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Posted May 21, 2014
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Sachys: see above!
Haha...I didn't see that before, great minds and all that. ;)
Posted May 21, 2014
I'm serious. :D
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/girlfriend_construction_set
Posted May 21, 2014
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tinyE: I'm serious. :D
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/girlfriend_construction_set
*points at deflated girlfriend of tinyE

SOME THINGS DO NOT WORK DIGITALLY!
Posted May 21, 2014
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tinyE: I'm serious. :D
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/girlfriend_construction_set
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Sachys: *points at deflated girlfriend of tinyE

SOME THINGS DO NOT WORK DIGITALLY!
Does that count as domestic violence?
Posted May 21, 2014
I don't know what you expect them to do. If they're not releasing classic, widely-requested games like Blood Omen, it's not because they just don't feel like it. It was always inevitable that as they released the games that weren't tied up in legal knots and made publishing deals with publishers who were willing to make deals with them, that they'd eventually hit a dry spell.
Posted May 21, 2014
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Sachys: *points at deflated girlfriend of tinyE

SOME THINGS DO NOT WORK DIGITALLY!
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pimpmonkey2382: Does that count as domestic violence?
depends on whether he got a refund for it "going down" on him or not!
Posted May 21, 2014
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tinyE: I'm serious. :D
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/girlfriend_construction_set
I have reason to believe there is some human trafficking going on here, check this out:
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Posted May 21, 2014
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moonshineshadow: What I always think about when there is a discussion about gog releasing more old games is, what is old? 5 years? 10 years? 15 years?
I am all in for the idea that gog releases more old games, but perhaps a game someone considers as old is considered as newer game by someone else.
Good point. To me 2000 is still what I see as the cut off date between "old" and "new", but a lot of post-2000 stuff is getting pretty "old" now too I suppose.
Posted May 21, 2014
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tfishell: (which I didn't appreciate at the time because I wasn't thinking in the context of the wishlist, but looking now at how high up it is I'm very glad GOG was able to bring it)
I'm certainly not privy to, and am totally ignorant of, many years of history here on GOG, but I am very curious about your opinions on the wishlist. In many posts - at least over the last 3 months - it seems to me like you value the wishlist above all.

I personally see it as highly imperfect at best. It's a great place for us to vent our desires to play the games we loved or never had the chance to love. It seems like a great place for GOG staff to use to guide their hands. But when I see something like Diablo III with more wishlist votes than either Sword of the Samurai or F117A, both recent releases that are in my opinion PERFECT for this site, I don't necessarily think that should be of primary concern for GOG. And I'm glad - and assume the community is glad - they released them despite having votes in the low hundreds.

One of my personal favorites as a child, a game from Lucas (Lucas!), has 15 votes...

On a related note, do people out there think GOG have, but are choosing to not release, some of the classics we desire so much? Or think they are not pursuing these games to the best of their ability? I think signing some of this stuff would ensure long-term survival. And long term survival might actually require it. Are they really not trying as hard as they can?

I'm surely missing a load of context, but would definitely love to hear your take. Pardon the aforementioned ignorance. :)
Posted May 21, 2014
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WarlockLord: Good point. To me 2000 is still what I see as the cut off date between "old" and "new", but a lot of post-2000 stuff is getting pretty "old" now too I suppose.
Out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm 26 and consider ~2005 to be the cutoff point for old, but I'm trying to change my expectations to around 2008 considering that is 6 years ago now.

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tfishell: (which I didn't appreciate at the time because I wasn't thinking in the context of the wishlist, but looking now at how high up it is I'm very glad GOG was able to bring it)
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budejovice: I'm certainly not privy to, and am totally ignorant of, many years of history here on GOG, but I am very curious about your opinions on the wishlist. In many posts - at least over the last 3 months - it seems to me like you value the wishlist above all.
You're right. For a bit of context, I and a few other people started, around Aug. 2013, trying to help bring some classics to GOG - http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_search_for_game_rights_a_diaryesque_thread. (Our efforts have kind of "died down" or continued more behind the scenes.)

I had found several good old games I thought GOG should consider bringing, but they were rejected mainly, I believe, because of too few wishlist votes (IE, they were unknown titles), so the staff thought they wouldn't sell well. (They have to prioritize their efforts.) So the focus became on games that seemed to have at least a hundred or more wishlist votes, and that has transferred over into what I prefer to see on GOG and what I feel I can actually "rally" behind.

Also, I really started paying attention to GOG around June 2011 when EA came aboard, and discovered all sorts of games I had never heard of before and that weren't available on any other dd sites. (Crusader: No Remorse sticks out in my head.) Because GOG were providing interesting stuff I had never heard of before, I was quite interested and stuck around, and kind of latched on.

I mean I guess I could try to rally behind all the indie games coming in, but honestly I feel the dev could easily release them DRM-free on their own site, and most likely the games are DRM-free on Steam anyway, so there's not much to interest me there. My hope is that in the coming years, for all the games with at least 100 wishlist votes (a relatively ambiguous threshold), more entries will be marked as "completed" than just "Active 1 hr ago" and such.

I have been more complain-y today than I usually am (or I think I usually am). (I think it might have something to do with my meds, or lack thereof.)
Post edited May 21, 2014 by tfishell
Posted May 21, 2014
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NoNewTaleToTell: The earliest release date from any of those games is Sword of the Samurai, which was released in 1989...hardly an "old" game. Come on GOG, either release Pong or change your name to "Good New-ish Games"!
Pong!? Please. Spacewar. Then we can move forwards to these modern titles you want.
Posted May 21, 2014
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WarlockLord: Good point. To me 2000 is still what I see as the cut off date between "old" and "new", but a lot of post-2000 stuff is getting pretty "old" now too I suppose.
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tfishell: Out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm 26 and consider ~2005 to be the cutoff point for old, but I'm trying to change my expectations to around 2008 considering that is 6 years ago now.
I know you were asking WarlockLord, but I'm 42 and consider old games anything to be before 2000 too, although maybe we should start calling them "classics" instead of old, and say anything from 2000-2007 to be "old"
Posted May 21, 2014
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NoNewTaleToTell: The earliest release date from any of those games is Sword of the Samurai, which was released in 1989...hardly an "old" game. Come on GOG, either release Pong or change your name to "Good New-ish Games"!
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Maighstir: Pong!? Please. Spacewar. Then we can move forwards to these modern titles you want.
The one I have in mind is newer than those but I think would be popular here because of all the folks here that love tower defense: Missile Command! The very FIRST tower defense game and one of the first ever video games famous for making it's players throw their controllers against the wall. :D
Posted May 21, 2014
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WarlockLord: Good point. To me 2000 is still what I see as the cut off date between "old" and "new", but a lot of post-2000 stuff is getting pretty "old" now too I suppose.
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tfishell: Out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm 26 and consider ~2005 to be the cutoff point for old, but I'm trying to change my expectations to around 2008 considering that is 6 years ago now.
31.

It's probably also a contributing factor that circa 2000 was when I got fed up with the gaming trends of the time and gave it up for a while. Or maybe I've still "given it up" since the majority of my buys are old stuff off of GOG or eBay.
Posted May 21, 2014
31!?
Man, when I was 31 I was 32!
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