You're on the wrong website; this is GIG.com

I cant remember but were the results of the survey ever put up?.

The assumption that were they not releasing indie games they would be releasing more classics is quite the assumption indeed. Releases were pretty slow for a long while before the indies came.

In any event GOG has a very particular audience, nothing has changed with that. The same people who want to own Fallout or Broken Sword in 2012 are the ones likely interested in stuff like Machinarium or Project Eternity.

Call it Good Old Gamers.

One has to be very careful with this statement. The rate of classic games published on GOG has not decreased. Just look at http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/last_months_drm_free_releases and you see that this year the rate of classic games is even higher than last year.

Only the fraction of newer games increases but that doesn't mean that the classic games get less visible or that GOG isn't trying less to get classic games.

And I don't see what GOG gains for the classics by not also publishing new games. A different website is not neccessary in my eyes, even though I think the Indies aren't so innovative after all. I would personally like much more high quality AAA games from the past for a reasonable price, aka System Shock.

So the situation is not that bad. GOG still adds classic games, probably still has the largest classic games catalogue. However Steam and GG are also adding classics and GOG also adding new games. So they all get more and more similar, but this is just normal economic behavior.

GOG started the revival of classic games and now everybody jumped on that train except the big three (Microsoft, LucasArt, 2K) and without them the choice of classics is limited. And for other classics the rights are just scattered so much that they are effectively lost. Probably not much GOG can do there.

GOG says for itself that they will continue bringing classics. So I guess at least partly they still stand for good old games.

I mostly hate the Amiga-era PC games simply because the PC versions were usually piss-poor. No sound card support, awful CGA or EGA graphics, broken controls (the original release of Another World/Out Of This World on PC?) etc. Amiga versions of those games were mostly superior.

This changed in the early 90s, even the PC versions of many Amiga-to-PC ports held up quite well, and of course the PC-to-Amiga ports from the VGA era were usually far superior on PC (Wing Commander, Red Baron, Sierra VGA adventures, LucasArts adventures, Microprose simulators etc etc. etc.).

Of the Amiga to PC ports, e.g. Speedball 2 PC version is good even when compared to the Amiga original, and has much better music too (with Roland MT-32/LAPC-1). The two player controls were a bit quirky though, when trying to set up two-player head-to-head with e.g. two PC gaming controllers.

And if one looks at the bare numbers even more than ever before (maybe except for the first 6 months of their existence).

I do hope you're not implying that Die by the Sword is a bad game.

Not really. Whenever there's a news item or an article or whatever with GOG mentioned, it is never ever referred to as Good Old Games unless the news item/article/whatever happens to be relatively old. This is not a coincidence.

You can get all those old games not on GOG on abandonware sites, some even with auto-installers with DOSbox which make shortcuts just like GOG's versions do.

These sites all remove the game when it comes to GOG and just post a link to the gamecard address. So it's not like you're unable to play these games, I have no doubt these games will come here eventually.

I forgot: one definite _NO_ for this suggestion, for the simple reason that already now many people, including me, are seeing our virtual game library divided into too many separate web pages/accounts/clients/whatever. If these different web sites still decide to divide themselves into various sub sites, it only gets worse, unnecessarily so. This is fortunately less of a problem with DRM-free games, but still can be an inconvenience. Like, how I recently bought 30 games straight from Strategy First, I felt I need to download them right away before I forget even having bought anything from them (in order to get them there later).

It could be similarly argued that Steam should offer a completely new web site and client for e.g. indie games, to separate them from Steam's AAA titles. Or, maybe RPG gamers don't wish to see online multiplayer FPS games cluttering the Steampowered site, so maybe the there should be a separate Steam site for each genre?

Division to "old" and "new" games is quite artificial anyway, as new games become old games at some point.

Actually, now that I checked it, there is already a way to list only older games from GOG. Go to Browse Games, click on release date, and click on e.g. pre-1995.

If GOG made the granularity finer, (e.g. you could set the exact publishing years you are interested in), wouldn't that be enough for you?

Mac support with a great opening selection and more coming has made me very happy. It feels like a ton of classics made brand new for me in a way because of the elegant way in which I can just install and play them now. It was very cool of GOG also to upgrade my existing purchased ones with new Mac support to the Mac versions at no cost. I am very appreciative of that. I am admittedly part of a much smaller market than Windows but I will certainly be buying classic and maybe some newer games too from GOG for the reasons we all like to shop here. It's more business for GOG and no matter what your preferred platform is, what is good for GOG is ultimately good for you too.

It is good for GOG to branch out and continue to grow and prosper. That works for all of us, whether you only buy the classics, prefer the new or some mix of the two, or are thrilled about the new Mac titles. It's good to keep an open mind and check out the new stuff. There are always new games coming out that are classics in the making. What better place to get them, than here - DRM free with goodies?

I will admit that early on when there was an initial flood of new stuff I was more than a little concerned. I worried there might be substantially less good old games but that isn't how things have played out. There's been a good mix of both since then.

Although I own a Mac now, like many Mac owners I can still bootcamp or run an XP virtual machine to play GOGs. So I was thrilled to see Bioforge and Medal of Honor Warchest come to GOG. Those are some damned good old games. So personally, I'm not sweating this anymore.

When I was a kid I worked in a factory making advertising promo stuff. I remember a saying I silkscreened onto many lucite cubes at that time that went like this:

"All change is loss and all loss must be mourned." - Levinson

It's so true isn't it? There is always some loss with change but many times there is gain too. I think in the end, we've all gained here. GOG is moving in a good direction and this ensures they will be around for many years to come. That is the biggest thing, that they'll be here years from now still bringing us good old games as well as new classics in the making.

I'm tired of these kind of threads.
GOG is GOG, nothing more nothing less.
get over with