So I hadn't paid a great deal of attention to this whole kickstarter thing, until Obsidian's Eternity popped up yesterday. It got me thinking in a different way about how the masses can motivate companies to produce just the games we want. Which lead me to thinking of a different angle to this. What if we could persuade GOG to release the games we really want the most, and help them to sway companies to let them do so? Now hear me out, this may be a pipe dream, but it might not have to be.
This is what I thought:
What if GOG set up something similar to kickstarter, only giving us a chance to make pledges to games that are already out that we want on GOG. Say we want Civilization 2 here, and so a large number of GOG'ers show GOG and the company that holds it's rights that there is a high demand, and they will get money right away for it too. This way GOG can work on releasing the games that are most sought out by it's customers, with guaranteed money if they deliver in a certain amount of time.
I realize that some games take a lot more effort to get working on today's systems, so the pledge "drive" can be a success once GOG secures the rights (though of course they won't charge us for the game till it's out).
I'm not sure, but, I think if all of a sudden 5,000 (or more) of us said and pledged we would buy say Warcraft 2 if it came here today that this would give GOG better bargaining power to sign big companies who aren't here yet like Lucas Arts, Blizzard, and Microsoft.
Now as customers there is nothing we can do to make this happen here, but, if you think this is a good idea and/or would like to add some of your own ideas to it, maybe GOG can think about implementing something like it and see if it works. I think it's worth a shot, and it will bring even more involvement from the community and increase interest in what GOG has and may soon be offering. Any thoughts? Have I gone mad? Or is this some cool beans?

EDIT to clear up some questions and confusions:
1: We would not pay for the game until it was released on GOG.
2: The pledge would have a time limit and we could always withdraw our pledges whenever it pleases us before the game is released.
3: This is in no way a solid plan, just a start of an idea I had to, I think, improve GOG for us and them. So expect rough edges and maybe a little fuzziness too.
4: Yes, I know there is a wishlist. ;-p
5: And yes, I know this has a chance of happening about as big as Mr. T's navel.
EDIT2 to add another Idea I had:
To make this a more attractive prospect for all of us, (if) GOG could somehow get an agreement with the game company as to how many pledges must be made for the game to be sold here, that would really make this work better I think. For all of us to know the exact number of pledges to bring a game here, would add interest and excitement to the prospect of getting our favorite games on GOG.

Another Idea: Perhaps we could be able to vote on games for GOG to specifically go after (for the "Pledge Challenge" lets call it) as well as them bringing their own. Let's say it takes a few thousand votes to start a Pledge Challenge by ourselves, so were not flooded with them. And these challenges, unlike GOG's, won't have a number-of-units-sold goal (see above idea), but, will be an attempt to convince the publishers to sell here. If by the end of the pledge not enough have pledged to tempt the game owners to sell here, then the pledges would be void and nobody could start a new pledge on that game for a year or so. As always I'm just adding possibilities, not setting anything in stone. My idea juices are just flowing, and I'm going with the flow. :)

And Another Smaller Idea: We customers would be able to pledge any amount we want to the drive. Meaning, if there is a game you really want on GOG and have money burning in your pocket, you could pledge five copies of it just to try to get it here, and then gift the extra copies to your friends/fellow GOGer's if it does make it here.