I sure hope GOG keeps adding oldies but goodies. I could care less ab out the newer games because they cannot sell the newer games without the DRM and I just can't see how they can keep that core promise.

What about NEW Good Old Games? Does this mean that indie developers who like to make new games that are more about play than about graphics will have a distributor for their games? Think about Aquaria for example. It is a 2d side-scroller, but a very good one. I was playing Quake II and the thought came to my mind that they don't make run and gun shooters like this anymore. Even Doom 3 and Quake IV suffered from not feeling that much like classic games. Please don't mention Painkiller or Serious Sam. They feel NOTHING like the old first-person shooters. Killing wave after wave of sieging enemies is not the same as Doom or Quake or Duke Nukem 3d. What if someone wants to make a classic FEELING game without it being a technology demo. If old games are fun, then new games that feel like old games are fun, meaning smaller budget games that are all about nostalgia could have a distributor in gog.com. Someone who doesn't have the huge development resources that some companies do, could make a simple game LIKE Doom or Quake or Fallout or Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, etcetera and sell it for $5.99 to $9.99 and actually make money. And what better target audience than people who are already looking for old fashioned games? I am very interested in game development myself, but don't expect me to make something like Modern Warfare 3. NEW inexpensive games that FEEL like the classics might be something that gog.com could look into.

If this meant true Gog's and newer indy games, all at $10 or $6(or less), I will support it. If this means $20 Call of Duty games, I will use steam exclusively. I *knew* everything would change after they released Witcher 2 on here. It's the digital distro singsularity, soon the customer's sole choice will be differing sale, like with groccery stores. Gog has been assimilated.

Well, as I mentioned before, this kinda kills the "nostalgic & sentimental magic" @TM of the place. GOG being the "bastion of classic gaming" is what drew me personally, not the lack of DRM etc.
Cluttering the place with newer releases isn't my thing... but oh well, I guess I prefer boxes on a physical shelf anyway.

Histrionic, much?

This remark gave me a chuckle, because it's true. One would think the lion's share of GOG members are $6 or $10 away from their electricity being shut off or being evicted.

Not that I have much discretionary income myself after my monthly bills are paid, but still...

One of the biggest draws of GOG, besides the golden oldies, besides the DRM-free model, are the cheap prices for quality, non-shovelware titles. We're not talking about a $60 copy of Skyrim or Mass Effect 3 or Rage or Call of Duty 17 or whatever is the FPS-flavor-of-the-month on D2D/Steam. I myself will never pay more than $20 for a game again, and certainly nothing that requires a client running in the background, a continual internet connection, or some other form of "authenticating" DRM. This makes my support of GOG a no-brainer, and I rarely bother with any other site.

Plenty. Most of them, in fact. However, I buy games on GOG I intend to play, either again or for the first time, and/or with the intention of a DRM-free back-up that can replace an original physical copy that I bought years ago. I'm selective and don't do as many impulse buys, especially during promos, as some other GOG-ites here. So I don't have a backlog of sixty, seventy, eighty games to go through like many have admitted to having...

I doubt they lose much sleep over it, so I wouldn't weep too much for the poor GOG employees putting up with "ungrateful" customers in General Discussion. From their forum contributions, they seem a pretty even-tempered and amiable lot.

GOG isn't selling out or missteping into the wrong direction. They're an ever growing business and they need to expand. This isn't some hobby created by a bunch of guys in tbeir basement.

I've always put off buying anything from Steam that I can get here even with price differences. Why? It's because GOG is hassle free. GOG has always proudly proclaimed their "core values" and if they can extend that on an even wider range, how is this anything but an excellent move?

When Steam became the juggernaut that it is, developers and publishers had to adhere to it's Steamworks requirements and anything else set forth by the contract. Look at what happened to EA when it introduced Origin. Or when Ubisfot introduced UPlay. People HATED the fact that they had to put up with yet another DRM infused system.

Likewise for GOG, if they can prove that by being DRM-free equals a larger portion of sales, won't we see more publishers jumping on that bandwagon?

