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Posted September 16, 2013
Yeah, OP needs to get over his purchasing OCD, however, it does seem that GOG's old game release schedule is a little slower than it needs to be sometimes, the recent Atari auction revealed that they seemed to have the rights to Slave Zero and BloodNET ready to go before they fell over, went boom and now GOG has potentially missed its chance to get them on here
Unless there were technical issues getting these 2 to run, I'm sure enough other people wanted them to make it worthwhile...
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Crosmando: I think it's pretty obvious what GOG customers want; check out the best sellers list.

Also, the old line about "running out of games" is getting a bit tired too.

For example check this out, these are all old DOS games I have on my computer (these don't include old Windows games or DOS games on my D-Fend list), all of these aren't on GOG and in my opinion deserve to be.
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JudasIscariot: Brofist for Superhero League of Hoboken :)
Seems that either the 'Legends' games rights went to Frixis/Take 2 or Atari just plain lost them, although I think quite a few were licensed like Calhoon's Crosstime Saloon, maybe I should go prod Night Dive on Facebook about them...
Post edited September 16, 2013 by Fever_Discordia
Posted September 16, 2013
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Crosmando: I think it's pretty obvious what GOG customers want; check out the best sellers list.

Also, the old line about "running out of games" is getting a bit tired too.

For example check this out, these are all old DOS games I have on my computer (these don't include old Windows games or DOS games on my D-Fend list), all of these aren't on GOG and in my opinion deserve to be.
As one of the people who was working (no time currently) on the looking for the rights of old games-thread I can tell you that for many of those games it is near impossible to get the rights to publish them again.
And of course there seem to be publishes who apparently don't want to work with GOG. :-(

That said I would LOVE to see Dark Sun (I still have it on CD) on here but getting all the necessary rights together for that... I fear it won't happen although I will continue to hope.

I'm very happy with many of the Indie games, I enjoy them and at the same time I will wait patiently for more old games to come. They will come. Maybe not as quickly as I would like in many cases but I can wait.
Post edited September 16, 2013 by Piranjade
Posted September 16, 2013
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Wishbone: And of course you know who owns the rights to each of those games, and you happen to know that all of them are willing to have GOG.com sell them, right? Because otherwise, I'm afraid you're just talking out of your ass.
I'm not talking about the rights persay, just pointing out that there's still a lot of good old games out there, no need to be hostile.

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JudasIscariot: Brofist for Superhero League of Hoboken :)
I haven't started or finished it tbh, I'll get around it to eventually. I did like the Gateway games by the same developer and it has the same interface, but I find it hard to get in the right mindset/patience to play text/graphic adventure games nowadays.
Post edited September 16, 2013 by Crosmando
Posted September 16, 2013
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simon_vd: And that is your problem? Really? Get a life.
I wonder if a person who replies in a thread that doesn't concern him has a life.

btw. have you guys seen the newest Breaking Bad episode? It's amazing.
Posted September 16, 2013
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simon_vd: And that is your problem? Really? Get a life.
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keeveek: I wonder if a person who replies in a thread that doesn't concern him has a life.

btw. have you guys seen the newest Breaking Bad episode? It's amazing.
Actually it concerns me a lot. Indies are the only thing that I have bought lately...
Posted September 16, 2013
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simon_vd: And that is your problem? Really? Get a life.
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keeveek: I wonder if a person who replies in a thread that doesn't concern him has a life.

btw. have you guys seen the newest Breaking Bad episode? It's amazing.
Are they making a game of that? The other day on Gamespot they had banners for "Breaking Bad" but all the characters were shown as 'video game characters'.
Posted September 16, 2013
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PaterAlf: I think GOG should go on and release a nice mixture of classic, new and indie games.
Yes please.
Posted September 16, 2013
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Piranjade: As one of the people who was working (no time currently) on the looking for the rights of old games-thread I can tell you that for many of those games it is near impossible to get the rights to publish them again.
We don't know that, really. GOG could be close to licensing any title and we wouldn't know it.

