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Posted November 18, 2011
If you've been checking out the news on gaming sites around the 'Net, you've very possibly heard that GOG has announced some exciting news about our plan for 2012 and beyond.

In particular, there are three main elements that make up our announced path for the next few years: adding newer games to the catalog, focusing on continuing our impressive growth, and bringing exclusive game releases to GOG.com. There are a few common questions we've seen about this, so before we link you to some of these discussions online, we thought we'd create a quick FAQ for you.

Q: Oh no! GOG.com is never going to sell another classic PC game again and my favorite game never made it here!

A: Don't worry, GOG.com will continue to release classic PC games. We are, however, looking to expand the availability window of games on GOG, so we won't focus only on PC classics anymore.

Q: Isn't your name Good Old Games? It seems kind of silly to sell new games on an old gaming website.

A: We've always been about our core values: DRM-free games, flat prices worldwide, and extra goodies included in our releases. So don't think about us as "Good Old Games"; think of us as "GOG.com", and perhaps you can work your way around that objection. ;)

Q: I see your terrible plot! When you guys start selling games with DRM, I will leave the Internets in disgust and never return.

A: Don't worry: we're devoted to those three core values that we mentioned above, and we know that if we ever abandoned them we'd quickly become just another digital distributor. Our goal is to become the best alternative digital distributor out there: the guys who do it differently, who respect their customers, and who can help change what the industry is doing as a result.


If you have any other pressing questions about our future plans, feel free to ask them in the forum and we'll do our best to answer as many as we can. Keep in mind that we can't always answer questions you ask for a variety of reasons, so apologies in advance if you happen to ask one of those kinds of questions.
Posted April 11, 2012
GOG.com has been a great experience for me so far. I don't see any real problem with the changing of their model a bit as long as they continue to sell the classics and don't change the pricing structure too much. I hear what both sides are saying but I really think GOG.com cares about it's customers and won't do anything too drastic.
Posted April 12, 2012
Nice work getting Theme Hospital here!

Would be nice to have even more Bullfrog "gems" like:

All Theme Park games (yes world, inc too)
Genewars
Populous the Beginning and its expansion
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And old classic racing game called Ignition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_%28video_game%29.

Dont know how popular or how many even know that game, but for me all those i mentioned here would be day one purchases! ^^
Post edited April 12, 2012 by supersabre
Posted April 15, 2012
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supersabre: And old classic racing game called Ignition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_%28video_game%29.
I'm waiting for this one too. In Germany Ignition was published as "Bleifuss Fun" (which is odd in that the title suggested that it's some kind of sequel to Screamer which was published in Germany as "Bleifuss") and was incredibly popular there. Whenever I meet a German gamer who's about my age - they all know and love that game, so I bet there is a large group of people who would love to see it on GOG. I'm afraid though that many of them won't even notice that it's available on GOG considering that they don't know the original title (I myself never knew the original title of these games until a year ago).
Posted April 17, 2012
I'm happy with this, more price points means more games and more leverage for GoG to deal with license holders and publishers and I look forward for newer games.

But I do wonder about how will GoG deal with current DRM for future releases, DRM like steamworks and GFWL, are they removable? I know GFWL is, as I removed it painlessly in FO3 using a mod but that brings a great challenge for GoG to overcome.

I for one would't mind GFWL as it never bothered me, but I used it in mostly SP games FO3, Batman: AA... The only MP game that comes to mind is Gears of War and again, it never bothered me, now Halo 1 and 2 have a shity install limit that makes me phone to microsoft every 2 years or so(because of different hardware or formatting), but I think that's not related to GFWL actually.

Is there an install limit on GFWL games?
Posted April 17, 2012
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NightK: now Halo 1 and 2 have a shity install limit that makes me phone to microsoft every 2 years or so
I don't know about Halo 2, but Halo: CE doesn't have any install limit.

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NightK: Is there an install limit on GFWL games?
It's not GfWL that makes a game with limited installs, but if the publisher/developer decides to implement install limits, they will do as such. So it depends of the game. Some have it, some don't.

P.S: Speaking of the site's new layout, is there a way to see which games did I vote for on the community wishlist?
Posted April 17, 2012
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NightK: now Halo 1 and 2 have a shity install limit that makes me phone to microsoft every 2 years or so
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Alexrd: I don't know about Halo 2, but Halo: CE doesn't have any install limit.

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NightK: Is there an install limit on GFWL games?
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Alexrd: It's not GfWL that makes a game with limited installs, but if the publisher/developer decides to implement install limits, they will do as such. So it depends of the game. Some have it, some don't.

