No, that other thing we do with our hands - using a joystick :P.

https://www.gog.com/game/crusade_in_europe

Old enough for you?

And it is genuinely good.

I'm talking more about what properties / IP they current own and their current net worth. It seems Atari has a net worth like 3-20 million apparently, whereas EA is like 30+ billion or Activision 60+ billion.

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Also we got some older games today, Worms Revolution originally released in 2012.

Yes.

Also most of the true classics from the pre-DRM era are already here, with notable absences like NOLF having known licensing issues. GOG can perform miracles sometimes, look at Blade Runner and Elite Force, but it's hard work. The stuff from the post-DRM era takes the corporations caring enough to bother removing it, and most don't.

The new Worms titles are welcome addittions. The Golf one is a cute, addicive and fun game, and Mayhem was something I wanted for a long time. never plated it, same for Revolution.

But I have hopes for a last set of oldies and extremely oldies for monday. Just an idea: Steam launched a couple of days ago the two M1 Tank titles from Microprose. It should be a great addition. The "modern" one is a dog to run in modern computers...:) Forgive the redundancy :D

Publishers come and go with the passage of time, and ownership of the IP may change with time, especially if the original publisher has closed its doors. Needless to say, this will required a bit of work to find and contact the current IP owner.

Another obstacle is getting the owner to agree to publish the game on GOG. If history is any indication, many of the bigger publishers are not onboard with a DRM-free platform.

Who cares about "good" old games, when they should aquire the greatest old game ever released:

Dink Smallwood (͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°)

It's freeware so I'm surprised it's not on gog already. It's still available on it's own official website & even has a load of extra scenarios etc if I remember rightly (not played it in over a decade!)

I remain baffled whenever anyone praises that game...

But about freeware, GOG doesn't tend to like bringing free titles (odd thing to say when they just added one, but talking in general), so being available as freeware may count against a game's chances of ending up here.

And yeah, the "D-Mods" are over here (should be fine to link to that?).

I generally agree with the original post and do notice the lackluster release schedule put out on GOG over the past several years. That said, sometimes it helps to look up a list or video of a genre you like and see if any of the older games that look good happen to be on GOG. I have discovered, to my surprise, that some games that look good which I was otherwise unaware of were on here like Knights and Merchants.

I miss JMich's charts. One could refer to them as sometimes perception and reality dont quite match.

Yep definitely a disconnect between reality and perception, the title of this thread.

There are plenty of Good Old Games here, and they tend to come in waves, certainly the years I have been here.

Of course, in the early years of GOG, there was a lot more Good Old Games to get. And one imagines that GOG got those with the least degree of difficulty in acquiring, first.

You can't really go by numbers on the community wishlists, and Skyrim is a perfect example of that. Skyrim should have been here years ago, if it was just about numbers.

GOG I believe are often between a rock and a hard place when it comes to getting good old games.

And sometimes they truly amaze us with what they get.
And no denying we are sometimes amazed at what they don't .... WWII GI I am looking at you.

I think a lot of it stems from how rare it was for retail (albeit limited release) games to become freeware back then.
I remember being a kid with very limited funds downloading it for Windows 98 from underdogs & being impressed vs all the other freeware stuff back then. Dink is very much a product of its time though, dfficulty was similar to comparable rpgs of the time, along with the lack of direction; it may have aged poorly for people who didn't experience it back then but then so have most from that period IMO (even the heavy hitters like Baldur's Gate).

You have no equipment, just being able to equip a single item out of the inventory, and there are just a few different items in the game anyway, and a few types of enemies, a few spells (just two being actually useful in combat, and one of those being a secret), and the enemies have basically no AI or pathfinding. Take a random RPG Maker game and it beats that by a huge margin, admittedly being turn based and not real time.
Ah well...
Oh, and I believe that before the HD version you couldn't even save wherever you wanted, right?

Freeware doesn't mean that GOG is allowed to "sell it" on its store, even for free.For ex. " for instance, the license may be "free for private, non-commercial use" only" (wiki) and " the author of freeware usually restricts the rights of the user to use, copy, distribute, modify, make derivative works" (I see a GOG installer as a derivative work).