1) Several ten thousand Euros.
2) No. Why spend money on games that I have no interest in, and that I would never play anyways?

Not really, because I would be buying hundreds if not thousands of games that I wouldn't like and I wouldn't have time to play. It would be like going into a book shop and buying every single book.

But it's OK. A store should have something for everyone, not everything for someone.

Sorry I havn't been very active on here at all. I have been on GOG for a while and havn't bought anywhere near as many games as I want.

I made this topic because I figured if I did somehow have the *Extra* money to buy all the games I would. I know the price has went up since I asked this since because of the inclusion of new games. I don't have a lot of games on Steam either.

As far as my GOG collection goes, I'm like everyone else and just own games that I've either owned in the past or want to actually play.

I don't really have a huge monthly budget for gaming so I have to spend it on living expenses and such. However I guess this discussion came up because of a conversation with a personal friend who makes a lot of money every year and could probably be just fine spending $60,000 USD or whatever it is to buy every game.

We were talking about it as more of an archival project of sorts where one computer would hold all the games and it would have this HUGE library of GOG games (Via NAS or something) for friends and family. I first thought that it was a crazy idea but at the end I kind of thought that would be kind of awesome to have this huge library of games. It's kind of like the history of pc gaming you know?

One of the big draws to this idea is the DRM free approach. It would allow the owner to buy the games and not have to connect to the internet to "authenticate" the session or whatever and one could have this in a place where there is no internet (Cabin, boat, desert island etc)

I understand each game is technically *licenced* to the purchaser but i don't think there is probably any issue with friends and family playing this huge game library on the "purchasers" pc from time to time. Thanks for doing this!

First off, GOG is not an archive, it’s simply a store making money with the selling point of being drm free. There is no preservation, there is no rosy tinted specs look at it, simply a money making machine.
Secondly, good luck with getting certain games fully offline, some coke to mind are cyberpunk, gwent (both GOGs own parent company who also don’t care too much for drm free), absolver, no man’s sky (possibly), and there are others.

Why go to the effort of typing all that when you could have just typed "Pass me my tinfoil hat!"

EDIT: Whoops, didn't notice this was a necro.

To me, this is not a financial question but a psychological and perhaps even philosophical question.

Even if the price for an all games on GOG bundle was a symbolic price of 1$, I would most likely pass up the offer.

On one hand, the purchase would end my "stop buying games until I have played at least a little bit of every game I already own" clean streak which at present is a personal record of 1940 days of not buying any games.

I did add close to 50 free GOG games to my collection during that time but I've hardly played any of them and they're technically not purchases. Chronicled in this game purchasing addiction therapy thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/official_stop_buying_games_selfhelp_group/page1

If I suddenly had access to every game on GOG, my backlog would increase from a moderate 180 unplayed games to an insurmountable number. Of course, I could treat it like a buffet where you don't need to sample every available dish but in any case it would not improve my life. And certainly not move me away from consuming less and towards producing more.

Also, if I can find anything I want to play in my 180 games backlog then there's no guarantee I'll find anything to play with +3000 games. More choices can't make up for my heart not being in it, and at the moment my heart isn't in gaming. Games feel strangely like a chore so I'm taking a break until I feel the excitement once again.

This would be a tough choice. I'd say $100 for everything (including all DLCs, extras, etc).

Why?

Consider there's enough music you could listen to it every waking moment of your entire life and not hear it all.
There's enough movies made you could watch it every moment since you were born, and not watch them all.
There's enough TV shows in time that you could watch them back-to-back and never watch all the TV series.
There's enough games that you could play every moment of your life and not play them all.
There's enough books, manga and other sources you could read every moment of your life and not read them all.
There's enough porn you could... you know, probably.

So what is the conclusion?

If you could collect/access everything you then have to sift through your own preferences and choose what it is you want to play, watch, listen to and read. In pure quantity we are losers in this regard. But there's also plenty of low quality stuff, so having free access to them doesn't affect it if you never touch it. Access to play/read/watch/listen to content will make it easier to find what you really enjoy and who knows may become it's own utopia of entertainment enjoyment.

But keep in mind even if you had access to everything, you'll probably touch less than 10% of it. When you buy VHS or DVD's, you watch the movie/show, then it goes on the shelf possibly for years before coming back out to be touched again. Games are the same way, you get your particular fix, you play for 20 hours or so, then it gets shelved again. Most games would be for nostalgia, you might install, play 10 minutes and then uninstall, others play 100+ hours. It's a mixed bag.

Ultimately you'd get swamped, burned out, and you'd spend far more time LOOKING for fun games you really want to play, or see a youtube video of a review and be like 'oh that looks fun i'll get it' and the tutorial or other is infuriating enough you don't want to play it before you get to the good parts (Kingdom hearts 2 comes to mind). Much like raw information, there's so much information via wikipedia people stop memorizing information that is useful and instead use the big-brother machine in their pocket to look up whatever they feel like and not learn tons of things they should have learned that their parents learned in school and are less learned and more ignorant because of it because the information is too easy to obtain no one obtains it. At least until it gets memory-holed.

So i guess it would be a double edged sword.

Ukraine War Game Bundle cost 10 bucks and you got 600 games.

I'm surprised no one brought this up yet.

Too bad that 99% of them are junk..

Too bad, that statement is subjective...

Good for you, then.
Luckily for me, Gog has way better titles overall.

Just like game industry. We might get 2-7 decent game per year and the rest are junk.

Pricing aside, I would want the option to choose which games I put in my library, just like what itch.io has done with a couple of its massive bundles. There is only a small percentage of games that would actually interest me, let alone get around to playing. I don't want to bloat my library any more than it currently is.

Quite subjective. I think at least 10 are decent titles when i glanced it through.

And even sub-par games if you used to buy it in say Walmart or other places would sell sub-par games for $5 or $10 only 10-15 years ago. I got a 4-games pack D&D bundle not too unlike what's here for $10 i am sure. If you get 1-2 good title i'm sure the price would have been worth it.

Though a number of the other 'products' look like sprite packs. Nothing bad but not really usable when making a game as it would break any theme you were trying for.
Indeed, you could select several games put it in a category and poof be done. Though how well it informs you of updates, i'm still getting used to.