P.S: Speaking of the site's new layout, is there a way to see which games did I vote for on the community wishlist?
No there isn't, but there is a wish for it: http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/ability_to_see_all_the_games_features_i_voted_for_grouped_in_one_list

And you're right, I had Halo 1 for the original xbox, the one that has me phone every few years is Halo 2.

So if you're right and DRM measures are only enforced by the publisher then GFWL can be mostly ignored, and can be included in GOGs releases since it's mostly a cd-key protection for MP gameplay just like two worlds and many other current GOG releases?
Posted April 17, 2012
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NightK: So if you're right and DRM measures are only enforced by the publisher then GFWL can be mostly ignored, and can be included in GOGs releases since it's mostly a cd-key protection for MP gameplay just like two worlds and many other current GOG releases?
No. GfWL can work as DRM if the publisher/developer wishes to. Not all games with GfWL require online activation, but those who do, have it as DRM. If GOG wants to release a game with GfWL, they need to remove it (along with every other protection) in order for it to be DRM free.

P.S: Thanks for the wish link.
Post edited April 17, 2012 by Alexrd
Posted April 17, 2012
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supersabre: And old classic racing game called Ignition
Dont know how popular or how many even know that game, but for me all those i mentioned here would be day one purchases! ^^
Are u kidding me? Ignition - best.racer.ever.
I had so much fun with this game it's not even funny.
Afaik it was incredibly popular, at least in Europe, simply don't understand why nobody's made anything like this since.

And the new web design is a bit slower but great. I like it a lot. Good work.
Posted April 18, 2012
GOG.com needs to stay DRM free or it will just be another SecurSteam site. If you like DRM and want games with it on it go to SecurSteam don't try to ruin GOG.com
Posted April 18, 2012
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FlyByU: GOG.com needs to stay DRM free or it will just be another SecurSteam site. If you like DRM and want games with it on it go to SecurSteam don't try to ruin GOG.com
I was just talking about MP functionality, GFWL in most cases isn't DRM(at least not anymore DRM than Two Worlds MP has) and without it some games would't have MP working. What I was getting at is that I'd love to see some GFWL games on GoG not GFWL service but I had to bring up that without GFWL MP would't work on some titles.~

Allowing GFWL on GoG games would maintain the service DRM-free and open up a larger game catologue for GoG. It's just a matter of ridding the games of on-line activation and securom kind of DRM.
Post edited April 18, 2012 by NightK
Posted April 18, 2012
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FlyByU: GOG.com needs to stay DRM free or it will just be another SecurSteam site. If you like DRM and want games with it on it go to SecurSteam don't try to ruin GOG.com
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NightK: I was just talking about MP functionality, GFWL in most cases isn't DRM(at least not anymore DRM than Two Worlds MP has) and without it some games would't have MP working. What I was getting at is that I'd love to see some GFWL games on GoG not GFWL service but I had to bring up that without GFWL MP would't work on some titles.~

Allowing GFWL on GoG games would maintain the service DRM-free and open up a larger game catologue for GoG. It's just a matter of ridding the games of on-line activation and securom kind of DRM.
I see. I am not a MP person I do play some but they are strategy and really no need for that stuff most games I play the companies don't worry about it because they know the players buy there games because they like them.
Posted April 18, 2012
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supersabre: And old classic racing game called Ignition
Dont know how popular or how many even know that game, but for me all those i mentioned here would be day one purchases! ^^
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Alesdrobek: Are u kidding me? Ignition - best.racer.ever.
I had so much fun with this game it's not even funny.
Afaik it was incredibly popular, at least in Europe, simply don't understand why nobody's made anything like this since.

And the new web design is a bit slower but great. I like it a lot. Good work.
Not too many people seem to talk about it actually anymore or even mention it. Thats why i brought it up here on GOG, and happy too see that it is actually well know game. :P Had so much fun with in splitscreen MP mode with my brother & friends in this game.

School bus ftw! =)
Posted April 21, 2012
Well i like the idea of adding newer games. But it would be better if there were 2 categories,
1:New games
2:good old games

So it wont be a big mix of new games and old games.

But of course this is something that GoG will already add if i am correct.
Post edited April 21, 2012 by freppe98
Posted April 21, 2012
Like where you are going with GoG.com.
Steam just moved into the garbage can. DRM free, free exclusive goodies, great download speed and great prices... GoG has a great future!
Posted April 24, 2012
These plans do sound good... but:

as I see it, this is only going to work with independent developers. EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, etc. will certainly not accept the "No-DRM"-condition.

So Games like Kingdoms of Amalur, Battlefield 3, Diablo 3 - all those so called AAA-games - will never be available on GoG.com

However, maybe Bethesda (Skyrim, Rage) oder Codemasters (Dirt, F1) go without 3rd-party-drm?

In the end, what matters for me, ist that "No-DRM" is not getting changed just to have some "big" games.
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