It's a longshot, but at least GOG doesn't treat us PC gamers like rubbish and that's why they will always have my support.

I am so on board with this. Old, new... who cares. if I can get new games DRM free I'm all for adding them. Please.

I need more excuses to give my money to GOG.com instead of to greedy DRM-infested bastards anyway. ;)

I've been saying to my friends for a long time that there needs to be a gog.com for new releases. This is awesome news, and to celebrate I've broken my posting virginity!

Gotcha. But that means that the game publisher KNOWS their game can't compete w/the gold standard of old, thus your fear that they won't sign up w/GoG.com.

That's fine w/me. Word will get out among the industry and then subsequently to the fan-base who hit gaming sites, that the game publishers that won't sign w/GoG.com *KNOW* their new games are inferior to old games, and thus won't sign up! More fool them! :OD

as long as it's DRM free I really don't care. Really came in handy when we were at the cabin. No network whatsoever. So my brothers games didn't work until he found some place that had wifi so he would play without being online. Why would anyone copy a game anyway. The DRM they have is insane now. More protected than Windows or Fort Knox. Kinda like punish the person spending $70 on a game. ewe. No wonder I stick with adventure games.

Totally agree with you. I don't mean this as an insult toward the gog users , but I never understood why people think this forum is noticeably "classy" compared to most other sites. There are countless other sites that have the same level of "classiness. " Gog forums are worth posting on , but they aren't anything really extraordinary .
Again, I don't mean that as an insult. I'm just saying....give the rest of the internet forum users some credit. It's not all youtube type comments and " ur gay"

I got to pondering this, and had a look at the game shelf - The answer is pretty depressing actually.

Out of the 31 games I've bought off GOG (Disregarding the freebies), I've completed just one of the games since buying them here. One. Thats it... I'm ashamed. Deeply. Ahh well. If you consider games I already owned on CD or floppy, the number I've completed rises to 12. Not too bad, but still not great... As for games I've at least downloaded off here and played, that number drops slightly to 11...

But ultimately, I'm not too bothered by these numbers. Some games I mainly bought due to a deep affection for the game/series and will undoubtedly play (& complete (yet?) again, others are (very) long term time sinks, a couple are "Why did I buy this game?" (Undoubtedly the answer is because it was on sale & looked vaguely interesting). And a handful are adventure games where I have to be in the right frame of mind to start playing, else I'll get bored/lose patience with them fairly quickly and probably never come back to.

I'll keep buying games the same way I have done so far - By waiting for them to hit a decent sale, as it is all but inevitable that every game here will be discounted at some point. And one day, I will make the time to give them all the attention they deserve.

It definitely makes sense from a business standpoint, I am sure, so if offering newer games alongside the old ones helps you guys keep it going I am all for it. There was a comic store in my town a while back which started moonlighting as a movie rental place (remember those??) to help pay the bills and it worked. I was weird walking in to racks of random movies in a COMIC store but it helped them stay in business doing what they wanted to do by tapping off a more broad market.

I'm mostly interested in the repackaging of the old games though, I've bought a number through GoG simply because my old disc versions won't even install on Vista 64. The price point is right, the extras are nice, and the games work.

I don't see how they can sell new games. Just about every new game from a major developer and publisher comes with some form of DRM attached.

There's no way these publishers are going to say, "You don't want our DRM? Sure, no problem! It's gone." If it were that simple, we wouldn't have the whole DRM mess to begin with. :P

Don't get me wrong, I'd be thrilled if we could ditch DRM entirely. I just don't see publishers like Ubisoft, EA, Activision or Microsoft agreeing to this.

I voted against the selling of latest releases on GoG's past survey. I'm ambivalent towards this announcement, and maybe a little concerned. I don't value the 'no DRM' benefit of GoG games. However, I'm sure those who are anti-Steam (I haven't been bitten by Valve's draconian infringement policies) applaud this move. I'm anticipating tinges of disappointment as I won't see an old gem on the news page twice a week with the regularity of old.

Best of luck to the GoG team on their latest venture. I hope my doubts are proven wrong.