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tfishell: Let me play devil's advocate: why is it important these games come to GOG?
I don't know. Why is important for *any* game to come to GOG?
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tfishell: Let me play devil's advocate: why is it important these games come to GOG?
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yyahoo: I don't know. Why is important for *any* game to come to GOG?
It isn't. Long live the glorious Steam revolution!
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Navagon: You can't know that. In case you haven't been keeping up with current events GOG have just recently signed up Paradox, WB and Disney and have a massive backlog of titles from all three to release. Who says that ND titles aren't simply in the queue somewhere?
Time will tell. Problem is that are not available here now for whatever reason. All people wanting to buy them currently have to use Steam.

I guess that either GOG is too lazy (they would not decline games that are old and half-good) in releasing them or that Tommo stopped working together with GOG. So one of them is the culprit. If the games come in the next weeks GOG will be it, if they come never or much later, probably Tommo is it.
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tfishell: Let me play devil's advocate: why is it important these games come to GOG?
DRM free installers maybe? (And a bit more competition.)
Post edited April 02, 2015 by Trilarion
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tfishell: Let me play devil's advocate: why is it important these games come to GOG?
Think of a unified digital collection as the modern equivalent of the old bookshelf of game boxes. Having a consistent experience (one digital library, similar looking icons, etc.) appeals to the collector even though there's no longer anything physical to collect.
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tfishell: Let me play devil's advocate: why is it important these games come to GOG?
Judging by the forums of these games, it seems that classic games in particular do better on GOG. There seems to be very little interest for them on Steam.

As it stands, I'd bet that we'll see most of these Microprose titles appearing on Bundle Stars in a sim bundle very soon. They've already done two similar bundles:

http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/wayback-bundle/
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/pioneer-bundle/
Post edited April 02, 2015 by jamyskis
Thanks for humoring me. Nice answers. :)
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yyahoo: I don't know. Why is important for *any* game to come to GOG?
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tfishell: It isn't. Long live the glorious Steam revolution!
Indeed! GOG doesn't need any more Microprose classics. They've got plenty of indies to release...

:)
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yyahoo: Edit: In fact, look at the dates. The last GOG release, Challenge of the Realms, was on September 18, 2014. The news release of the Night Dive/Tommo collaboration that Gragar linked is dated October 9, 2014...
Imho, no need to look further than that. Night Dive came into play, and something happened. I initially had thought the flow of games had stopped because of the absence of regional pricing, but it's obviouly that, or not only that.
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Phc7006: Imho, no need to look further than that. Night Dive came into play, and something happened. I initially had thought the flow of games had stopped because of the absence of regional pricing, but it's obviouly that, or not only that.
My suspicion is that Night Dive tried to get on board with Steam, Valve wasn't interested, they cosied up to GOG, Valve suddenly decided there was a market for classic games after all, then Night Dive decided to go all Steam fanboy again and took the "fuck GOG" view.

Either that, or Valve is paying for digital exclusivity. Also a not unlikely prospect.
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jamyskis: Either that, or Valve is paying for digital exclusivity. Also a not unlikely prospect.
This is a very unlikely prospect. There is no reason for Valve to pay for digital exclusivity for PC Games, especially not for such niche games...
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Rincewind81: This is a very unlikely prospect. There is no reason for Valve to pay for digital exclusivity for PC Games, especially not for such niche games...
How is it unlikely? Perhaps Valve simply offers a better cut for games that are exclusively distributed via Steam and as Steam keys? It doesn't necessarily entail that Valve would pay up-front for them.
Post edited April 02, 2015 by jamyskis
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Rincewind81: This is a very unlikely prospect. There is no reason for Valve to pay for digital exclusivity for PC Games, especially not for such niche games...
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jamyskis: How is it unlikely? Perhaps Valve simply offers a better cut for games that are exclusively distributed via Steam and as Steam keys? It doesn't necessarily entail that Valve would pay up-front for them.
Why should they? Every publisher wants to be on Steam. Why should Valve offer one of them (for niche games) a better cut? There are statistics from some indie developers. Even when the game was relased on Steam and GOG and other retailers at the same date, than Steam is making 80-90% of the sales. If you are a seller and you found customers who want to buy for your price - why should you offer them additional discount?
I think you are missing one of the major points here:
1. Gog does all the testing and tweaking, they base their pride on that and probably get some exclusivity for doing so, without taking a bigger cut. But Night Dive, is one of the few (other then DotEMU) that do this by themselves,
2. and they don't always agree to the fixed "oldie" price either, other then being highly steam oriented in terms of Multiplayer and Steamworks.
There is simply too much hassle in moving all parties to agree on everything, all of this while there is so much that is happening back stage on the Gog front that nobody feels the need to pursue it with much effort for the time being.
Also, they may as well just both wait for Galaxy to be finished... ad then release a whole bunch Multiplayer & CrossPlay ready.
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Rincewind81: Why should they?...
Even less competition. Every game that is not on any other service will generate more revenue. Therefore it's a valid business decision to charge publishers higher if they also want to work together with competitors or to give a discount for exclusive contracts.

It might be against competition laws though, but economically it would make sense and is used in other industries as far as I know.

I don't say that is the case here but only that it would be reasonable if it would be the case.
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yyahoo: I disagree with the interpretation of some of your facts. It's okay if we disagree, you know...
All I'm really trying to say here is that the situation is far too unclear at the moment for there to be such certainty as you seemed to have. Like Trilarion says, time will tell. GOG simply have too much on their plate right now (including what now seems to be a resurgence of interest from 1C) for anyone to judge them for what they're not doing.