By my count. that is approximately half of the Movies for Gamers entries being delisted.

Is there much interest in what remains, or will it wither and die too?

GOM is not so popular, both on the side of customers and publishers.
Dunno if something will change someday.
I wonder what ideas GOG has got about this section.
Will it be closed or maybe is there still a chance to make it great?
Community Wishlist is full of good titles, but I can imagine that it would be incredibly hard to bring here something from these ones.

I bought plenty of movies on GOG. Unfortunately the films stopped having discounts on sales and so I was forced to divert my cash towards the discounted games instead of the films.

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.

I'd like to know how that Netflix series about the history of video games fared in terms of popularity. The series was crap by the way :(

Sadly, without proper movies the GOM section is kinda useless.
I doubt the market for indie gaming documentaries is very big..

It's a pity that no big company dared\cared to try it, at least for old b&w movies.

I would of been on board if there were films that I was actually interested in. They couldn't get any major studios to sign up and what a fucking failure that was. Even to the point of not even getting some of the more interesting indie films.

When it comes down to it this was a very half baked effort and probably shouldn't of moved forward with what they had to start with. Even older cult classic movies were off the table for them. There might of been ways to start stronger, but they would of had to hit up owners of foreign film libraries in places such as Italy, Taiwan or Hong Kong to at least get some sort of a start.

GOG trying to save face by saying that it was a selection of films meant for gamers was laughable at best. They could of worked toward proper output just like they did with the games, but they really needed to start with a good handful of films that at least had cult classic status to gain any sort of momentum.

With the advent of streaming in the last few years, GOG movies will slowly fade away with not much of a notice. It was a good idea at the time, they just went about it all wrong and nothing of real substance was added to get people to stand up and take notice.

A few items from my wishlist gone, but I don't care enough to buy them at full price. Oh well.

So almost the entire movie catalog is gone, a pity that there wasn't at least one last sale.

I agree that that ancient decision taken at the suggestion of the community has been unwise, as always by this community, but you are always in time to reconsider. *wink wink*

I don't blame GOG for taking a shot at expanding their profile with movies... it just didn't work out.

I still have a pile of movies in my account... given away for free or those I had to buy in a bundle to get the discount on the games I wanted.

Never watched a single one.

Shame. I wish there were a place to buy download movies, but, sadly, there isn't really. Physical discs take too much space, so I just don't buy any movies.

Never mind, now Gog are no longer worried about being DRM-free they could sell all kinds of films :-/

I'd actually love to be able to buy some DRM-free film downloads. I've bought a couple here but I'm just not interested in documentaries.

I'd kind of point the finger at film studios here - particularly given their past history of screwing over their customer base (film release windows, Macrovision on VHS tapes, regional coding on DVDs, a whole shed-load more DRM on Blu-ray and removing previously paid for digital content). With a track record like that, they're hardly likely to turn over a new leaf and offer their content DRM free.

Streaming may be popular currently, but it has its issues (lack of ownership and lack of privacy) so there is very likely to be a market for DRM-free film downloads. The problem is persuading/coercing/knee-breaking mainstream studios into accepting it.

The writing was on the wall ever since GOG disabled movie-steaming in one of their ever-so-popular site redesigns.

I can't say it's a loss for me. But as always when something is going to be removed, thanks for the heads up.
I would like to buy DRM-free series with Japanese and German audio and subs at a reasonable price, but it's not something I see ever happening.