EDIT: Ah crap, some admin correct the title. I meant GOG.

Yes, people will be pissed or wondering what's going on. But to be fair, there will be others (you can understand by the kind of welcome Alan Wake received) that will like it.

Until you actually sign LucasArts and release System Shock, people will whine - hell, they will keep whining, even after these releases, unable to understand that in the case of the former, you can't sign them if they don't feel like it (yet), and in the case of the latter, it is out of your reach (for now).

Keep releasing as many games as you can, both old and new.

Personally, I like the new direction, as admittedly with the old one you only sold backlog material that had sentimental value for people over 30 years old - a good proof is what's been said many times in the forums, that most people on GOG haven't finished or downloaded once the games they've bought.

I mean, if you get Alan Wake from here, why not start it as soon as you're done with your current playthrough? It's a game that was released in February.

Just saying the old title was much cooler ;P.

Anyways, well said! I wish I could disagree with the sentimental value thing but it's true to a point. The price for these games are so great even though the amount of content in them is WAY more than how much you pay. I've been too distracted with a SINGLE newer game or older game to get to all these other games that I have bought here. Either way I am still glad about my purchases :).

To be fair, I'm only 21 and I've used GOG as a means of nostalgia-tripping. You don't have to be that old to wear rose-tinted glasses (or goggles, if it suits your fancy).

I'm 24 and I haven't heard of the 4/5 of GOG's older, early 90's games. That's not to say they are crap, but that they mostly appeal to people of a certain age and even then, most are just bought in order to "have them", not "play them".

From what I've seen from others and my own personal experience, an old game I've played years ago and I've decided to (re)buy, is more likely to sink in my backlog and stay there, than a newer game that breathes something fresh - unless you believe that half the people who played and finished Syndicate back in the day, bought the game on GOG and finished it again.

For me at least, most of the oldies, not matter how great they are and how happy I am for seeing them here, end up being backlog fodder.

Well I guess you can count me as one who is counter to yourself and if I were to make a conclusion based on my experience and people I've talked to I would come to the opposite one to yours. :) It's true I've got a large GOG backlog (well large for me anyway) but I go through my new old games at roughly the same rate as my new newer ones. I just buy so many more GOG games than I buy other games. :) It's true I'll be less likely to play a game I've already played to death, but there are plenty of classic games here I've gotten to discover for the first time.

I don't think it's MAINLY due to the games being old that people don't play them after buying or rebuying them here, but due to limited free time, or other pressing concerns.

I've fallen victim to the "so busy, so much stress, I can't play video games" fallacy, where I don't play because I'm stressed and don't want to waste time, and instead spend that time watching Youtube videos that are a way sillier pastime than the games I could play. :p

I'll add my 'well done GOG' as well.

And i do play all the games i buy, old or new. I find playing different games from different era's helps you better understand games and in turn what makes a good game compared to a bad game, as it is often not just about graphics.

Anyway thank you GOG for providing the only pure DRM free DD system available, for that i salute you and will gladly give you my money. Keep the games, old, new and indie coming :)

Not really you're forgetting that most of us didn't have the internet back then or anything similar. Chances are good that if we didn't have a friend to pirate a copy from that we didn't even know the game existed. And if it wasn't stocked in the one or two shops that sold software you could pretty much forget about owning them legally or illegally.

The point is that unless you happened to work at a shop buying games from distributors there's a really good chance that you never even heard of most of the games from the early '90s. I was big into games back then and there are tons that I've never heard of.

If I buy games that I already played through back in the days, I'm also unlikely to replay them, but there are dozens of great games here that I didn't have the opportunity to play back then and IMO they're still fun today if you give them a chance. But yeah, I'm one of the older folks, so maybe remembering the earlier days of video games helps a little in being more tolerant towards old-school graphics and gameplay.

EDIT: Then again, I have to admit, the about 8 GOG's that I played through last year were mostly from around the turn of the century and the early millenium years. The oldest one was from 1998, I think. (I guess I'm already familiar with most early 90's games that I'm interested in.)

Gaming magazines were a good source of info back then, and also the only way to get your hands on demo and patches. The one I used to buy never let an important relase slip under the radar, and even if I missed the issue with the actual review of a title, chances were I read a preview before.
Also, between late '90 and 2005 some used to include newish and older classics in their monthly issues for just 4-5 euro extra, that was yet another way to discover new titles. It was also extremely convenient, even cheaper than most bargain bin deals. The internet eventually killed most of them in just a few years, shame really.

Maybe in Italy, but those things didn't exist as far as I know back during the first half of the '90s and no gaming magazine in the US has routinely included anything other than demos. In fact, I can't recall ever having received a game in a magazine that was a complete game.

Certainly, none of the people I knew subscribed to them and I don't recall ever having seen any in the local software shops.

21 years old. Grew up with consoles
(PCs were pretty crap back in the 90s. Bloody things always crashed and god was it expensive actually getting a good one!)

GOG lets me play catch up! :D