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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 November 18, 2011
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farlark: Undoubtedly, the effect will be far reaching; growth of the classics library will surely suffer in the coming months and years.
I think you've confused "undoubtedly" with "possibly" :)

Things might be as you say. But the alternative (which I find at least as likely) has also been brought up: if GOG can expand and make more money and have more impact on the gaming market, they can hire more people and negotiate more deals with publishers. This could mean more old games, not less.

On a slightly separate note, there is something I've been thinking about a lot regarding GOG growing.

Most people here are here because of a handful of different things. A wish for DRM-free games. A longing for an era of games where gameplay and story was often more important than graphics. Low, fair prices. Certain gameplay elements that have gone out of style. Things like that.

Now I think that there are still plenty of good new games being released. But even if there aren't, an expansion of GOG and its principles can only be good for lovers of good old games and drm-free fair sales. Big publishers like EA and Ubisoft don't do generic cookie cutter games and oppressive drm because they are evil - it's because they feel that they make more money that way. But the bigger and more noticeable a group like the GOG-crowd gets, the more it sends them a message that people will buy games if they offer what we want.

If we can show them that there is a profit to be had in bringing back some of the good elements from the past and dropping some of the bad elements from the present, then we can have more good new games along with good old games. That can only be a good thing.
Posted November 18, 2011
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Zabinatrix: the alternative (which I find at least as likely) has also been brought up: if GOG can expand and make more money and have more impact on the gaming market, they can hire more people and negotiate more deals with publishers. This could mean more old games, not less.
Is it a crazy idea for them to even consider the possibility of buying the rights to System Shock? They would be hailed as heroes. :)
Posted November 18, 2011
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alexgieg: Sooo, when are you adding Carpe Fulgur's Recettear and Chantelise for me to purchase all over again? :-)

Also, I hope you add some social features to the site. I'd love to be able to expose my shelf to friends,
Posted November 18, 2011
I never buy any game more expensive than $10, coupled with the fact that I'm mostly interested in old games, which we will now see released at an even slower pace, I can only comment that I will spend less money on GOG.

I love you guys, but sorry :(

Hope this works out for you, though!
Posted November 18, 2011
Since GOG is having plans for the future, is there any way that they could get a US credit card processor? I mean, every time I buy a game on here, I get hit with a Foreign Transaction Fee of about 2%.

I know it's not a big concern, but it's a little bit of a pain to be dinged for extra on my purchases.
Posted November 18, 2011
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iuliand: I hope that selling newer games will give GOG more power of negotiation in obtaining older gems lost in time.
Please GOG, don't forget from where you started and who supported you in the first place. Don't neglect old game releases. I would hate to see that happening.
This. GOG is my main site for buying games when I can't get them in the box or it's too damned expensive to go that route. I have no problem with their plans to add newer games as long as they stick to selling DRM-free games at fair prices and keep after publishers like Lucas Arts.
Posted November 18, 2011
Amazing news. I am curious about the results of the recent survey too.
Posted November 18, 2011
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Fifeldor: I am wondering whether this decision means you will accept every publisher who wants you to release their games, and you end up releasing atrocities and games that generally suck.
Given the expense and effort in signing and preparing a game, I'm pretty sure we're not going to take the "shovelware" approach to game releases.
Posted November 18, 2011
I just hope they don't accept every new game publishers toss to them. We've seen some Stinky Old Games on this site already, I'd like to avoid any New ones.

Edit: Ninjaed by the blues :)
Post edited November 18, 2011 by kalirion
Posted November 18, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: Given the expense and effort in signing and preparing a game, I'm pretty sure we're not going to take the "shovelware" approach to game releases.
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.... what about that soccer game ?
Posted November 18, 2011
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Zardus: Just rolling the patches into the game installer (with the option for a separate download still existing, of course) would be cool -- then at least you only have to store one file (or redownload one file for a fully patched reinstall).
We've actually done that with The Witcher 2; we just didn't keep up with the patch cycle initially and intead waited until the updating process had slowed down. I believe you get version 2.0 direct from the download now. ;)
Posted November 18, 2011
can I buy the modurn werfare3 game limnited edision that gives me free access to pay DLC after 1 years and premium review of my kills ok
Posted November 18, 2011
Good luck in the New Year!

Keep the games DRM-free above all. Keep the games reasonably priced. Just keep doing what your doing and all should be well. If you start to get evil we will let you know.
Posted November 18, 2011
This seems like a mistake to me.

GOG is about to enter a crowded market - a VERY crowded market. They're going to be competing with Steam, Impulse/GameStop, Direct2Drive, Green Man Gaming, Games for Windows Live, and probably a few others that aren't coming to mind right now. And I'm not sure what's going to set them apart. I don't think GOG is going to compete on pricing, because from my experience NOBODY competes with Steam on pricing (unless GOG begins having 75% off sales at every major holiday). While the lack of DRM is nice, I'm not sure that that's going to be enough to sway most gamers. Yeah, Steam is a form of DRM, but it's not obtrusive and (at least personally) it's never caused me significant problems or kept me from playing a game when I want to. And, as pointed out by other posters, the automatic updates for newer titles like The Witcher is something GOG flat-out CAN'T do right now, but that the other services do offer.

The bigger problem is that GOG had a niche, a unique one. A lot of the titles on GOG simply aren't available anywhere else, and that's why I keep checking into the site. I don't have a huge collection here because I'm fresh out of college and broke, but when I see a title like Rayman that I grew up with and that isn't available anywhere else, I'm more than happy to buy it. I think there's a good chance that that focus will be lost by expanding the title selection, and that's only going to hurt the site in the long run.
Posted November 18, 2011
Anything DRM-free gets a +1 in my world. GOG FTW!
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