I'm exceedingly happy that GOG will sell DRM free new releases. And more classics are on the way. People who want only classics, can ignore the other games. The bigger GOG gets, the better chance that some of the hold-out publishers will change their mind.

New games = GOG growth
GOG growth = more classics

Indeed, that would be business suicide. I know I wouldn't be buying anything more from them if they did that.

They wanna grow the userbase. But having said that they also said they wont stop releasing old classics (as opposed to any old game).

To be fair, GOG is releasing old games at roughly the same rate (even a little faster) than it did before they started releasing new games as well. They've simply doubled the number of games released in a week. I had hoped myself that GOG would do a spinoff of sister-site with unified accounts, but GOG is far from ignoring the classics. And now the people who had hoped GOG would sell new and indie titles get that too.

Funny, reminds me of the programming mistake of not making code generic enough (which reduces the possibility of code reuse), except, applied to their company name.

Perhaps marketing folks really would benefit from software engineering courses :P. Then, you have two possible interpretations that are both awful for the company:

1) (Modern) and (Good Old) Games, meaning only the old games have to be good

2) (Modern and Good) Old Games, which is more than a little unclear

Hey I don't mind. I think GOG was already selling Witcher, and possibly Witcher 2, when I joined GOG. I think there were some other semi-new games on the catalogue at that point as well.

So, if GOG selling newer games would have been some kind of inexcusable insult from GOG in my eyes, I guess I wouldn't have joined at all.

Not the only thing. They do Have 3 principles they always stick to.
Release games with goodies
Release games DRM-free
Release games with same cost all around the world. (The latter might be problematic to you if your salary is in RMB :P )

But with the changing dynamics of the core of GoG how long does this last?

Those were exceptions though since the makers of those games own GOG.

You mean except when they don't release goodies with the release. Which has happened all too often lately. But, yes, you're right I had forgotten about the global pricing.

Yes, about the goodies, do you have to download them seperatly or do they come with the .exe file you direct-download ?

separately, but you can download them all with one click if you use GOG downloader.

I'm pretty sure they caused similar shitstorm here, though. Also, I think there were already at that point some semi-new games on GOG too, so not only DOS or Win9x games from the 80s and 90s.

Not that much really since, well, it's the owner. Sure, it was strange, but it was still expected to be an exception rather than a gamechanger.

Good point, but besides classics, that's pretty much their only selling point over Steam, Origin, GamersGate etc. So it is unsure whether moving to DRM-games would really help them gain any more ground/income.

If they did that, I'd most probably just not buy such games from GOG. I'd vote with my wallet, as always. Alan Wake + American Nightmware wouldn't certainly have been purchased by me (for now, and possibly not from GOG), I don't know about others.