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General discussion Filmbuff movies being delisted from the catalog(34 posts)(34 posts)
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Posted November 21, 2020
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I would have liked GOG to sell older or niche videos, public domain stuff, and indie videos Things like Them!, Betty Boop cartoons, ect. It was a mis-step to not get deals with smaller folk like Linkara or SF Debris to distribute their video reviews uncut, since their biggest enemy is automated content takedowns.

While it wouldn't pull in big bucks, I think a slow and steady approach would have eventually worked.
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karnak1: But it seems steam also dropped the film business, so I guess the gamer community isn't much into films anyway.
Which is kinda strange. Speaking from my personal experience it seems that most gamers aren't really interested in documentaries or even books about the history of gaming industry.
There are various folks on Youtube that cover gaming history. Some of them are more about the games, while others are centered on the actual hardware.

Amiga Story - Nolstagia Nerd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAuvaAGnqQw]The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux: Part 1 - The Story of Bullfrog - Kim Justice/url]

History of LJN - Gaming Historian

Action 52 - History of the Worst Game ever made! - From Concept to Console
Post edited November 21, 2020 by Sabin_Stargem
Posted November 21, 2020
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Grargar: The writing was on the wall ever since GOG disabled movie-steaming in one of their ever-so-popular site redesigns.
Kind of moot now, since clicking the download link in Firefox automatically plays the video in-browser as the default behavior. Not sure about other browsers, but it's worked that way in FF for the last couple of years. (I assume this is a browser feature, and not something GOG fixed.)
I think breaking or disabling their site's built-in support for streaming films and then never fixing it should be taken as a sign of just how unprofitable the whole thing already was for them by that time, rather than a reason why it became so.

I think one of the big problems with their DRM-free movies endeavor was that, for Good Old Games, CDP could draw on their knowledge, years of experience, and connections and past partnerships in the video games industry to bring publishers and other rights-holders around; whereas they would have had no such advantages in trying to convince movie studios to take them seriously.
Posted November 22, 2020
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HunchBluntley: Kind of moot now, since clicking the download link in Firefox automatically plays the video in-browser as the default behavior. Not sure about other browsers, but it's worked that way in FF for the last couple of years. (I assume this is a browser feature, and not something GOG fixed.)
I think breaking or disabling their site's built-in support for streaming films and then never fixing it should be taken as a sign of just how unprofitable the whole thing already was for them by that time, rather than a reason why it became so.
Yup, seems to be a browser thing.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if either scenario was correct.
Posted November 22, 2020
And hereupon is my reminder that we even had movies on GOG.

As other said, I'm baffled that GOG didn't go after the public domain and content creators instead of aiming for obscure documentaries about subjects which are so niche as to fail to garner interest.
Posted November 24, 2020
Thanks for the warning. GOG movies is dead anyhow, so it's no surprise that it withers. But still, a warning in advance is nice to have.
Posted November 24, 2020
There are a lot of good gaming documentaries out there still... at this point I can only see this going in a positive direction if GOG spins the movie section into mostly a freebie/collaboration kind of thing, building a wider catalog of gaming documentaries either offered as downloads when possible or external links.
Posted November 24, 2020
Just get rid of the whole section and if there happens to be "movie" like Making of Kingdom Come Sword fighting (Which is the only thing listed as a movie in my account) it couls just be directly added as a goodie.

These movies are abominations and no one will miss them.
Posted November 26, 2020
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Crisco1492: A few items from my wishlist gone, but I don't care enough to buy them at full price. Oh well.
Same. One of these movies is on my wishlist, just waiting for sale. And if a sale would have happened, I may have bought some more. But the sale never came.
Posted November 28, 2020
Maybe if Filmbuff had joined the Black Friday sale and put a 90% discount on everything as a goodbye gift, they might have made a few bucks at the end of the day. I was always moderately curious about Rewind This!, but not $5 moderately curious and since these things never ever got a reasonable discount, they kind of shovelled their own grave.

The gog movie section isn't dying, it was stillborn to begin with.
Posted November 28, 2020
GoG sold movies?
Posted November 28, 2020
Gonna try to get the Tetris and Japanese arcade movies before it's removal. I had a feeling when the rest of these movies would have been removed. All the Gamers series has already been removed. Thank god I Got the first one of the series <3
I got 3 days left to come up with some money before then. -_-
Post edited November 28, 2020 by DreamedArtist
Posted November 28, 2020
Gog should have tried selling those old random movies that you might find in the bargain bin of a store to start off with.
Posted November 29, 2020
get the Postal movie here
Posted November 29, 2020
I think the Movie section needs to be realigned to be a hosting platform for more independent maker-type films.

I've bought a bunch of stuff there, most notably the whole dead ale wives D&D series because I remembered it from back in the day, but also stuff like the orchestra of the witcher music..

I think even freely available things like Kung Fury and Astartes, or movies of music things like Rob Hubbard's 8-bit Symphony and Machinae Supremacy's Assembly gigs could be put on here and sold for a small fee by their creators to allow fans to show their appreciation and for the creators to have a stable long-term supportive platform to make their stuff available, kinda like how Bandcamp is doing for music.
Posted November 29, 2020
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Cyker: I think the Movie section needs to be realigned to be a hosting platform for more independent maker-type films.

I've bought a bunch of stuff there, most notably the whole dead ale wives D&D series because I remembered it from back in the day, but also stuff like the orchestra of the witcher music..

I think even freely available things like Kung Fury and Astartes, or movies of music things like Rob Hubbard's 8-bit Symphony and Machinae Supremacy's Assembly gigs could be put on here and sold for a small fee by their creators to allow fans to show their appreciation and for the creators to have a stable long-term supportive platform to make their stuff available, kinda like how Bandcamp is doing for music.
Anything working with others' IP, like Astartes, would have to get permission to charge a fee from the IP owner. They're not going to get permission from the IP owner. And even if hosted & distributed for free, IP owners would be likely to go after GoG over it even if it was technically legal.
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