You guys should change your policy so that when game is released on GOG it can no longer be removed.
You are bigger now than 5 years ago you have the muscle for it.
As it is now, any corporate suit with big ego and tiny dick can screw you and us over....

I do not think GOG have legal power to make an overall policy like that. They have agreements with publishers that allow them to sell games and (presumably) share a portion of the proceeds - they can't always own the intellectual property or permanent rights to it (which would be needed for what you suggest) and when the property moves to a different publisher new agreements would typically have to be made, since the money has to go somewhere else for one thing. I ANAL (am not a lawyer) so I'm not sure just how tricky these contracts can actually get.

This actually happened in the case of Fallout Tactics as you can see here: http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/Fallout_Tactics
Interplay allowed them to sell it for a higher price, but then Interplay's rights expired and as a result so did GOG's. Presumably Bethesda has an agreement with Valve and part of that agreement was to lock out Valve's competitors. It's also possible that they simply haven't worked out a deal with GOG for some other reason. If you want to get angry you should direct that anger (and politely-worded letters) at Bethesda and Valve, but it might be a better idea to ask questions first. I came to the wrong conclusions and had to edit this post after reading up more. It is a pretty boneheaded move; I for one wouldn't buy Fallout3 because of its Steamworks DRM but I would buy it DRM-free. If my best guesses as to why it happened are correct, I wouldn't buy from Valve at all - but it isn't the only reason I have to avoid their store.

GOG could indeed refuse to make any deals except those that transfer permanent rights to GOG to continue selling the games indefinitely (it's possible to make deals like that) but then publishers would be perfectly within their rights not to make agreements like that, which would in turn limit their options to provide games for us. I don't think that's what GOG or you or any other customers want. We'll just have to keep "voting with our wallets" and anticipate that it will take many years yet for the industry to understand how these actions really affect their bottom line.

Edit: Here is a little more background some of you already know, but I didn't: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/12/no-caps-fallout-1-2-and-tactics-free-at-gog/#more-179854

GOG won't remove the games for download from your account page. They will remain available for life (GOG's, not yours ;)). But in general, if you haven't downloaded them yet, it isn't a bad practice to do so and back it up. Things do happen.

:( the new year turning out to be a sad one already , kinda feel the site lost a huge flavor with the fallout games gone , it was one of the first things i saw when i clicked on this site back then.............good memories grr beth...

Thanks a million for the games while they lasted GOG.

Oh and Bethesda? Zenimax? From the bottom of my heart and with all the malice I can muster... fuck. you.

I couldn't agree more that downloading stuff and backing it up is good practice. Downloaded all 3 Fallouts, saved them to another computer, and I'll save them to thumb drive when I get one with more space.

Hell I bought an extra external HDD just to store my GOG installers.

Lol exactly.

Then again i' can't really talk, I never backed up the contacts on my phone for almost ten years, I know I should in case I ever lose my phone I just never have.

heh, maybe I should just do that.

Same here, because I learned the hard way :D

The funny thing is that Fallout 3 is supposed to be DRM-free on Steam (ie. you can run it directly, without running the Steam client.).

Whether that is by accident, I don't know. Some people seem to believe the reason Bethesda doesn't want GOG to sell a couple on old games from the 90s is because they love DRM so much, which would mean that Fallout 3 is DRM-free by accident, and possibly the DRM will be added back to it if Bethesda ever finds out. Who knows.

Or alternatively, Bethesda isn't necessarily that strict about having DRM (hence they feel it is ok if Fallout 3 is being sold DRM-free on Steam), but they simply have a mutual ass-licking agreement with Valve that no Bethesda-games will be sold anywhere, without being connected to Steam. Meaning, even if GOG was ready to add its own DRM to Fallout 1/2/Tactics in order to continue selling it, Bethesda would still refuse.

fallout 3 still has gfwl in it , it does not need steam while launching cause the stupid gfwl client breaks steam when the game opens , when you are into the game it magically connects with steam client again and off . They do say you can avoid gfwl by making a offline profile but gfwl still exists and is part of the game dlc,patch and achievements etc

Well Bethesda would be on my blacklist now, except they are already, so oh well. Glad i managed to pick them up before the removal :D.

This is very unfortunate... =(
I hope GOG can get permission to add those games to its wonderful catalog again.