Does anyone else feel this way? Sometimes you buy games on GOG, on sale or not, just for their soundtracks? I have a few games that I have no intention of playing just because it has a soundtrack.

So GOG, you see all those Zork games on sale this weekend? I'd buy 'em ALL...if they had soundtracks. ;)

So yeah, get on that, would ya?

I'm the other way around. I really don't care anything about pretty much any goodies attached to the games. I only care about ingame stuff, games being complete (with expansions etc). :)

But I realize that's just me, I can totally understand this adding value for you :)

Definitely not. I may consider buying a game for its soundtrack if that soundtrack is being distributed in a minimum quality of 16 bit WAVs. Lossy stuff is worthless to me.

I actually like the goodies that come with the games (and yes i tend to collect games more than play them haha). Both wallpapers and soundtracks. Note quite a few indie games seem to be charging separately for soundtracks, whereas we get them free with the classic games (when a soundtrack is available) ;)

Yeah, I totally love the wallpapers and other goodies, but I'm something of a gaming music collector. :)

After a couple of messages exchanged at the Crusader forums about game music, I decided to search the forums for "soundtracks".

There have been other threads about this issue, but this one has a catchy title I would say.
So I'm bumping it.
I support this thread and I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Having the game soundtrack easily available (and with proper mp3 tags) is a *serious* incentive into buying the game. Mostly because it allows me to get that necessary nostalgia dose even when I don't have time to play the game (free time is scarce).
Besides, some games have f'ing awesome music!

Considering that the music files are part of the game data, I would expect gamerip music to be provided with properly set mp3 tags.
I think it's also important to distinguish between Original Sound Tracks and Game Rip Music.
And for games that do indeed have OSTs, to provide them whenever possible as well (in lossless :D).


tl,dr: some people buy the games just for their soundtracks.
If you would like more (and better) game music to be made available, then make your voice heard.

Anything that GOG adds to the game, increases it's value, and therefore - gives a bigger incentive for people to buy that game

Many people are put off by the fact that some GOG games are missing certain expansions and some are not the best possible version of the game you can get, it should not be this way

Soundtracks are a nice bonus but never a deciding factor in my purchases.

GoG do their best to legally get as much as they can for their services. It makes full sense that they try to get full games, expansions, soundtracks, extras etc.... because the more value they add to the product they sell the more people will potentially purchase it from them.


However in the real world, many games, expansions and content are not neatly held under a single copyright. Especially for old titles where the copyright might have been sold off to several parties in bits or where its passed into hands unknown because the company has folded a long time ago (games companies are very very prone to collapse even if they released winning titles).

This creates a legal mess that GoG has to sort through, contact and try to bring to the table to get a game released. Sometimes it all goes their way and other times its harder - eg the expansions for some games.

Heck if you want a more modern example try to find anywhere that sells a legit digital version of Battle for Middle Earth by EA - you won't. Because the licence it was made under is now expired and EA hasn't got the rights to distribute it any more (fare as I know the cinema group that made LotR holds those rights now).

New Line Cinema, isn't it? But yeah, EA owns the games, but doesn't have the rights to sell them unless they remove all references to Lord of the Rings from them. NLC owns the Lord of the Rings brand, but can do nothing with the games.