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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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DukeNukemForever: 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?
I am also interested in this.
Posted November 18, 2011
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I honestly see only good things in this. It's not like they're stopping any classic games coming, they're just also adding newer games to the mix as well. DRM free version I might add.

There have been plenty of PC games that I've passed up over the years because of the DRM some companies put in them. Getting the chance to purchase those games sounds great to me.

I would like to see one thing added to the site though... a note explaining why a game hasn't made it to GOG yet. Something simple like "Dark Colony - haven't looked into it yet" or "Dark Colony - rights holder not willing to allow at this time", etc, etc.
Posted November 18, 2011
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GOG.com: 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.
Fair enough.

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. ;)
Surely there's a new acronym I can start to use! Somebody mentioned GONG; can I use that officially to help with the mental transition? (I'm somewhat serious. ;) I'm ALMOST going for Good Ol' Games, since that's more slang, as in "boy, those good ol' boys and girls over at GOG have some good ol' games in their catalog!" And James suggested thinking of GOG as just Gog, not an acronym anymore, but I'm against just throwing random syllables together that don't mean anything, like "Hulu."

I think I'll go with "GONG" - "Good Old and New Games". :)
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Vorax: I am still finding the name-thing hard to get over. It's just...

"Adding newer games to the catalog" - please elaborate on this.
I know that feel, bro.
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Posted November 18, 2011
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DukeNukemForever: 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?
This I think is the main reason a lot of people are opposed to GoG expanding their target games for releases. People have a long list of older games they want and 2 a week already has them counting the days - increasing the number of possible games worries many since they feel that the chances of them getting the title(s) they want diminishes.

Hopefully expanded success and game range for GoG increases profit and thus allows for an expanded workforce and increased number of releases per week.
Posted November 18, 2011
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the prices of the new games will going to be the same as the old ones?
aside from that I support these plans
Posted November 18, 2011
You've got my support. 2012 can't come soon enough!
Posted November 18, 2011
Good news! I like it!
Posted November 18, 2011
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swaimiac: 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. :)
exactly.

i really find those objections due to the site's name silly. what about Steam? Valve doesn't only sell SteamWorks titles. what about Origin? most games sold on that platform aren't from Origin Systems.
Posted November 18, 2011
This doesn't seem to be a bad solution for me. If you're still going to add many more classics to your catalogue, it's OK (although when I first heard about Gog.com at about July 2008, I was really excited there'll be a site which will release older games, as you mentioned at your about us page). But is Gog.com going to still add classic games at this rate (2/week, or maybe more)?
I only fear you'll focus on newer games, and we're going to get less old games, one of the main advantages of your site. Of course, I like drm free games too, it's one of your main advantages, and the flat prices, the same prices everywhere in the world too, but one of the main advantage of your site was you're concentrating on old games, which I can't find anywhere. I can find newer games elsewhere.
Posted November 18, 2011
Hmmmm, it's quiet easy to determine if an old game is good, there's been a few years since it was released after all, how do you determine if a new (or unreleased) game is good before you go out and try to add it to GoG?


Anyway I'll be sticking around for your new business model, looking forward to seeing how this works out (fingers crossed).
Posted November 18, 2011
Go GOG!

As long as it's always DRM free, I am happy.

Are there any plans to introduce other emulators other than dosbox? Like say one for the SNES and get licensed games from consoles to work on the PC. Plenty of old classics in the old consoles era.
Posted November 18, 2011
Its a pity gog is focusing more on newer games also. I mean I understand gog is a business and you dont stay in business by sacrificing potential sales, you have to think forward and do whats good financially for the company so it can stay open.

I just personally have no interest in anything newer. Even 90% of games made in the past 10 years will work on my pc and fairly easily found on ebay or amazon. The reason I came to this site was to find classic games I cant find anywhere else, to find those nitche old games and so on. If I want newer stuff I can find them at a hundred different sources. Not to mention I dislike digital content immensely, gog is my only exception to the rule when it comes to these older games.

So I hope your venture pays off and you guys do well gog, but I also hope you dont lose sight of why you originally created this place and forget the folks who made you are what you are.
Posted November 18, 2011
Well, my experience with GOG as been nothing but positive, so I believe this is very good news.
Posted November 18, 2011
Ok, own up. Which of you voted for GoG to release newer games?
Posted November 18, 2011
Probably my biggest concern, as well as that of many others, is that by offering "newer" games, GOG will lose some of it's focus on the classics.
Can one of the GOG moderators GUARANTEE us that there won't be any let down in the amount of classic releases made every week?
As much as I love the whole DRM free aspect of GOG, my biggest reason for being a GOG faithful is of course the classic games that only they release.
If there is no loss of focus on what makes GOG so unique - the classic games, then I think this news is great.
If however, by focusing on newer games, GOG loses some of it's zeal for the classics, I know I will be greatly disappointed, as too will so many of GOG's fan base.
Newer games are great (especially DRM free), but Steam already has that market pretty well covered (minus the DRM part), so please don't lose what makes you different from the rest - keep your focus mainly on the Good OLD Games, If you can do that, AND offer newer games, than we will indeed be happy campers.

I do have a question as well. Will you be offering sales on the newer games? Normally I buy newer games on Steam (or other sites) only when they are on sale at about 75% off. Will GOG be able to match those low prices on the newer games they offer?

Also, you refer to more selection. Is it possible that we might be seeing some games from platforms like the Commodore 64? Personally I would rather see some C-64 classics show up on GOG rather than "newer" PC games that I can find elsewhere.
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