I waited to wait until the next flash sale before buying Evil With 1 & 2 instead of paying full price. But with the latest acquisition of Bethesda by Microsoft, I decided not to take any chances and just buy the game outright. A markup of $55 but at least now I know I'll have it forever. I really hope these great hits don't get removed from gog and I don't expect them too. But still better safe than sorry. Here's hoping we will see Doom 2016 soon. Perhaps GOG already have it and are waiting until later this year before making it available for purchase.

Microsoft did say they would leave Zenimax alone but... man, i would hate to see them get pulled here. I don't see any Microsoft titles available at all.

I think im going to double check all my Beth and Id software and buy what i can.

GOG usually warn people when things are getting removed. Sometimes it's very soon before, but better than nothing.

If they're really that important to you I understand; otherwise I'd say ask for a refund and take a chance for the Fall or Winter sale perhaps.

imo pessimism, or at least not getting your hopes up, can be a good thing on the GOG forum (especially not getting your hopes up for big-name publishers to care much about GOG releases ;) Personally I wouldn't expect Doom 2016 but hopefully I'm wrong.

The 30 day refund policy is something that occurred to me. I'll probebably be over it by that point though. Still it's worth keep an eye out.

As for Doom I'm not getting my hopes up too much, but I'd like to think that they secured a deal. Personally I'd like to see Ori and the will of the Wisps get released here.

Microsoft is a very unpredictable company. Sometimes they do good and sometimes they do bad things. What they did to Rareware was unforgivable. But I think they've done with Halo is pretty good all things considered Microsoft is a very unpredictable company. Sometimes they do good and sometimes they do bad things. What they did to Rareware was unforgivable. But I think they've done with Halo is pretty good all things considered

safety first, but it does seem a bit, like stocking toiletpaper in case a disease will take over the country, ' the category all bought by microsoft studio's ' enjoy a certain amount of freedom, or so it seems, still, congratulations with your purchase at least you acquired their last original title because with future game releases the microsoft influence will be there, i'm not sure if this is what happenend to wasteland 3, a lot of reviewers grant the game a high to a very high score while meanwhile all noting something off with different parts of the game, like it is windows 10 or something, a really great product but if only and yet it gets at least a 4,5 out of 5 score

Evil within 2 is a good game, well worth playing. I’m afraid M$ I’ll do what they have always done, FCK up their own software, realise people are going elsewhere and then buy up the elsewhere to maintain their monopoly. They have been doing this since the 80s and have not stopped. Some optimists look at the odd kink that sometimes happens there, but this is because one person in the company does not follow the mandate and does something for the consumer. It’s is however quickly rectified.
The only thing that will happen is:
All beths games removed to be GFWDead only
CDPr gets brought so Witcher and cyberpunk can appear on Xbox only.

CDPr have no power to push M$ to release their games or keep the ones here. Steam perhaps have some leverage being so huge. I doubt epic can compete. So next year it will be interested to see who remains, M$, PS, Nintendo, steam would be my guess (Ubisoft would be ok as well). I suspect we will see a lot more aquisitions as we move into next year and the new consoles launch, the cost of them they have to try to make it worthwhile.

While I am concerned about this whole development, I would still, for the time being, wait for a sale to grab whatever I'm missing. As others have said, if anything gets pulled, GOG will give us a heads up.

The deal won't be finalized before next year so we'll at least get one more Christmas sale before they possibly gets removed.

I think Doom 2016 might eventually end up here, when/if they deem it's old enough and won't get as much revenue on steam f.ex. Besides, Cyberpunk2077 will make GOG's consumer marked more valuable.

That's not actually true, no matter how many others say so. Sometimes GOG announces removals before they happen, and sometimes they don't. There is zero guarantee that they will. And if the publisher tells GOG they aren't allowed to, then they definitely won't.

And moreover, lately GOG has been making removal announcements become invisible to 90% of their forum userbase via putting them in a Sticky thread on this board, which is an absolutely horrible practice that all-but guarantees that most people will never see the removal announcement, since most forum users have become naturally acclimated to automatically ignoring and never looking at any threads that are in the "Sticky" section.

As for the statement "Microsoft said they would leave Zenimax alone"...that statement is absolutely meaningless. They could say that yet still, nevertheless, pull all of the MS-owned games off of GOG as soon as their contracts with GOG expires, and there wouldn't be a darn thing that anyone could do to stop them.

Now you tell me

https://news.microsoft.com/2020/09/21/microsoft-to-acquire-zenimax-media-and-its-game-publisher-bethesda-softworks/


" Microsoft expects the acquisition to close in the second half of fiscal year 2021 and to have minimal impact to non-GAAP operating income in fiscal years 2021 and 2022."

If you mean to say there are no guarantees, then yes, you are right - it still makes it partially true. We've usually had delisting announcements shared by GOG in advance and I'm sure they try to give us as much headroom as possible when they can. The instances where games disappeared from sale over night have not exactly been the norm, but may happen due to legal disputes and the like.

In any case, at this point we're speculating on the handling of a speculated event. My main point was there's really no reason to panic buy anything right now. I would still try to grab whatever I'm missing at the next opportunity, be it a regular sale or a grand sale.

Yeah I know, still I bet after 30 days Evil Within goes on sale for 75% off