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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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joshdad: 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?
Nope. Can't guarantee anything. It's only in the last 9 months or so that we've been sticking pretty consistently with 2 releases a week, and last week that didn't end up being the case.

I do not know if we currently intent to release newer games on a separate day or drop them into the current schedule.

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joshdad: I do have a question as well. Will you be offering sales on the newer games?
Yes, we will have sales. I do not know at what discount they will be because we haven't negotiated any sales on newer games yet.

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joshdad: 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.
We are not currently looking at emulation of any platform except DOS. This could always change, but it's not what we're doing at the moment.
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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.
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TheEnigmaticT: I'll be diving in to answer questions in the thread here, so be patient as I work my way down the posts. :P

"Newer games" currently means games in the 1 - 3 year old range. We've said for a year now that we're willing to work with publishers to offer new games on GOG.com if they're willing to release the games in a fashion that makes it a GOG.com release: flat price worldwide, DRM-free, and loads of extra goodies.

Whether any brand-new games will be released in 2012 is something I don't know and can't say.
You mean you can't say whether any brand new non-CD Projekt games - it's already been announced we're getting some more 'in-house' goodies!
Awesome news - great move. As someone from Australia which has some ridiculous prices for games (usually double the US price), GOG's "flat prices worldwide" stance is very much appreciated.

Don't really understand some of the comments whinging about this news.
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rjfigueiredo: Flat worldwide prices? How do you explain Witcher 2 then? Just a bump on the road or a taste of what really happens to "recent game" releases?
Witcher 2 where if you did have to pay more than the $ cost you got more than the difference back in store credit you mean?
Why do you guys want indie games on GOG ? Do you really need a 5th or 7th copy of Trine , World of Goo , Braid . etc. ?
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rjfigueiredo: Flat worldwide prices? How do you explain Witcher 2 then? Just a bump on the road or a taste of what really happens to "recent game" releases?
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wodmarach: Witcher 2 where if you did have to pay more than the $ cost you got more than the difference back in store credit you mean?
Think you are missing the point: with 40$ in the US right now I can buy it, but I need 55$ if I live in Europe, what does store credit matter if I only have 40$?

Edit: flatrate is not store credit
Post edited November 18, 2011 by rjfigueiredo
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ne_zavarj: Why do you guys want indie games on GOG ? Do you really need a 5th or 7th copy of Trine , World of Goo , Braid . etc. ?
Not everyone finds a love for indies at the same time or rate. Many gamers make up their minds or have their first taste after good sales have passed.
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wodmarach: Witcher 2 where if you did have to pay more than the $ cost you got more than the difference back in store credit you mean?
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rjfigueiredo: Think you are missing the point: with 40$ in the US right now I can buy it, but I need 55$ if I live in Europe, what does store credit matter if I only have 40$?

Edit: flatrate is not store credit
umm it's $39.99 everywhere afaik
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ne_zavarj: Why do you guys want indie games on GOG ? Do you really need a 5th or 7th copy of Trine , World of Goo , Braid . etc. ?
There are many, many more indie games than those most famous ones you know :) And again, I think it really fits with the GOG audience - indie games often have some rather old school gameplay, keeping some of the best things from classic games.

And with indie developers there is no big publisher to convince with regards to DRM-free, flat pricing or free extras. Negotiating those things with a small developer seems much easier. And from what I've seen by statements from many indie developers, they definitely tend to support DRM-free releases and flat prices around the world, and I've already seen many of them give away soundtrack and stuff with their games. So it really fits GOG.
Post edited November 18, 2011 by Zabinatrix
Great news! :)
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s45qu4tch: If GOG decides to spin off the new games on a different site it should be called MAGOG.com

Fits the monk theme quite nicely.
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JediEagle: Well, they would probably have problems with that IP. You know, magog..... from Andromeda? Gene Roddenberry? Kevin Sorbo? Hercules? Eh, nevermind ...... :)
As the original terms "Gog" and "Magog" are Biblical, there couldn't really be a claim of copyright infringement unless Good Old Games started using pictures from those shows.
Expected and welcome news if done right. I do hope that you maintain the zeal on aquiring 'new' old games to catalog even after you start adding newer games.

Few questions:

Does this mean you'll start offering new or just newer games?

Will you still offer only 'complete' games or will you also start selling expansions and (puke) DLC? If you start selling expansions, hopefully you make system allowing buyers of base games 'upgrade' their games to more complete versions cheaper.

Could you tell us about your plans for new pricing policy? Will you maintain price categories (6$, 10$, 12$ etc.) or will allow dev's/publisher (more) freedom to set their price?

Have you considered adding game bundles/collections (ie. you sell three games of same series separately but also offer trilogy bundle)?

Will this mean we'll be seeing indies on GOG?

Will this mean another site overhaul?
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ne_zavarj: Why do you guys want indie games on GOG ? Do you really need a 5th or 7th copy of Trine , World of Goo , Braid . etc. ?
I want the old as hell Spiderweb games here. And cheap!
so we won't focus only on PC classics anymore
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ne_zavarj: *disappointed*

Also :
- now more low priced games
- $1 = 1€ crap
- game client

As i see GOG want to became another Steam clone .
Again bitching for the sake of it?
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rjfigueiredo: Think you are missing the point: with 40$ in the US right now I can buy it, but I need 55$ if I live in Europe, what does store credit matter if I only have 40$?

Edit: flatrate is not store credit
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wodmarach: umm it's $39.99 everywhere afaik
I got it when it went on sale before the current permanent price drop.

Edit:note that on seach it shows up as 39.99
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Post edited November 18, 2011 by rjfigueiredo