Hope they don't... Why the fuck does nobody understand what i'm saying anymore? :P

I'm fairly certain that they asked if we would be okay with it. No idea about the repercussions. Who knows, maybe the majority said no.

OMG they never release old games anymore! Look at the newest released, the original Tomb Raider trilogy and the original Civilization: Colonization! Those are BRAND NEW FULL PRICED GAMES! WTF!

Of course it's gotten worse, they're focusing on old games, newer games and indie games. Whereas they were previously focused on old games.

When you widen the scope of things you're focusing on that implies that you're less focused.

That's true, but then again, if you have a good platform, branching out like this can have favorable consequences on the whole system.

That would be a completely different matter.

I still don't care for them mixing the indies and newer games in with the older ones as I now have to check to make sure that my computer can handle the game before buying it whereas in the past I never had to worry about that.

I know it might irk you, but that sounds like a trivial problem.

It is, compared with how GOG has backed down on just about everything else they were about originally. They're still DRM free and global pricing but most of the other stuff has been dumped in the bin to increase sales.

I can't blame them for it, but it does greatly diminish what was so special about GOG when I signed up.

While I also said "no" on the question of new games and generally don't give GOG the "fanboy bonus" they get from me on old games, you have to admit, most of the "new games" are fitting rather well. Grimrock probably the best example, as it merges old school gameplay with new school graphics.

Erm, I have not been here THAT long (I even never participated in any "community surveys" :P). But it just crossed my mind that... is GOG not actually releasing MORE games these days than before all the indie/new games were introduced? I mean, people say before we had 1 new release per week. And now it should be at least 2. And more often than not we get 2-3 games released at once. So is that "loosing focus" blame really THAT relevant?

:P See how I blend in? Spy skill +100. :D

The answer is simple: GoG has been bought by Activision

Cmon what's so bad about newer games appearing on here. For the most part they are cheaper AND drm-free. What more could one want?

NO.

Do not even JOKE about that.

Wouldn't quite call it a democracy. It's quite possible less than half the people voted they wanted it and they still decided to go through with it anyway, following the exact premise that we don't know what's good us (or them rather).

Long term, for GOG this is probably the best decision if it wants to become a big retailer.

Short term for us it simply means more additional games as from some posts they seem to have a fair number of old games on backlog that just haven't been 'tweaked' for release yet. So at least for now the old games are still coming in at a good pace.

Long term I'd say it's not unwarranted that their focus shift might lead to a somewhat lessened showing of old games than could have happened otherwise. I imagine their company didn't just jump in size and now they'll be busy brokering for old games, new games and indies alike. It's hard to imagine that not taking some time away from what could've been spent on acquiring oldies.

But we'll see if they can keep the pace up. Realistically in the long run the oldies would've started running out anyway as they are obviously in a relatively limited supply (depending on how quickly they acquire them). Not to mention that their advantage of being the only ones offering oldies seems to be slowly eroding as more and more of them are being released on other retailers. (some even the updated/improved GOG editions O_o)