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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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BreOl72: As far as I`m concerned:

I always took the "old" as the cake, the flat prices as the icing, the goodies as the wipped cream and the DRM-freeness as the cherry on top of that cream.

And if you tell me now , in future, I`m gonna get some "fresh" cakes with said icing, whipped cream and cherries, BESIDE the "old" ones...then good sirs...I`m your man!

Both thumbs up and all the best wishes to you and your plans to take over the internet-gaming-distribution! ;o)
This.

Also, "old" or "new" it doesn't matter GOG, as long as you keep being yourself.
I hope nothing changes in the layout. It's perfect, and much better than steam, to name one.

If it worked for the Witcher 2, it can work for other newer games.

Anyway, it's great news, but please continue to add at least two REAL GOGs on the site per week. The site is becoming so nice with the vast amount of them.
O RLY?
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Titanium: Okay, I thought out a way to go around the whole "old" thing.

Fact: A game enters the arena. It's new.
Some time goes by. Variable x.
Fact2: Game no longer new. Therefore, old.

GOG.COM institutes official site policy: If x reaches anywhere over 1 second, game becomes old.

There we go.
Know that when this happens, I will always buy games here :)
Now, this move is ... eh, somehow not as exciting for me.

I've read the news post, but I still worry that now I might never see old titles here (and there are still plenty of those that I'd like to see DRM-free and Windows XP-7 compatible in GOG) because the focus will be shared between old and new.

Is it realistic to expect that GOG staff will go the extra mile needed to obtain those elusive (for various reasons) game titles such as LucasArts classic adventures, Origin's Bioforge, Clive Barker's Undying, Shadow of the comet etc ) or expansion packs missing from current releases ?

I'd guess there is far more ground to be covered for the new games ,if GOG ultimately aims to be directly competitive to Steam.
As long as keeps the drm-free it's fine by me, besides having classics that "just works®" are prolly the two things that make GOG shine. Though I don't think GOG is actually "competing" with Steam and if it tries... I oversee a bad future.

If they keep the drm-free policy, a client would have to be optional (like having some graceful degradation - nerd joke xD).

I am still missing some love for Linux though! =(
Post edited November 18, 2011 by pablox_cl
There's still so much work to be done in GOG's current library, it's a shame that GOG will be dividing it's attention with the newer games.

A ton of users are still waiting for Windows 7 compatibility issues to be solved (Myst ME being a major example).

And at least one game on this site, Arx Fatalis, is nearly broken, having wasted a $6 purchase for many users.

I'm not saying that releasing newer DRM-free games isn't fantastic; It is. But is GOG's decision to branch out going to affect their ability to deal with already-existing issues?
Expanding is always good.

It will help ensure that GoG will stay around and host my Good Old Games in the upcoming decade. =)
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l0rdtr3k: O RLY?
Yes indeed my dear owl, yes indeed.

Also, change 1 sec to 1 msec. The former figure was about a thousand times too generous.
Post edited November 18, 2011 by Titanium
I can only say that here in Spain there is a company named Fx interactive (don't know if it works in any other country) who brings us cheap, new games with a lot of extras, good translations, and with a single optional activation online to remove all drm(at least as far as I know) and with prices between 10 and 20 euro with a lot of success (atleast their catalogue doesn't stop growing).
So I think gog have taken the logical choice, let's hope they continue with reasonable prices and drm-free games
I subscribe pretty much exactly to the comment in the article... the core reasons I come here are the core beliefs: DRM free, flat pricing, bonus goodies. Keep doing that and release as many games as possible.
This is exciting news for me, there a lot of games that I've been holding off from buying from other services, hoping that one day it will be on GOG. This WILL be an excellent change, if executed properly. I am looking forward to the change!
The Spanish website 3DJuegos also made a little news on the announcement of GOG and its future plans.

3DJuegos article on GOG.com.

At the news. About his future plans, I hope they do very well and follow their principles, they have earned more than one of the distributors of PC games loved by most PC gamers, and never leave the old games , and one day I got System Shock 1 and 2, which is difficult but not impossible, and DRM free games.
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Andremop: I hope nothing changes in the layout. It's perfect, and much better than steam, to name one.

If it worked for the Witcher 2, it can work for other newer games.

Anyway, it's great news, but please continue to add at least two REAL GOGs on the site per week. The site is becoming so nice with the vast amount of them.
^THIS
GOG does indeed stand for Good Old Games. Any new games they add will eventually be old. They will just get aged on GOG instead of somewhere else.

It is good that GOG is still committed to DRM Free. I can honestly say that in the last 12 months, I have purchased more games from GOG than have purchased everywhere else in the last 10 years. DRM drove me away from buying games. It just got to be too much hassle. GOG has brought be back with their DRM Free sales.