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This is my favourite topic
Posted October 02, 2008
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deathkitten: 1. More titles available = more titles sold
2. "Commercial viability" really means nothing when it's a web download, there's little to no overheads, assuming they work on a percentage of royalties given to developers or whatever instead of a lump sum to be allowed to sell it
3. "underdogs" can sell well if they were more available and more widely known about, that's the thing! In the UK in particular it was hard to buy full versions of shareware games because almost invariably the little screen after exiting would be telling you to phone some number in America, something your parents would say "no way" to :)
I never got to play the full version of doom because of that!
OK i was like 5 but x-D

Yes, I see your points, but I should elaborate on my thoughts regarding this as well.
1. More titles=more sold
In the extreme example, if GOG were to make all games available by the end of the year, that would be the best-case scenario. But that's probably not going to happen, given how difficult it is to for GOG to obtain rights for these games thus far.
2. Commercial viability
This ties in to the above idea...the holders of the rights of these games would be better convinced to release their games DRM-free if they see that GOG is selling a worthwhile number of copies. Sure there are publishers that don't mind distributing their old games (some of them have released them for free, such as Star Control 2), but the games that everyone remembers but can't get could be a problem to release.
3. Underdogs can sell well if more available and known about.
Absolutely true. There are websites that promote awareness of underdog titles (I won't post them here, but just try a google search), and I really like what they're doing. GOG would be great if they had a substantial number of such titles, but the voting system is trying to see what games would sell right away off the bat.
Hopefully in the future, there might be a wishlist of popular underdog titles to choose from.
I hope you actually got a chance to try Doom. It's on Steam, in case you're still looking!
Post edited October 02, 2008 by Skrig
Posted October 02, 2008
Now, I wondered if some games will be deleted due for them to be on shelves (Spore anyone?).
And the idea to sort them by number of votes would be great.
What kind of games did you add? I added and voted for games that were either:
- Really hard to find (Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga)
- Really hard to run on modern systems (The Elder Scrolls Adventures : Redguard)
- Titles that completely disappeared from the shelves, but were masterpieces (Thief, System Shock 2).
These were my criterias.
Posted October 02, 2008
It biggest problem with games still on the shelves is, that there would be no chance in hell that GOG could offer them for 10 bucks (even IF they could aquire a licence, which is very doubtful for newer games)
Posted October 02, 2008
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AND SPORE only got released last month. WTF are people thinking? This site is called GOG, not GNG.
Post edited October 02, 2008 by Jagji56
Posted October 02, 2008
Only put the "add game" button at the end of the search results... so people HAVE TO search before they add a game.
And then show similar games (like an auto search) when confirming adding a game . that would get rid of a lot of duplicates (though its probably already too late).
Having some "recently voted" and "random" ones show up would be useful... i sometimes can't think of some games.. but then i see them suggested and think "how did i forget that one!"
Having "developer/publisher" info would be useful... as would "year".
Don't see any harm in having new games.. they'll be old someday.. ;-)
Post edited October 02, 2008 by soulgrindr
Posted October 02, 2008
Plus: Please stop voting for Interstate '82. All 15 of you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves!! ;-)
[edit] Er.. i just realised people have added and voted for Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout: Tactics and Sacrifice.... are people kidding... or just mass copy and pasting lists of old games?
Post edited October 02, 2008 by soulgrindr
Posted October 02, 2008
Excellent idea, glad to see so many votes going to worthy titles!
Posted October 02, 2008
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Firek: The wish list should be able to find typos while the user adds a game. For now we "manually" fix duplicates which we notice while merrily watching the wish list prosper. ;) If the "duplicate" is an alternate name (like Enemy Unknown / UFO Defense) we add it to the "primary" name in brackets. Though it's hard to judge whether an American or European version or whatever is the "primary one". :)
We will add some helpful tools in the future to make the process quicker and easier if the duplicate problem goes out of hand.

Wow, you guys are freaking GOOD.
Posted October 02, 2008
brilliant feature !
Posted October 02, 2008
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Guys, it's just a list... All this talk about duplicates, games that aren't on PC, games that aren't old, etc. -- that's what the voting is for. Ridiculous games won't get votes, so it doesn't matter.
Posted October 02, 2008
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bpops: Guys, it's just a list... All this talk about duplicates, games that aren't on PC, games that aren't old, etc. -- that's what the voting is for. Ridiculous games won't get votes, so it doesn't matter.

Games that aren't on PC, can be ported to PC by emulation. Also, I vote for EVERY GAME.
Because I think Every game deserves a chance.
Posted October 02, 2008
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There is currently no emulator for XBox or PS3 available, nore would i see the possibility in the near future. I'm sorry but suggesting or voting for those games is a waste of time :/
Also voting on all games makes your own votes kinda void. You could just as well vote none.
And while many games deserve to get to GOG, the point of this list is to find the few the GOG team should put their efforts in aquiring. I rather have them work 4 weeks to get System Shock II than 10 mediocre games noone ever heard of.
Posted October 02, 2008
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bpops: Guys, it's just a list... All this talk about duplicates, games that aren't on PC, games that aren't old, etc. -- that's what the voting is for. Ridiculous games won't get votes, so it doesn't matter.
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Weclock: Games that aren't on PC, can be ported to PC by emulation. Also, I vote for EVERY GAME.
Because I think Every game deserves a chance.

I don't get it. If you vote for every single one of these games, what is the point of voting anyway ? You don't give every game its chance since they all have the same exact amount of votes + 1 than before! ;)
Post edited October 02, 2008 by Patakreps
Posted October 02, 2008
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mystral: A feature to suggest removing from the list those games that don't have a snowball's chance in hell of being found here would be nice too. (like the original Colonization, at least not right after Firaxis publishes a remake lol, or very recent games like Crysis and Mass Effect.)

The original Colonization is free on the new PC Gamer CD. I've been playing it for a few weeks now.
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Jagji56: So, with a few free games on the list, maybe GOG should have a Free Games section??

Excellent idea! If people had a place to come and look for free games, they might also browse the other games and buy a few.
Posted October 02, 2008
I noticed that at the moment of writing this commentary, Star Control 2 has 46 votes.
It's a great game, but it is also available for download - completely free! SC2 sources have been released to the community, and enhanced version along with a few mods is now at http://sc2.sourceforge.net/. What isn't available, are old intro and outro movies and game's name - since it is copyrighted by 3DO. Still, I had much fun playing Ur-Quan Masters, as it is called now.
Dunno how many SC2 fans will reach this post ;)
Post edited October 02, 2008 by Thar
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