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Posted September 08, 2009
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Navagon: Ah, I see. Well hopefully they just removed the list rather than pulled the game.

Well, there's a list of games marked as "coming soon", but the last game on there was M&M6.
Posted September 08, 2009
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Navagon: Ah, I see. Well hopefully they just removed the list rather than pulled the game.
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Miaghstir: Well, there's a list of games marked as "coming soon", but the last game on there was M&M6.

But its use has been intermittent at best. The decision to pull Spellforce 2 from that list may have as much to do with the list (not wanting to misrepresent what they have in the works) as the game.
Posted September 08, 2009
There is also the chance that they just get off on the amazed adulation we seem to heap on almost any surprise release and so have decided to effectively ignore the upcoming games list.
Posted September 09, 2009
Does anyone know about how often they upload new games to the site? I've known about GOG for a LONG time now, but this Interplay sale finally pushed me into joining the site and picking up some games. So while I've periodically checked it out, I've never done so enough to see how often they update their library of games.
Also, is there a limit to how new of a game they'll upload, or do they just upload whatever they get the license for regardless of the date of publication? I think the newest game I saw was from 2005 or so.
One more thing...how often do they have sales like the one they had just now? I realize this was a 1-year anniversary sale, but do they have other sales as well? Like, weekly or monthly sales, or just completely random sales?
Post edited September 09, 2009 by bmxjouster
Posted September 09, 2009
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bmxjouster: Does anyone know about how often they upload new games to the site? I've known about GOG for a LONG time now, but this Interplay sale finally pushed me into joining the site and picking up some games. So while I've periodically checked it out, I've never done so enough to see how often they update their library of games.
Also, is there a limit to how new of a game they'll upload, or do they just upload whatever they get the license for regardless of the date of publication? I think the newest game I saw was from 2005 or so.
One more thing...how often do they have sales like the one they had just now? I realize this was a 1-year anniversary sale, but do they have other sales as well? Like, weekly or monthly sales, or just completely random sales?

They usually upload one new game per week and one mini-sale/weekend deal per week. The weekend deal is either thematic (pinball games, flight-sim games) or from a particular publisher.
For the date of publication limit, I think the newest one is a 2006 game which name I forget.
Posted September 09, 2009
I've never really thought about this, but I wonder how hard it is to get games. I mean there must be a lot of legal mumbo jumbo going on. Some of these publishers have been out of business, or sold alot of times. The price and no DRM are probably tuff sells. I'm pretty ignorant of the inside dealings but I bet it takes alot of work from the time they decide on a game until it actually hits the store.
Post edited September 09, 2009 by cole
Posted September 09, 2009
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Aliasalpha: There is also the chance that they just get off on the amazed adulation we seem to heap on almost any surprise release and so have decided to effectively ignore the upcoming games list.

THAT'S IT!
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cole: I've never really thought about this, but I wonder how hard it is to get games. I mean there must be a lot of legal mumbo jumbo going on. Some of these publishers have been out of business, or sold alot of times. The price and no DRM are probably tuff sells. I'm pretty ignorant of the inside dealings but I bet it takes alot of work from the time they decide on a game until it actually hits the store.

Exactly. I imagine that there's a pool of publishers they start with, and then they try to sell said publishers on releasing their back catalog on GOG, like you said, a tough sell. And given how so many game companies fiercely guard IPs they have no intention of ever re-releasing, it probably has to go through several sets of lawyers before GOG ever gets their hands on it.
But I think digital distribution is really helping to raise "back catalog awareness" with publishers, so hopefully it will only get easier from here on out. And that's A Good Thing (TM)
Post edited September 09, 2009 by phanboy4
Posted September 09, 2009
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bmxjouster: Does anyone know about how often they upload new games to the site? I've known about GOG for a LONG time now, but this Interplay sale finally pushed me into joining the site and picking up some games. So while I've periodically checked it out, I've never done so enough to see how often they update their library of games.

Usually its 1-2 games a week but sometimes they have a big burst of games. I think when ubisoft signed up there were 5 games released on the same day
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