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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.
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First!

I mean it's great! :)
we won't focus only on PC classics anymore.
iPad classics? Amiga classics?
I am still finding the name-thing hard to get over. It's just...

"Adding newer games to the catalog" - please elaborate on this.
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GOG.com: We are, however, looking to expand the availability window of games on GOG, so we won't focus only on PC classics anymore.
For a moment a small part of me jumped thinking that you meant you were going to start looking at platforms other than PC (eg bringing in well ported console games).

Edit - for those having problems consider this - new games are just Good Old Games waiting to get old - so getting them in sooner means GoG is getting them in advance of the copyright owners splitting/vanishing/subletting/other odd things with copyright - so its actually saving considerable headaches later in time and getting those good old games before they start to go grey ;)
Post edited November 18, 2011 by overread
I've said it in another thread, but I just wanted to add a little to this:
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GOG.com: 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. ;)
There is precedence for companies expanding beyond their charge in their name. For example, GEICO used to stand for Government Employees Insurance COmpany. They now serve the general public, and are quite successful at it. No one questions their name.
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I'm hoping that this also means indie games here. I've expressed all my reasons for why I think a Good Indie Games-section of the site would be a good idea before, but I'll make a brief recap:

In my experience many indie developers are avid gamers who care about the same principles - especially lack of DRM and fair prices worldwide. Many indie developers also make games that are very reminiscent of the old games that are the focus of this site - like old school platform and point and click adventure games.

If you can bring in new big publisher titles with all the stuff we expect from a GOG-release, that's great. But again I think that typical indie titles are often the best fit with the core GOG-audience.
Minor concerns assuaged

I'm OK with this :)
I hope GOG is going to release Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid game in 2012
Okay, question time ;-)

1. Can you say something about the new layout of the site? Are oldies and newies split or shown together?
2. What about the release plan, will be there still 2 oldies + x newies or one oldie and one newie. How many releases you plan each week?
3. With newer games and maybe more releases each week, can we expect more and different sales?
4. What other improvements of the site do you have in mind (forum, multilingual support, shelf, service, etc.)?
5. Is there another big relaunch or will you add the new improvements step by step.
6. When will this all happen? I know someday next year, but can you give a closer timeframe ;-)

Edit: Added multilingual support to question 4 (improvements). And divided question 4 in two questions.
Post edited November 18, 2011 by DukeNukemForever
I just read an article at RPS about this, this is just awesome. :)
Cant wait to see all the new games :) ... Ain't gonna be good for my Bank account tho ... !
Good luck with this GOG ;)
oh no! This means EA is taking over Gog and Gog will be swallowed up by Origin in the end :(
Bravo !

My only question is how soon can we see the new game offerings?
The words "Good Old" are often used to show approval, emphasize reliability or as a general term of endearment, at least in US English parlance. For that reason, selling newer games on a site called GOG does not bother me...

Whatever your guys at GOG can do to increase revenue and keep bringing a steady stream of classics back is fine by me... except raising prices on the classics... that would bother me. :)