Seems like they invested heavily into rock drills. ;)

Exactly my thoughts. When we are receiving a newsletter / marketing email every other day during summer sale, I see absolutely no reason or excuse as to why this important piece of info couldn't be easily included in one of them.

Still at least this one came out in advance and during a sale, which is rarely the case with these delistings.

*Pic related*
(change every instance of the word standards to the word clients)

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As I said before(here or elsewhere, I forget which): GOG can only delist on the terms of the IP holder....i.e. if an IP holder said "delist tomorrow and don't tell anyone in any form whatsoever beforehand", then GOG would have to do it.
(not trying to justify it, btw, just explaining one reason why they likely didn't do such things)

Gog, when they were young. Once did notify us. Such as when the Firaxis games were pulled. Why is it when companies grow, big they forget about the little guy (really silly when he/she is their customer).

How long would it take them to e-mail us or is it the cost?

Just sad.

Hopefully this isn't a sign of decline.

And I do hope they sensibly split Gog from CD Projekt, to protect it from the hit and miss of the publishing business.

Finished my rant.

Biggest danger of these digital platforms, the fold, you loose your library unless you have it stored somewhere.

:(

Granddad

As I said in the post above yours, it's up to the rights holder how/if delistings are announced in advance.
(again, not trying to justify it....just explain why it likely happens on GOG as it does)

Actually, on GOG your games are yours forever(while the site/store is in business, I mean).....even if they get delisted.
(extras like manuals are an exception, however....a few extras have been pulled from user's libraries if GOG later found they didn't have the right to put them up)

Bough all of the games being delisted now.
Good thing the summer sale discount was up, not like most of the delisting where there were no discounts and came with a surprise of removal.
Anyway thanks gog team for the heads up for this.

Actually it is enough to visit the forum once per day, everyday.
Also good point, but since i visit here everyday i usually notice the stickied threads say delisting on it.
Unless people are traveling and can't use the internet for some reasons then they can only hope that people bought gift keys for the games and get them like that.
But some real news in the front page wouldn't hurt.
The bigger problem is when the delisting is too soon after the announcement that it will be removed.

remember to consider giving feedback here (credit to wolfsite): https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/Why-are-EA-games-starting-to-get-delisted-from-GOG-com/m-p/10460479#M368977

Sure I'm well aware of this common knowledge and understanding of your standard publisher/ip owner vs seller/provider/distributor relationship. I really am not the one who mixes developers, publishers, providers/middlemen and clients, with their respective obligations, responsibilities, rights, etc.

This case however doesn't seem to fit either of these two conditions: They aren't going to remove them right away but on 28th June, and we were told about it 2 days ago or so. Not the best example of imminent covert removal ever if you ask me, thus it could have easily made its way into the newsletter if there was will, with plenty of time left for gog-ers to do their thing. Maybe it just wasn't deemed important enough for all we know, though it's not all dark and grim - SmollestLight did their best on forums at least and we have the sale still going on.

Other outlets and social media picked this info up and the word is spreading, but it still begs the question as to why not use the power of an old fashioned e-mail/newsletter in such cases where it's not strictly hush-hush nor imminent (suckerpunch-style) delisting.

Do better by informing people in a more timely manner.. Exspecially when other sites usually inform of game delisting in a far more timely manner.. besides while I am not interested in specific games I will scoop em up on G.O.G if I found out a delisting is happening just encase I would later on wanna play em..

To clarify: I was using a covert delisting as an example of what a partner could do....not what is being done in this case.

Also as I said, the rights holder seems to dictate the terms of removal.....if they didn't want GOG announcing in any other way but a thread on the forums(i.e. no news post or newsletter annoucement), then GOG has to do what the rights holder says.

Iam really super socked after have read your comment. People should think that other peope isn't so lucky than them, as I think than other ppl isn't so lucky as me.

1. I have no job since years ago, i can spend only 5€ each month in games.

2. My wishlist is giant. These games haven't never been in my wishlist because RPG isn't my favourite genre and I have never played Syndicate games.

3. As you told, they are classics games and I would like to play them anytime in the future.

4. If GOG don't inform that they will be delisted from their catalog, I would missed to buy those games.

What Firaxis games were pulled?
https://www.gog.com/games?devpub=firaxis_games&page=1&sort=popularity

Oh sorry, thought the topic was delisting of UU1+2 and Syndicate games, not some other previous delisting. You should have said so earlier, we would have saved us some time with these general concepts that are common knowledge. I reckon that others can't read your mind either.

On less serious note though, I like to twist stuff to fit my narrative like any other dude and my imagination is as vivid as any respectable acid user, but can you imagine EA here explicitly requesting GOG something like "Gog listen to me bro, don't let this information slip, alright? You are only allowed to sticky the topic to your own forums - but that's it! Otherwise it's totally a hush-hush nda-style operation, you see!". xD

Dude, please have mercy on me, I have reached my limits here.

What's funny here is that the whole reason these posts are put as sticky is because the community complained that a regular thread would be lost in the sea of all other threads on the forum.... and now people are complaining that sticky threads are not visible - like come on, always gotta find something to complain about?