That said I would LOVE to see Dark Sun (I still have it on CD) on here but getting all the necessary rights together for that... I fear it won't happen although I will continue to hope.
Nah, if SS2 and Wizardry prove anything, it's that if demand is high enough, it will happen, licensing Wizardry from the Japanese was the last thing I think I'd see happen.

I'm very happy with many of the Indie games, I enjoy them and at the same time I will wait patiently for more old games to come. They will come. Maybe not as quickly as I would like in many cases but I can wait.
What annoys me a bit about the indie scene currently is that the actual "complex" titles, games with a "normal" artistic style, games that don't fit into the cartoon-y block-y artsy paradigm of what "indie" means, they are essentially completely ignored by the "mainstream" of indie devs and community. They don't look like FEZ or Minecraft so they aren't recognized by their peers. It's incorrect to say indie is all about equality and going against the publishers, because the indie "community" has itself formed a tight hierarchy.

For example awesome indie games like:
http://underrail.com/
http://bluebottlegames.com/main/node/2
http://www.illwinter.com/dom4/
http://www.illwinter.com/coe3/
http://wingedpixel.com/heroes-of-a-broken-land/

Get ignored because they aren't cartoony platformers
Post edited September 16, 2013 by Crosmando
Posted September 16, 2013
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I have a plea to the world at large: No more choices, please! My life would be so much easier and less confusing without this overwhelming need to make decisions, compromise, select and set priorities all the time.
Posted September 16, 2013
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Leroux: I have a plea to the world at large: No more choices, please! My life would be so much easier and less confusing without this overwhelming need to make decisions, compromise, select and set priorities all the time.
Sounds like the design philosophy of Bioware
Posted September 16, 2013
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Leroux: I have a plea to the world at large: No more choices, please! My life would be so much easier and less confusing without this overwhelming need to make decisions, compromise, select and set priorities all the time.
Everyone +1 this post or I will be forced to wave my private parts at your aunties.
Posted September 16, 2013
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tinyE: I will be forced to wave my private parts at your aunties.
I'm sure at least some of my aunts would appreciate it. Others would perhaps beat you to near death. Either way, it's no concern of mine.
Posted September 16, 2013
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Leroux: I have a plea to the world at large: No more choices, please! My life would be so much easier and less confusing without this overwhelming need to make decisions, compromise, select and set priorities all the time.
:Geralt mode:

"If I were to choose between one 2d indie platformer and another. I'd rather choose none"

:geralt mode off:
Posted September 16, 2013
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Tallima: As others more or less said, the tone of your post asks for trolling. But I'll do my best to answer on behalf of GOG (they can, of course, respond if they so choose -- but I think my data is accurate).

GOG is committed to old games. Their teams of peeps still focus on old games and they still release just as many, if not more, old games than they used to.

However, old games is a well with a limited amount of water and GOG has drawn up all the easy-to-get water already. So there is a large challenge for them to get more water from that well.

Their response was to hire a bunch more people and to look at indie games and other developers who may want to join them in their DRM-free revolution. That way, GOG can still make an income using the indie market so that they can fund their old-game-rights/permission hunting.

There are many employees in GOG whose sole focus are old games -- probably more today than 4 years ago. But their larger team now has other work to accomplish as well.

So you, as a consumer, have a choice: buy or not buy. If there are no titles that interest you, then look at the GOG wishlist and vote. And hopefully one day some of those titles will become available.
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Crosmando: I think it's pretty obvious what GOG customers want; check out the best sellers list.

Also, the old line about "running out of games" is getting a bit tired too.

For example check this out, these are all old DOS games I have on my computer (these don't include old Windows games or DOS games on my D-Fend list), all of these aren't on GOG and in my opinion deserve to be.
*cough* oldgames.sk? ;) Nice list though, especially all the gold box games. And special thumbs up for Birthright and Reunion :)
Posted September 16, 2013
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hunvagy: *cough* oldgames.sk? ;) Nice list though, especially all the gold box games. And special thumbs up for Birthright and Reunion :)
Oldgames.sk is awesome :) best not speak of them further though or I might get banned

And yes Birthright is amazing, one of the few examples of a genre-bender game done right
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