Wired.co.uk posted an interview with Guillaume Rambourg, Managing Director of GOG.com. It's an interesting read and shows why GOG.com is awesome.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/31/gog-qa

I really want to see that "Anti-Sale" here on GOG in 2014

True. Though the sparse nature of GOG releases kinda remedies those effects sales have on people's libraries :).

Interesting read, thanks!

Of course, more a good PR opportunity for GOG than a critical interview, but since I appreciate almost everything they do and stand for, I don't mind. ;) I just hope these planned website changes will actually improve things this time around, instead of ignoring the essential stuff and making the interface less attractive ...

Anyway, the anti-sale idea is a good inspiration for a worthy New Year's resolution. :D

I so want to see the anti-sale become an actual thing.

What's up with hoarding hundreds of unplayed games just because they're cheap? My ~20 game backlog (of games I really, genuinely, actually want to play) already seems like more than two handsful and I have skipped a couple of the recent bundles and sales offers for precisely that reason. No need buying everything now, the discounts will come around again in the spring sale. And in the summer sale. And in the Halloween sale. And in the christmas sale. And in bundles X, Y and Z. And and and...

That'll be an opportunity to roll out some of the proposals from the wishlist in bulk. A site feature: you request a purchasing hiatus from GOG.com and they'll actually block your ability to click the Buy button :)

I don't see any reason to be optimistic about DRM-free gaming. The DRM situation on PC is getting worse, not better. Yes, the demand for DRM-free has grown, but the demand for Steam has grown a hell of a lot faster.

I did a quick scan for my name, didn't see it, stopped reading. :P

Good stuff. I kind of agree with him, we've been spoiled with all the good sales over the past few years.

I'm surprised nobody got that idea so far, but the Anti-Sale-Day (150% of the regular price) would perfectly fit for the LucasArts release day, so... LucsArts confirmed!

Nice he mentioned music sales, which indeed got a big bump after removing the drm. The problem here is that it was necessary back in the days to use your music on your devices/mobile, also the low pricing of digital music was very helpful. Personally I still buy my music, but while more and more Smartphones and Tablets (mostly Android and iOS) are being used for music listening, streaming services with a monthly flat rate (Spotify) are getting more and more popular, which in fact are using drm (a client or app is necessary for 30 days offline-mode). So yes, in first place drm-free was a success for music, because it was absolutely necessary, but in the future I would be very careful to use it still as an example for the drm-free revolution.

Are you kidding me? Didn't you decipher the code:

They wrote "to paying for games" which if you rearrange the letters gives you "o tinyE pag for gams"!

They also left more messages for you.

Good interview. Thanks for linking it. I really hope some more publishers, especially the suits at the top, will stop clinging on to DRM, and realize that it doesn't boost their bottom line profits at all.

Perhaps 'revolution' is too strong of a term, but it's a trend nonetheless. It remains to be seen whether it'll go mainstream and be successful. Frankly, I'm not convinced of that happening any time soon. Who does even care about having DRM in products or not? Publishers do (apparently). And consumers? I don't have any data on that one.

My mistake, didn't find it while searching before posting. Crap indeed.