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General discussionWhat happens when GOG gets all possible "good old games"?(36 posts)(36 posts)
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Posted April 27, 2016
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tfishell: Will the GOG staff be like "great job everybody, we got all the good old games that ever existed, we can shut down now", then forget to let everyone download their games beforehand? Will everyone lose interest and go back to Steam, thus sending GOG into bankruptcy? Wha happen?
First, could you define "good", and the define "old"?
Posted April 27, 2016
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tfishell: Will the GOG staff be like "great job everybody, we got all the good old games that ever existed, we can shut down now", then forget to let everyone download their games beforehand? Will everyone lose interest and go back to Steam, thus sending GOG into bankruptcy? Wha happen?
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rgnrk: They'll finally start releasing the "huge" pile of rejected games :P
Yup, they'll start grabbing the Garbage Old Games as well.
Posted April 27, 2016
Why do you think games are being removed every now and then from the store? It's just the way that GOG has to guarantee a future supply of good-old-games releases, it's all planned by the blue guys.
Post edited April 27, 2016 by park_84
Posted April 27, 2016
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tfishell: Will the GOG staff be like "great job everybody, we got all the good old games that ever existed, we can shut down now", then forget to let everyone download their games beforehand? Will everyone lose interest and go back to Steam, thus sending GOG into bankruptcy? Wha happen?
Everybody will be crying in their sleep, of course.
Posted April 27, 2016
This isn't possible. Some of the classic good old games that probably will NEVER see GOG's light, are:

Diablo 1 + Hellfire
Starcraft 1
Diablo 2 + LOD
Command and Conquer series
Grand theft auto 1 + 2

Especially the last item i listed, has been ceased being distributed AND sold, at least on pc, from their bloody copyrights holder. DAMN!
Posted April 27, 2016
Did you sniff glue again...?
Posted April 27, 2016
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anothername: gog getting all requires the time to stop progressing. Or games with PC compatibility stopped being developed for some reason.
Actually the latter possibility is somewhat likely, as it has been said to happen at some point. Of course, such a discussion already existed in the 90s, so it may take a while before it really happens.

But such a thing happening might really be a goldmine for GOG. Getting rid of PCs wouldn't make people forget all those games, so porting them to new platforms (whatever those might be), can actually be where the future lies.

To some extent that already happens, as old games are released for Linux and such (even if many of them simply pack the game files with some emulator, which anyone owning the old games could do).
Posted April 27, 2016
They will never run out of old games. 5 years from now Fallout 4 will be old for example. So they can release that. And the cycle would never end.
Post edited April 27, 2016 by blotunga
Posted April 27, 2016
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: This isn't possible. Some of the classic good old games that probably will NEVER see GOG's light, are:

Diablo 1 + Hellfire
Starcraft 1
Diablo 2 + LOD
Command and Conquer series
Grand theft auto 1 + 2

Especially the last item i listed, has been ceased being distributed AND sold, at least on pc, from their bloody copyrights holder. DAMN!
You forgot NOLF.
Posted April 27, 2016
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anothername: gog getting all requires the time to stop progressing. Or games with PC compatibility stopped being developed for some reason.
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PixelBoy: Actually the latter possibility is somewhat likely, as it has been said to happen at some point. Of course, such a discussion already existed in the 90s, so it may take a while before it really happens.

But such a thing happening might really be a goldmine for GOG. Getting rid of PCs wouldn't make people forget all those games, so porting them to new platforms (whatever those might be), can actually be where the future lies.

To some extent that already happens, as old games are released for Linux and such (even if many of them simply pack the game files with some emulator, which anyone owning the old games could do).
According to some PC Gaming was already dead and forgotten by october 2004 but thankfully ressurected in november 2004. :P
Post edited April 27, 2016 by anothername
Posted April 27, 2016
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timppu: Luckily there are still the bad old games too they can start selling. BOG.com.
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Terpor: Like the crappy Mega Man, Castlevania and early Street Fighter PC ports :)
oh my. i remember picking the street fighter ports and the mega man ports at a mall as a bundle, back in like 1994. i tried playing them with a gravis game pad and they were TERRIBLE! i would totally buy them here tho.
Posted April 27, 2016
GOG will concentrate on getting Queen: the eYe
Posted April 27, 2016
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: This isn't possible. Some of the classic good old games that probably will NEVER see GOG's light, are:

Diablo 1 + Hellfire
Starcraft 1
Diablo 2 + LOD
Command and Conquer series
Grand theft auto 1 + 2

Especially the last item i listed, has been ceased being distributed AND sold, at least on pc, from their bloody copyrights holder. DAMN!
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paladin181: You forgot NOLF.
Diablo, C&C and GTA are the hardest and trickiest games to get here, they are maximum difficulty to negotiate for, i gather, since their current owners have their own distribution networks, or prefer someone other's almost exclusively. I bet NOLF would be much easier to get here than those above.
Post edited April 27, 2016 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
Posted April 27, 2016
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tfishell: Will the GOG staff be like "great job everybody, we got all the good old games that ever existed, we can shut down now", then forget to let everyone download their games beforehand? Will everyone lose interest and go back to Steam, thus sending GOG into bankruptcy? Wha happen?
Well that is a LONG way to go until GOG completes my list:

Armies of Exigo
Bohemia Library
Blade of Darkness
Diablo 1 and 2
Starcraft 1
Warcraft Trilogy
Black and White 1 and 2
Full Throttle
Command and Conquer series
Monkey Island 3 and 4
Age of Empires serires
Civilization series
Half-Life 1 and 2
Counter Strike and Condition Zero
Doom 3 and Ressurection of Evil expansion
Dungeon Siege 1 and 2
Mechwarrior series
SimCity 1 and 3000
The Sims 1 and 2
Battlefield 1942, Vietnam, 2, and 2142
Call of Duty 1+United Offensive
SWAT 4
Commander Keen
Hexen series
Heretic Games
Total War Rome 1, Shogun 1, Medieval 1 and 2
Marathon series
Myth seires
Wizardry 1 to 5
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 2 and 3 and their expansions
Tom Clacny's Splineter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory
Brother's in Arms Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood
Tron 2.0
Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City, San Andreas
Red Orchestra 1
Rise of Nations Gold
Crysis 1+Warhead
Throne of Darkness
Shadowcaster
Dune 1 and 2
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Zax: The Alien Hunter
Gorasul: The Legacy of the Dragon
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor
Siege of Avalon
Seal Of Evil
FATE games
Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 1 and 2
Warhammer Dark Omen
Power Monger
No One Lives Forever 1 and 2
Posted April 27, 2016
It will never happen.
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