How nice it would be if GOG did with Descent what it's done with some other select titles and become the publisher themselves. That would cut Interplay out of the loop, the rightsholders could get their just payment, and GOG could lock down another classic property.

That's a great idea. :)

But I'm afraid GOG would have to pry it from Interplay's cold, dead hands...

i joined in sep 2014 if i remember it correctly... i had no games so i bought a game every day in the first 3 months, and more during the winter sales, so i have almost if not all games i like and can play.
During the last 5 months i havent been able to purchase much games, because there are few games i really like, many games have arrived , but most of it isn't my style,i;m still hoping a very large amount of real good old games will arrive soon, but i have my doubts, i also read that some old games have been removed again from the store.

Anyway, i fear that in a few years the publishers might withdraw all good old games , which would leave us with the average or very weak new games (2012- till now), its a good thing a few of these new games were okay, i have some
like punch club, annas quest, skyshines bedlam, all wadjet eye games ofcourse and any games like the ones i mentioned before.
Still there's lots of games that imho can't live up to the standard the good old classic games had, the wierd game with pineapples, lots of other vector (illustrator like) games , with weird heads cant exactly be called good games imho.
What we need is a shitload of old good games like all these old games that have been mentioned before but will probably never arrive..... and the sad story is: the games are available on almost any so called abadoned game sites
its funny that noone does something about that and get the good games licenced again, fix them to work under latest windows 7,8,10 and sell them drm free.
i guess i be checking once a week now for new games.... normally i look every day on all sites i have accounts if any intresting games were released, sadly its everywhere more of the same new games , that arent my style....

I own 7 of these games :D that are on that page ...
A while back we had so many released eotb, fallout starttrek starwars etc etc etc... all in a short period of time.... this year we have very little, the 'good' thing however is the fact that big old steam also doesnt have many good old games, from the games on my personal wishlist they have about half....



as for the sales i have all the decent games, the rest thats left are 3d, these arent in my collection or on wishlists
there 's also a game that looks like a coloringbook that has been out in the rain cause the colors seem to be 'bleeding' out the image.

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

maybe its a very lowresolution screenshot or a 500% compressed jpg file but that the quality of graphics seems very low.
I checked youtube but the game graphics just seem to be of low quality, funny thing is there seem to be more games like this, seems they were on laserdic as well in the old days.

Looks like I already own them all :(

If Interplay was merely the publisher, the games wouldn't even have to be removed (or at least, they would be coming back pretty quickly, self-published by the developers themselves). The problem is that Interplay owns the games' trademark and audio, so they can't just be cut out of the loop. Even in the unlikely event that Interplay would agree to give up their rights to the trademark and audio, there would still be the matter of the unpaid royalties (which the developers claim to be at least tens of thousands of dollars), which I'm not sure GOG would be willing to pay from their own pockets just for those three games (no matter how awesome/legendary they are) and not even own them.
I'm afraid that only a successful lawsuit against Interplay could bring back the Descent games.

You got all of these? nice, i got the non 3d games and non platform games a long while ago.
Now i am waiting for more point and click games to arrive, i already have all wadjet eye games en kathy rain aswell.

Well thats sounds very serious if that would happen.
I wonder what would happen if many publishers would start to nag about things aswell, and would withdraw most if not all of the good old classic games, leaving only the new games behind (think about 2012-2016 releases, or maybe leave only the last 2 years of new games) that would be a disaster, cause then there would only be good new games?

So Interplay can't sell the game without the rightsholders' permission, and the righsholders can't move it to a new publisher because Interplay own rights on it as well? That's unfortunate. It also puts Interplay in the dog-in-the-manger position, which I imagine they are quite content to occupy.

I don't know that GOG or any other publisher would be liable for revenues owed from previous sales under another publisher. Certainly one imagines that the righsholders might waive those as monies lost if it means restarting the revenue stream. And for that matter they should still be able to litigate against Interplay for monies owed even if they did shift to a new publisher.

It sounds like the course they should pursue anyway, given how long it's been since Interplay has coughed up a paycheck.

Not necessarily obligated, but perhaps it could be one of the conditions imposed by Interplay in exchange for the audio/trademark rights.
1) Have GOG pay the unpaid royalties.
or
2) Have the developers forgo all the owned money.

In the case of 2), I'm not sure if the developers would be content to just give up on 8 years of unpaid royalties, but I don't know the Parallax developers personally, so I can only assume.
Last I heard of them, they're thinking about doing that, but they're probably postponing it to focus on developing Overload.

I would have to think that would be leavened by their current expectation of ever seeing that money from Interplay. If they think they have a chance of recouping that, then it would indeed be in their interest to fight that first before looking to change hands.

Yes, it probably behooves them to focus on one big thing at time. I do hope they are able to get satisfaction eventually on one form or another for their property.

Don't be discouraged. While it's true that some games have been removed from GOG, we're talking along the lines of far less than 1%, and it's important to note a couple of things: 1) most of those games that have been removed have eventually returned (in 7 years, only 28 games still remain off-site), and 2) even once removed, those games remain in your library forever (although GOG might not continue to support them, they do (in my experience) try to address specific problems).

To see a full list, check out List of games removed from GOG.
To see proof that games remain in your library, here are mine, screencapped today.

Indeed. That's what you get when you are impatient and cannot wait.
But at least I can grab the remaining games from the Star Trek bundle at a higher discount now. :)

Yeah, me, I didn't wait. I decided that Interplay just wasn't going to offer them at a higher discount and got burned. :/

In case you weren't aware, Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich is available here again, and the first game is sold here now, as well. :)

Ooh, I wasn't aware. Thanks!!