stevenstarar: Would be nice to see a little more of this [old games, good/bad ones] and less of that [indie games, they usually look like freeware apps and have about as much replay value] cause I see the request section is fulla stuff I'd burn my money on. Hell, even a nice AGI KQ4 for my existing purchase or something to tide me through.
Every now and then someone posts a thread like this however the fact is that GOG releases old games just as frequently as they ever have. JMich occasionally posts statistics which I believe he has pulled from the GOG game release notices over time and the age of the game being released at that point. Don't have a link handy (search the forums), but it clearly shows that GOG still releases old games on a regular basis that has not declined and if anything has increased over time. Ultimately though, they aren't sitting on a huge cache of old games they're able to release and just not doing so. They release old games when they're able to track them down and obtain the necessary contracts/license agreements to do so and ultimately it is not up to them but up to the developers of the old games who own the license rights.
I'm not a big fan of the majority of indie games being developed these days either, and it seems like there is a steady and increasing stream of them being made. Most of those show up on Steam or other sites that specialize in them but GOG gets their fair share here too.
The thing is though, if anyone - myself included - aren't interested in indie games or any other type of game, the solution isn't for GOG to stop selling them, because they make good money selling them or they would not even offer them to begin with. The solution to "too many indie games" is for people that don't want to play them (like me), to not buy them and to ignore that they even exist.
It isn't a matter of GOG shipping old games *or* indie games, they ship both, and they're not releasing new indie games while simultaneously holding back releasing an old game. So releasing indie games here has zero impact on whether or not we see old games. The only things that determine whether we'll see a particular old game released here is whether GOG and the publisher that owns the games and any other rights owners that might be involved in the negotiations have been in contact with each other to work on making it happen and whether it is even legally possible or not for a given game due to the complex ownership issues and availability of the game code and other materials.
In short, releasing indie games here has no impact on the release of old games and people such as ourselves that don't really want to see indie games can simply close our eyes, or avert our gaze elsewhere so others who do want them can also get what they want.
Just wait too, 10 years from now all these indie games will be considered "old games" too. :)
