per week, maybe up to 4-7, but not 10-15 games per week, to appease everyone.
And while having a week with a new publisher, thus bringing that week's releases to 30 is lovely, I'd rather have that once or twice a year, not every week.
We'll just have to see what their growth looks like. :)
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Licurg: BUY SACRIFICE !!!
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Charon121: I must admit, the more I see this, the more my indifference towards that game is weakening. It migh just be that one of these days I'll give in and BUY SACRIFICE !!! :)
Let that that be TODAY !
Buy Deus Ex. You'll never be bored again.

I'm on playthrough 90-ish. Still love it.
Post edited May 30, 2014 by AdamR
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Charon121: I must admit, the more I see this, the more my indifference towards that game is weakening. It migh just be that one of these days I'll give in and BUY SACRIFICE !!! :)
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Licurg: Let that that be TODAY !
A bit too steep of a price for me right now, but I'll tell you what – I'll wishlist it right away and buy it as soon as it goes on promo.
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AdamR: Buy Deus Ex. You'll never be bored again.

I'm on playthrough 90-ish. Still love it.
That brings up a question that's been rattling around in my head for some time.
Are there are a lot of gamers who just install a game, beat it as fast as they can and then move on?
I've heard some people say they've been playing Baldur's for over 10 years and still aren't done with it!
And now AdamR is on playthrough 90+ of Deus Ex.

I own well over 300 games, enough to keep my great grandchildren supplied for life, if games are played until every bit of them is completed how many new releases can a person possibly need to stay supplied? ;-)

Edit: Spelling
Post edited May 30, 2014 by donsanderson
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goodrobbo: What gives? Do you agree that GoG's catalogue has grown stale, once you take away the must-buys?
Sure thing. Let's say must-buys make up 3/4 of Gog's catalogue. Booooring... ;)