Precicely, and I had a many year long vacation away from "current" games. Halflife 2, DOOM 3, Farcry all blew me away when they came out but my machine wasn't powerful enough to truly run them optimally or even just barely at all, so I never got to really play them. I played a bit of this or that up until 2006 but most 3D FPS/TPP games that came out new were just too intense for the machine to handle, so my gaming mind was locked in a time warp of 2006 and older games barely running. I stuck with RTS games and others that would work ok for a long time, and retro stuff. I didn't really get back into "modern" gaming until last year with this new PC that can pretty much run anything I throw at it full tilt. So now I have like a decade worth of PC gaming I essentially missed out on due to crappy computeritis, and even 10 year old games blow me away with their graphics. So I can play HL2, DOOM3, or whatever released since then and consistently be amazed as if they are relatively new, plus actually play games that are 1/2/3 years old and be even more blown away. I've got so many mind melting games stockpiled that the majority of even more mind melting stuff coming out while cool as hell, doesn't phase me much (except of course The Witcher 3 yada yada) because I have tonnes of eye-popping stuff to go through already and can wait it out for any particular "new" game to hit a price I will pay. No sweat for the most part. There could be the odd title like TW3 that I'll be much more eager to get right away, but even the majority of really-want games I can wait months/years for and toss down $3-5 for and be cool with that. :) Kind of feels like "name your price" on everything. :)

You sound so much like me that I feel like I'm in some sort of weird warped reality and I'm really just quoting and responding to myself. :)

It could just be a Canadian thing perhaps? :)

Ditto.

I did the pre-order for the Witcher 3, and that is by far the most money I have spent on a game in a long, long time. It was also the first time there was a game that I wanted, that I could pre-order, and was going to be DRM-free right from the get-go. I had to support that. Of course, it still wasn't full price, They gave us a discount for owning the previous Witcher titles.

Other than that I pretty much have a $10 max, and it has to be a pretty good title to get that much money. If you wait long enough, $5 will buy you just about any game out there.

I wish GOG could get SimCity 3000 and Sim Tower too! Here are their wishlists:
SimCity 3000
Sim Tower

Voted for both. I wouldn't be surprised to see them show up eventually since we have Simcity 2000 and 4 now.

I wish GOG would sometimes tell us about the current state of affairs with the publishers.

I'm not sure that's a very good idea personally considering how people generally cant or don't want to understand business negotiations and if they hear even the slightest thing they don't like, a time delay, a legal issue, a publisher/developer concern, or just about anything they don't like or that they let their minds run wild and make rampant assumptions about what they don't know yet - leads to just more questions and wanting to know more, then flamewars about things not happening as fast or good as they want, yelling and shouting, badmouthing the publisher, you name it. That's "The Internet(TM)" for ya, a veritable schmorgasboard of emotionally uncensored Youtube comments.

Naw, some things are best left to business men and lawyers and other professionals with diplomatic skills to sort through the legal and technical complexities of this stuff until there is something substantial and customer-worthy of reporting. Until they have something /substantial/ to report, saying anything at all generally leads to more questions than any answers it provides, and then anticipation/anger/frustration from people who don't get told every single detail of what is going on.

I've witnessed this type of thing happening from both sides of the fence in the software industry - as a user/customer, and as an engineer. More often than not, the less stated publicly the better until you have enough info you can legally share which will satisfy the majority of questions and curiousities people will have, and let me tell you, give 10000 answers up front and the public has a ferocious appetite and wants 10 million more answers. ;o)

It's not what people like to hear of course, but it's suicide to overshare information about such things ahead of time. Been there, done that, still have the scars.

and [url=http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/streets_of_simcity]Streets of SimCity were great too! You could import a SimCity 2000 map into both!

Dune 2000 would be great. It wasn't the best strategy game but I'm a Dune fan and it was awesome to crush regular troopers with the spice harvesters :D
Plus it had a killer soundtrack. I wonder what's the state of affairs concerning the Dune franchise. I assume it's owned by EA just like Westwood?

I'd like this post if I were able to. My main question I guess lies in the discrepancy of titles that are here and not here currently, and what (besides badgering the developer/publisher) we could do.

I know how litigious and hairy those things are as well.

When GOG does talk about this in the past they usually tell people to go vote or add games they want to see here to the official GOG wishlist: https://secure.gog.com/wishlist

At the same time they've suggested that people do this individually on their own too, and to not attach or try to coerce people into voting for things that they might not actually care about either way by attaching voting to contests or giveaways as that skews the numbers and makes the wishlist data less valuable to them and they do watch for that. They want to gauge legitimate interest via the wishlist, so people should only vote for titles that they'd either buy or really like to own or truly care about.

The other thing someone can do if they're more avid, is to seek out publishers and rights owners themselves and try to track down who owns a particular game. That can be tricky but some GOG gamers here have assisted GOG in doing this as well. Just a week or so ago the game "Seven Cities of Gold" was added to the GOG catalogue with thanks to the forum user IAmSinistar for helping to bring this game to GOG for example.

Of course any individuals or groups of people who plan on trying to track down the rights owner for a game should do so in a professional and courteous manner and not in a hostile or accusatory or demanding manner too, as the former approach plants seeds of opportunity while the latter is more likely to scare them away, so people with diplomatic skills are an asset in this area IMHO.