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Swedrami: Pretty much anything Blizzard, at least for now and as long as they are tangled up in this huge cluster fuck of politics, internal mismanagement in regards to their workforce and the consistent bad PR from executives giving themselves these ludicrous bonuses on top of their salaries.

At this point Blizzard might just be too scared that even something positive like releasing Diablo 2 + ToB on GoG could somehow end up in yet another PR blunder for them.
Well, they did release Diablo and W1+W2 here. I agree it's not very likely we are going to get anything else, but it's SOMETHING.

Now, Rockstar would sooner liquidate rather than release one of their games DRM-free
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park_84: As a rule of thumb, Win16 games and anything from systems other than PC.
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dudalb: WIn 16 games are all most impossible to run on a 64 bit system, That is why "Indian Jones Desktp Advewntures " wont be here anytime soon.

THe EA Lord Of the Rings games because of license issues. LIcence scpired a number of years ago, EA no longer has the legal right ot sell those. Same for the Dune games.
And then you have games like NOLF which are in licence Limbo.....no one really knows who all the licence owners are;and no one wants to spend the money on legal costs to find out.
Games that caem out for Windows 16 only, dince witout dual boot or VR you cannot run them on a 64 bit Windows system.
I think games like Half Life are very unlikely dut to the policy of the copyright owners, but not totally impossible.

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nevarRed: Mechwarrior.
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dudalb: again due to licencing issues.
The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King was one of my favourite games as a kid. I still own a physical copy of it, but it's missing 1 out of 3 discs, so i can't install it. The... versions sailing on the high seas have completely butchered soundtrack and no cutscenes, which breaks immersion.

dunno why EA won't just split money with WB and release it digitally. It's still some money.

Valve won't release their games here because they want to have people pinned to Steam. Their own games are not solely a profit in themselves, but also a way of promoting their own store.

However the first Half Life is so old that they might as well release it. Or they might get a**-holish and release Condition Zero here :D
Post edited October 26, 2020 by GeraltOfRivia_PL
Dungeon Master 1+2..........
So sad to say, but a lot of my favorite Star Trek games

Armada 1 and 2
Klingon Academy
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PixelBoy: The problem with sports games is that most players don't care about games which are few years old or older.
I'd rather play the original NBA Jam than any "officially licensed" basketball game created in the last couple decades. But I acknowledge that most players may have different preferences. Boomshakalaka! I feel similarly about wrestling games: I suppose it's more arcade-era action nostalgia than trying to have a simulation level of detail about what the athletes are doing.
Anything Sony is sitting on because Sony.
Rebel Star from ZX Spectrum. However on rutracker there a huge archive with emulator.
Never say never but...I'll go lowbrow.

Gorilla.bas and any other low level early programming example games for MS-DOS.
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Sarafan: Actually we can't be so sure whether this or that game will never arrive to GOG, especially after Blade Runner and Diablo was released here. I'm sure there will be some pleasant surprises in the future.
Yes, there are surprises all the time, so you can never be 100% sure, but some games, like the Valve ones, are probably a pretty safe bet of never turning up here ... as DRM-Free anyway.

Call this thread a record if you like, perhaps helping others to be realistic about what could ever turn up here, or showing that you should never give up hope. No doubt both apply, and a good exercise in determining which is which.

PLEASE FOLK, if you are going to provide a title, give your reasoning, if you want them added to the FULL LIST in post #3.
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park_84: ...... anything from systems other than PC.
Well as we have had many console conversions turn up here, that is not really the case.
Post edited October 26, 2020 by Timboli
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dudalb: WIn 16 games are all most impossible to run on a 64 bit system,
OTVDM makes it possible. Haven't tried it with many games but it's worked with Castle of the Winds, Gravity Well, and a couple of others.
Planet's Edge...............Links Golf Series...........and too many to list.
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Tallima: I hope to see some of these predictions proven false.
Let's see then, how about ...

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (license issues)
Discworld (license issues)
American McGee's Alice (EA, maybe license issues, too?)
The Hobbit (2003) (no idea, maybe license issues?)
Heretic 2 (no idea, but it's not even sold on Steam in the Heretic+Hexen pack)

*knocking on wood* ;)
Post edited October 27, 2020 by Leroux
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Tallima: I hope to see some of these predictions proven false.
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Leroux: Let's see then, how about ...

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (license issues)
Discworld (license issues)
American McGee's Alice (EA, maybe license issues, too?)
The Hobbit (2003) (no idea, maybe license issues?)
Heretic 2 (no idea, but it's not even sold on Steam in the Heretic+Hexen pack)

*knocking on wood* ;)
If gog is around in a hundred years, some of these will be possible.
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kmanitou: Would it truly be Diablo 3 without Error 37?
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DoomSooth: THIRTY-SEVEN? In a ROW?!
Try not to hit any DRM on the way to the parking lot!
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DoomSooth: THIRTY-SEVEN? In a ROW?!
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ReynardFox: Try not to hit any DRM on the way to the parking lot!
Shouldn't that be "FCK any DRM"? :)
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ReynardFox: Try not to hit any DRM on the way to the parking lot!
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DoomSooth: Shouldn't that be "FCK any DRM"? :)
Dammit, yeah it should be.

There’s nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?

(I love Clerks)