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Posted July 25, 2019
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Sachys: of course, if you're not a fan of turn based games, then perhaps the cutting edge rpg Akalabeth might be more your thing?
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OldFatGuy: Assuming s/he has the hardware required to run this cutting edge program....
im still saving up tp buy a monitor of some sort so I can see its splendour.

apologies for the spellings, but morse code is not my forte.
Posted July 25, 2019
"Why are the games so old?"

The correct answer is...


...because you're old.
Posted July 25, 2019
No honrorable mention to The Witcher series?
Posted July 25, 2019
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Dark_art_: No honrorable mention to The Witcher series?
"It's all soooo old. Even that Ansel stuff in the third game is outdated and nowhere near real life."

...said no one. Ever.
Posted July 25, 2019
Gamer: Logs on to "GOOD OLD GAMES" service

Gamer: writes a forum post "Why are the games on good OLD games so OLD?"

Passive Observer: *scratches head.
Posted July 25, 2019
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DubConqueror: When the store expanded into releasing new games as well (which GOG needed to do for continuous income), many publishers of 'new-ish and AAA level' games, are afraid to put their games on a DRM-free store as they (falsely, I think) believe that putting DRM on their games will get them more sales (they get pirated otherwise, is their reasoning) and they only release their older titles here, that already had many sales but will get a second life because of people wanting to get them without DRM. Proving release without DRM is a selling point, therefore making their first argument moot, moreso because games get pirated anyway, despite DRM.
I'm going to say it's also the fact that GOG has far fewer users than Steam thus generally far fewer sales, thus some "AAA" publishers don't want to bother with GOG unfortunately. (But there was sort of a related discussion here)
Post edited July 25, 2019 by tfishell
Posted July 25, 2019
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Dark_art_: No honrorable mention to The Witcher series?
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TheMonkofDestiny: "It's all soooo old. Even that Ansel stuff in the third game is outdated and nowhere near real life."

...said no one. Ever.
It doesn't have that buzz word "Ray Tracing".
Posted July 25, 2019
> Doesn't know why GOG sells old games.

https://www.gog.com/about_gog

I also wondered why a local takeout sold so much seafood. Turns out it was a seafood restaurant.
Posted July 25, 2019
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DubConqueror: Two reasons:

The store started off as Good Old Games, with the intention of releasing old games that were hard to get and tweaking them so they would run on modern systems.

When the store expanded into releasing new games as well (which GOG needed to do for continuous income), many publishers of 'new-ish and AAA level' games, are afraid to put their games on a DRM-free store as they (falsely, I think) believe that putting DRM on their games will get them more sales (they get pirated otherwise, is their reasoning) and they only release their older titles here, that already had many sales but will get a second life because of people wanting to get them without DRM. Proving release without DRM is a selling point, therefore making their first argument moot, moreso because games get pirated anyway, despite DRM.
people will pirate games, if they have DRM or not, but why should i support developers who despise GOG and its users mere existance they dnt deserve my money they can bugger offf
Posted July 25, 2019
They are so old because they were made a long time ago. That's how time works in these parts.
Posted July 25, 2019
Because it's written in the name 'Good Old Games '
and the many of them, from my humble point of view, are better than the majority of the newish one

and you are a member from 2014 and it took only 5 years to realize it?
Post edited July 25, 2019 by Damon18
Posted July 25, 2019
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Some might even say that not enough old games available here.
Post edited July 25, 2019 by zlaywal
Posted July 25, 2019
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Damon18: Because it's written in the name 'Good Old Games '
and the many of them, from my humble point of view, are better than the majority of the newish one

and you are a member from 2014 and it took only 5 years to realize it?
They did change from being called Good old Games to GOG.com no longer being an acronym in 2010.
Post edited July 25, 2019 by Maighstir
Posted July 25, 2019
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Windfall37: I've been looking around the store and most feel quite old either from the pre-3D era or very early 3D which make them look like non-cubic Minecraft. Is there anything new-ish and AAA level?
Try playing a few older games, eventually your eyes adjust and they're fine to look at once your brain starts concentrating on the gameplay.
Post edited July 25, 2019 by Crosmando
Posted July 25, 2019
Because GOG is the only custodian of the history of an emerging art form.
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