Hi, im asking if you (gog.com) makes the contact with the game producers, or if some of them come here to make a deal..
on a sidenote..
The game i would like to see the most in here, is Close Combat 1 by microsoft.. Has anyone contacted MS. Not really that i think it would help. even though its an old game, they probably wont give it to us anyway :)
sorry for the crappy spelling.

The elves in the GOG tubes run off to the publisher's building, and secretly pilfer the game code when nobody is looking and runs off back to GOG and sells the game. Then they use some weird mind control thing to make the publishers think they've actually given GOG permission.

Some publishers have thicker minds than others though, and so their thoughts take longer to penetrate. This is why we haven't yet seen LucasArts, EA, and Atari here.

Thats is what i thought :/
could be nice though if their answers were posted somewhere, so one could read up on which companies are against keep on selling their games, and so on..
But i know MS in kinda a no go :)

Microsoft wanted GOG to make their old games require Windows 7, which is against GOG's terms of service.

Thicker minds? Try concrete ;)

That's why I own a sledgehammer... if you know what I mean.

hmm, at least then they would work :/ cant understand why MS dont make them work themself.. they seem to have the means to do so..

I wasn't being serious. The bottom line is that none of us know what stage GOG are at with any unsigned publishers as GOG wouldn't want to breach confidentiality.
That said, Microsoft aren't interested in games unless they're used to sell their latest OS or if they're making money off of them as 360 titles. Making money just off the games themselves seems to be something Microsoft hasn't considered.

heh, i need to learn to read between the lines then :P maybe you had some insider knowledge, or it had been discussed before.. nevermind

Business deals aren't discussed with anyone outside that deal until it's all signed and sealed. Therefore if anyone did have some insider knowledge, they couldn't share it here.

On some level, yes. GOG could, for instance bear the "Compatible with Windows 7" logo. Or be a Microsoft partner. Although I'd imagine that many titles would need a fair bit more work to meet the criteria of something like Games for Windows.
But actually selling old Microsoft games would be another matter with another Microsoft department and one that's cutting back on any in house games development. It's something their focus is moving away from. So it doesn't seem all that likely.

I knew it!

In fact, I'm not sure any of us were really serious.
Mine was a pun to continue on the "GOG elves" reply: thick-headed = stupid.
And that's because none of us really knows what magic the GOG team weaves to get publisher executives to agree with their terms, only that nothing's said until a deal has been set in stone.

Elves? I always thought they were lawn gnomes, and disguised themselves as Expedia reps, and that's how they got in. Oh well, shows what I know. :D