Pre-2k games that aren't here need to be listed.Think you could do it? No. Well,try finding them and buying the rights to them then converting them to todays pc's.That would be another,no.I think in all honesty Gog has a hard job doing this stuff,so how about a bit of slack?

pre 2k... Not sure... I'm sure there's some i'd like to see for completeness sake, but not to actually play. Jetfighter series, Mechwarrior series, Links (golf games), alley cat, Questron, plenty of Atari/Apple/Commedore64/8bit systems with full libraries...

But some of the games i'd more likely want to see are a bit newer than that. Like Baulder's Gate Dark Alliance 1+2, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Destroy all Humans, Reign of fire, Marvel vs Capcom... etc....

DRM-Free IS enough to allow somebody compromise, yet not to everything, of course.

It is a shame that not more oldies come here. There are many iconic, cult classic titles and almost all have the Abandonware status. There is a bunch i downloaded for free (cough!), but i would pay on GOG for an official release of them ANYTIME! Games like Sub Culture, The Reap, Cybermage, etc.

Can't wait for GOG to become once again, Good Old Games. It's like part of me (as a collector/gamer entity) is missing...

Well, gog could stop rejecting or ignoring classics. That would help...

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/classic_digital_rereleasing_old_infogrames_games_on_steam/post26

Dude, you obviously don't know how free works. "Free" in this case means you don't pay for it; it doesn't mean you can put it up on your store for download. Wait, what? You actually want a store to have monopoly on a game? How does the fact that the game is available somewhere else detriment your GOG experience?

Ah, that's the big negative thing...

Why not? If you don't request money for downloading someone elses soft from your site, then what's the problem?

Unless they change the license to one that allows anyone to pick up the game and distribute it without their consent, you can't. Whether you ask for money or not is immaterial.

This is exactly the same reason I'm here :)

Is current license different? Because I thought that "freeware" meant exactly this.

No.

Freeware means that the current owner of the software is distributing it without asking for money in return. "Free" in this case means "gratis".

Free software means that the software can be used, changed, distributed... etc. And may be sold for a price. "Free" in this case means libre.

(See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre)

The above are simplifications to broad definitions. There are other nuances and details and different freeware and free software licences. And the two are not mutually exclusive of course.

Red Alert falls in the "freeware" category. Basically EA reduced its price to 0$, but otherwise the license remained pretty much unchanged.

You want sites that sell old classic titles ? Well you are in luck, Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist and worldwide online shopping sells these kind of games in limited quantity, ranging from a couple of bucks to the hundreds, with missing cases and booklets.

You'll have to look somewhere else for "classic" titles (definition needed) that may sell enough and/or only cost a dime to acquire for GOG. Exclusivity has always been a console thing and I'm glad it has not crept in the computer games world.

Yes, GOG is changing, and tries to be more like Steam, it's inevitable because they want more customers. The true difference is the (more or less for some games) DRM-free version of games that are sold here and that's a big NO for a lot of publishers. But that's a big YES for me.

Check the licenses. Some companies are sneaky like that, just like how some FAQ writers disallow gamefaqs and such. Downloading for free and redistributing for free are completely different in legal terms.
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Yeah, that's why this topic comes up just about every week :P

And I'm not here for the classics, never were. I did buy some classics, and enjoyed them, and there are some that I still hope will eventually come to GOG, but I'm really here for the new games, DRM-free.