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yazleb: I think some of you posting on here did not read what I wrote carefully.
"Perhaps we could craft and sign a petition that GOG could show publishers?"
I stated that any such letter should be for GOG team to show to publishers.
Thus any ideas that some of you gathered about GOG community members "annoying" publishers are incorrect.
Aside from that, how can you assume that this would hurt publishers' willingness to re-release titles?
This type of letter is not meant to be fan-boyish and so forth, it is a gesture that I thought we could do on behalf of GOG to give ONLY to GOG team.
I hope this clears up any misunderstanding in regards to my intentions.
Thanks,
Mika'il

Perhaps I did misread. My bad :)
However I think pressuring the GoG Lords would be just a bad. I know a petition isn't necessarily pressure but it can be. I think we should just leave things be for the moment... unless of course a a Big Blue Post comes along telling us to go ahead with it :)
Karl
Oh please, stop this petitioning madness :-D
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KingofGnG: Oh please, stop this petitioning madness :-D

Perhaps I am incapable of expressing myself clearly, but This is not some stupid fan boy or idiotic petition.
This is meant to be a show of support, a letter of good gesture to give to the GOG team, for them to use.
But sod it, anyways, it seems like people don't know how to read what I write and don't care anyhow.
If I could I'd just delete this post altogether
Post edited October 21, 2008 by yazleb
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KingofGnG: Oh please, stop this petitioning madness :-D
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yazleb: Perhaps I am incapable of expressing myself clearly, but This is not some stupid fan boy or idiotic petition.
This is meant to be a show of support, a letter of good gesture to give to the GOG team, for them to use.
But sod it, anyways, it seems like people don't know how to read what I write and don't care anyhow.
If I could I'd just delete this post altogether

I understand what you mean though I believe I did misinterpret it originally. I believe KingofGnG was being facetious. I certainly agree with your desire of more publisher and games here but I just think we need to give it some time.
Unless we could use fanboy-ism to bully Lucasarts into giving us Ye Olde Point and Click games...Then I might reconsider. But I think you'd have better luck waltzing up to Fort Knox saying "Uhh.. Hi.. I'm here to.. Umm.. Polish the gold.. Yeah that's right.. Polish it."
Karl
I like the Idea to support Gog, but I have to admit, I think the best show of support is with our wallets, that is continue to BUY the games on here that we want, that they have furnished. Also a little more patience may not hurt as well as the site is still beta (beating that horse good now)
Petition seems kinda harsh, and potentially moot, if GOG can show revenue and TONS of active subscribers downloading and playing the games, then no amount of signatures (read=speaking) will have more impact than that (read = doing)
Back to my first point and adding it to this one:
If we spread the word in our own circles and sign up our good friends who will also PAY for these games, then that too, can only help. I personally am going to concentrate on getting as many of my buddies/co-workers who would be interested to sign up, and give it whirl, the more money Gog makes on the current catalog, the more publishers will gladly let them publish their titles that meet the already stated criteria.
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KingofGnG: Oh please, stop this petitioning madness :-D
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yazleb: Perhaps I am incapable of expressing myself clearly, but This is not some stupid fan boy or idiotic petition.
This is meant to be a show of support, a letter of good gesture to give to the GOG team, for them to use.
But sod it, anyways, it seems like people don't know how to read what I write and don't care anyhow.
If I could I'd just delete this post altogether

I think you have taken it too personally :-P
Putting it simply, petitions to me are like a plague, there are petitions for who disagree on the new Diablo III design, petition for this, petition for that, petition for anything. For the best part they are useless, and do not give any worth contribution to a discussion or a controversy.
The problem of GOG.com, and frankly I've understood this way before entering the betatesting of the site, is that publishers (for the most part) fear the DRM-free scheme even for older games because they are ran by a bunch of gutless assholes with no clues of what their business or their customers really is or are or need.
An this sad state of things, sorry about that, can't be changed with this petition madness (as I've said). Do you want to support GOG.com? Buy games, spread the voice and lobby the forums. But please, no more petitions, they are too much abused to be useful any more :-P
Right. yazleb, I understand what you're saying, but some ideas you just have to let go. The best thing you can do is to support this movement is to buy games, introduce others to GOG, and encourage them to buy games.
That way, when the staff go to visit EA they won't say "Here's a list of people who claim to agree with our opinion". No, they will compare a chart of the money Interplay has made from their catalog since putting it on GOG (beep beep beep) to one of before GOG (beeeeeeeeep) and ask "So, how much money have you been making from Syndicate recently?".
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yazleb: Perhaps I am incapable of expressing myself clearly, but This is not some stupid fan boy or idiotic petition.
This is meant to be a show of support, a letter of good gesture to give to the GOG team, for them to use.
But sod it, anyways, it seems like people don't know how to read what I write and don't care anyhow.
If I could I'd just delete this post altogether
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Karlallen: I understand what you mean though I believe I did misinterpret it originally. I believe KingofGnG was being facetious. I certainly agree with your desire of more publisher and games here but I just think we need to give it some time.
Unless we could use fanboy-ism to bully Lucasarts into giving us Ye Olde Point and Click games...Then I might reconsider. But I think you'd have better luck waltzing up to Fort Knox saying "Uhh.. Hi.. I'm here to.. Umm.. Polish the gold.. Yeah that's right.. Polish it."
Karl

HaHa nice one Karl :o)
These recent posts remind me another old classic.....
SPACE BALLS 2: The Search for More Money$$$
But yes seriously though, you guys are all 100% correct, show of support is best done with Buying more games and word of mouth.
If we want GOG to succeed we have to spread it like the black plague(just make sure it doesn't go out of fashion).
looks like they have a deal with Strategy First and Pluto 13. Nice job i was getting worried
I desperately need good old managerials.
Post edited October 23, 2008 by seibit
While I'm no PR guy I hear things during breaks and so on... ;) Every publisher is different - for some lots of hype and e-mails would be encouraging, for others they would be a deterrent. The best bet is to just let our boys and girls do their magic. :)
Post edited October 23, 2008 by Firek
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seibit: I desperately need good old managerials.

I don't know if you're sports fan or not, but Eastside Hockey Manager is a lot of fun. It only went up to 2007, but there are fan sites that have updated photos and rosters.
I also put Detriot on the wish list, which I had a lot of fun with, now if I could only find that disk. :)