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Posted September 16, 2013
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I am a collector of computer games for over 20 years now. And still I feel that my collection of thousands of games is a drop in the bucket. (Not to mention that I don't know when I should play all these games.) And now GOG - Good OLD Games! There are so many old games GOG offers that I still don't have or that GOG SHOULD offer, and why has GOG to host so much other games in addition? There are other sites like Desura which already handle these games.

Please GOG, concentrate on your primary aim! Or make those games cheaper so that I can afford more of them. I couldn't even take advantage of the promo for indie games that closed a few hours ago. That would have been another 20 bucks, besides all the other promos.

I am not speaking in the name of the big companies. It is the sheer MASS of these games, with permanently new ones, that I can't cope with any more. Why has to think everyone that he has to build and sell a computer game anyway? If the situation on the completely saturated game market would be different, then every game should ideally be an indie game. But as the situation is there are so many other old and new games!

Change the market, make abandonware freeware at last or something else! But at the moment I am financially worn down between buying old and new games.
Posted September 16, 2013
And that is your problem? Really? Get a life.
Posted September 16, 2013
The primary aim shifted from Good Old Games to DRM-free games a looooong time ago.
Posted September 16, 2013
Topic title is stupid. Develop some budgeting skills.
Posted September 16, 2013
Easy solution: If you don't like the games, don't buy them here.

I like most of the indie games and I'm glad that GOG started to sell them. And if you look at the sales charts, you can see that I'm not alone. Most of the indies sell better than the cassic games that were released around the same time (of course there are exceptions).

I think GOG should go on and release a nice mixture of classic, new and indie games.
Posted September 16, 2013
And to be honest, I wouldn't mind having AAA games here either, as long as they're DRM-free.
Posted September 16, 2013
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Indie games with cartoon graphics shovelware vs German simulation shovelware vs Hidden-object game shovelware

Which is worse and why, DISCUSS!!!
Posted September 16, 2013
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SpiRec: I am a collector of computer games for over 20 years now. And still I feel that my collection of thousands of games is a drop in the bucket. (Not to mention that I don't know when I should play all these games.) And now GOG - Good OLD Games! There are so many old games GOG offers that I still don't have or that GOG SHOULD offer, and why has GOG to host so much other games in addition? There are other sites like Desura which already handle these games.

Please GOG, concentrate on your primary aim! Or make those games cheaper so that I can afford more of them. I couldn't even take advantage of the promo for indie games that closed a few hours ago. That would have been another 20 bucks, besides all the other promos.

I am not speaking in the name of the big companies. It is the sheer MASS of these games, with permanently new ones, that I can't cope with any more. Why has to think everyone that he has to build and sell a computer game anyway? If the situation on the completely saturated game market would be different, then every game should ideally be an indie game. But as the situation is there are so many other old and new games!

Change the market, make abandonware freeware at last or something else! But at the moment I am financially worn down between buying old and new games.
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.
Posted September 16, 2013
Indie games were a shoe-in for GOG really. The Indie games market was already pretty much DRM-free on it's own, starting to sell them on GOG made perfect sense.

GOG still releases old game. It's just going to seem less and less like their focus, even if they keep the same pace. The more GOG manages to introduce indie games and 'newer' games to their catalogue, the less relevant the 'Old games' part of it will seem.

I'm sure in a few years there will be plenty of customers who don't even see GOG as a place for old games but simply for DRM-free games.
Posted September 16, 2013
All games eventually become old :p
Posted September 16, 2013
I seemed to have missed the part where the OP is being forced to buy these games. If I can't afford something, I DON'T GET IT!!! That's why I dive a Focus rather than a Porsche. Oh sure, I'd love a Porsche, but I can't afford it, so I don't buy one. Problem solved! :D
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.
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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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.
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Posted September 16, 2013
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I completely agree with the OP and I'm looking forward to him joining forces with me in my crusade against Amazon. They should stop selling everything and go back to being an online book retailer because at the moment I am financially worn down between buying old books and new books and everything (and their mother). It is the sheer MASS of shit, with new shit coming all the time, that I can't cope with anymore. At the very least they could make their shit cheaper so that I can buy more of it.
Posted September 16, 2013
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Crosmando: 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.
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.
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