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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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axakovec: Good day, GOG members

I just decided to look at this site of yours and i was surprised pleasantly- I found some of the games from my chieldhood, games that I respect, love and enjoy- Sanitarium, Thief, Arcanium. At least those were the ones that cought my eye. Im going to buy them soon, but I want to ask- do the developers get any of the money I will give for this games? Because as far as I know the studio that created Sanitarium does not exist from a long time...

Have a nice day :)

Sorry if I didnt posted where i was supposted to.
Their are about four or so free games on GoG, but as for companies that no longer exist, they are taken over by bigger companies who now own the license.
Hello, I actually like the idea that GOG is planning to add new games along with old ones. What attracted me here was the low price and having no DRM. :)
What do people like about DRM free?
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axakovec: What do people like about DRM free?
What do you not like about it?
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axakovec: What do people like about DRM free?
+The game keeps on working when the online authentication server is taken down.
+The game has less compatibility issues, bugs, and crashes (DRM causes many of those)
+You are not treated as a thief.
+DRM does nothing to stop pirates, only hurts people who buy the game.
+The game does not need to be reinstalled if you reinstalled windows (and the game was installed on a separate partition or you did not reformat as part of the reinstall).
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axakovec: What do people like about DRM free?
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taltamir: +The game keeps on working when the online authentication server is taken down.
+The game has less compatibility issues, bugs, and crashes (DRM causes many of those)
+You are not treated as a thief.
+DRM does nothing to stop pirates, only hurts people who buy the game.
+The game does not need to be reinstalled if you reinstalled windows (and the game was installed on a separate partition or you did not reformat as part of the reinstall).
The last point is not entirely true. It could be true, but there are lots of reasons a game will not work unless properly installed onto a system. There are various registry entries it may make which do not translate to moved installs or new OS installs.
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axakovec: What do people like about DRM free?
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the_bard: What do you not like about it?
echo
Post edited March 12, 2012 by gooberking
As long as old games stay up and keep coming in addition to the new titles, I don't see a problem here.
So, when are the new games coming?
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Trilarion: So, when are the new games coming?
http://www.gog.com/en/news/new_release_cryostasis_the_sleep_of_reason
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Trilarion: So, when are the new games coming?
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spindown: http://www.gog.com/en/news/new_release_cryostasis_the_sleep_of_reason
Ah, I ignored it because I wasn't interested in the genre.
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taltamir: +The game keeps on working when the online authentication server is taken down.
+The game has less compatibility issues, bugs, and crashes (DRM causes many of those)
+You are not treated as a thief.
+DRM does nothing to stop pirates, only hurts people who buy the game.
+The game does not need to be reinstalled if you reinstalled windows (and the game was installed on a separate partition or you did not reformat as part of the reinstall).
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gooberking: The last point is not entirely true. It could be true, but there are lots of reasons a game will not work unless properly installed onto a system. There are various registry entries it may make which do not translate to moved installs or new OS installs.
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the_bard: What do you not like about it?
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gooberking: echo
Well I will answer you what I like in steam particulary, because its the only one im using offen. I like that it keeps stats of your progress, even if you reinstall or download the game on other computer you will have all yours saves and stats. I like the achievmant feature, many games dotn have it, but steam adds such in nearly all games they sell. I like the community, the screenshot fearture and most of all- my library with all my games and stats.
Post edited March 14, 2012 by axakovec
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Trilarion: Ah, I ignored it because I wasn't interested in the genre.
I actually wouldn't count that towards this discussion as GOG had already added a good few 3-year old games to its catalog before they even had that survey.
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gooberking: The last point is not entirely true. It could be true, but there are lots of reasons a game will not work unless properly installed onto a system. There are various registry entries it may make which do not translate to moved installs or new OS installs.


echo
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axakovec: Well I will answer you what I like in steam particulary, because its the only one im using offen. I like that it keeps stats of your progress, even if you reinstall or download the game on other computer you will have all yours saves and stats. I like the achievmant feature, many games dotn have it, but steam adds such in nearly all games they sell. I like the community, the screenshot fearture and most of all- my library with all my games and stats.
All those things are fine, but none of them require DRM's existence, but are features built into a service that uses various DRM solutions as a part of said service. It would be quite possible for a company to provide all those things AND provide truly DRM-free games in at least some of their catalog.

If you could have all of those things at your convenience, minus any of the technical dependencies/hangups that can come with DRM, would that be more or less attractive to you?
There are still so many good *old* games that deserve to be published. I wish there were more games from the mid-90's. I'd rather want to see GOG expand to Mac, Amiga and console classics rather than new games.
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RaggieRags: There are still so many good *old* games that deserve to be published. I wish there were more games from the mid-90's. I'd rather want to see GOG expand to Mac, Amiga and console classics rather than new games.
This. The mid 1990s were an amazing time for video games in general, and there is a ton of stuff from that period that GOG could release. I don't really see why GOG should release games that you can already buy from a bunch of other retailers. DRM free releases of relatively new games are nice, but what I'm really here for is the hard-to-find stuff that no other site is selling.