I think GOG should spend more time trying to find classic gems no matter how big its development budget was or the marketing budget was at release time. Telling GOG we want to see big name games probably sends them scrambling and spending resources on more difficult tasks and if they cracked a tough nut it probably be picked up by all their competitors in short order anyway. This is true of smaller old games as well, but we should try to encourage GOG that you release an old game that is hard to find, we will reward you with our purchasing dollars.
I am doubtful that the old games that I'm looking for will end up on GOG, a lot of them fall into the oh it is in legal limbo, or I don't see that company budging. But some I think are missing because they don't want to put out games that have tiny downloads, like something that fits on 1 or 2 floppy discs. Or they don't want appear to be filling out with substandard games. Biggest and best, that is all. I wonder if we had a culture that celebrated and reward GOG based on just the quality of the game and the rareness, difficult in finding the game, if we wouldn't get more and more interesting games.
While trying to figure out what old games people are looking for, I found dozen of games that peaked my interest. Ones I have never heard of before. If GOG got those games, brought them to my attention and then had a price I could live with, they would have more of my money. Who knows maybe it would be a strategy that would bring in a few new customers as well. And if a customer comes here looking of games they have been searching for years and years, which are obscure games, and they realize that GOG isn't likely to ever get it because it is too obscure for them to bother then that customer gives up coming to GOG and that means GOG has missed out try to sell them other games as well.
So GOG is going to go after big games because that will bring in more customers for sure, we don't need to tell them that. We need to encourage and help GOG bring in rare old games, one if the climate was right and a old obscure game was welcomed by the community with open arms and celebration. It would signal that it was good to bring these games to us, and it would seem worth trying to get in touch with right holders for GOG and regular community members alike.