There are few good old goodies I would want to the see the light of day sometime like the first Call of Duty along with United Offensive expansion, System Shock 1 & 2, Deus Ex (first), Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge and Morrowind among others. I read somewhere that System Shock and I believe Red Alert (since EA bought Westwood) are under EA's protection or something and they are afraid of GOG's DRM situation, it's a pity they don't understand they would sell better via GOG then their old retail situation even though some might share with friends.

Any other reasons or other companies that are unwillingly to share their games' rights here? :/

Well out of my head I can count EA, Lucasarts and Take-Two as major players that are missing from GOG. For first two, I can count at least extreme paranoia over their IP as reason and wanting DRM to protect it as reason not to be at GOG. EA is also perculiar that they tend to sqeeze their IP's dry then hoard them in huge pile and protect them like angry red dragon no matter what is offered for them.

Obviously there are many other middle and small time developers and publishers out there. For example Paradox Interactive. Don't know why they're not at GOG as every other DD store sells their products, they already sell them DRM free at GamersGate and many of their games would fit GOG catalog both price and age wise.

Here are few problems that may put of devs/publishers from selling their games at GOG:
Games must be allowed to be sold DRM free
Games must be allowed to be World Wide without restrictions
Games must be allowed to be sold for 5.99$ or 9.99$ for everyone everywhere (no 1$=1€ currency scam, no regional pricing, preset price points by GOG).
Games must be allowed to be modified by GOG staff as needed to ensure compatibility with modern Operating systems

Other problems GOG has:
Actually finding who owns the rights to each game and actually locating them (not easy when devs/publishers have gone bust or rights sold several times over)
Locating usable game disks or files when rights owner(s) don't have any stored and stripping any DRM/copy protection from them (in many cases the pre-print DRMless Gold Master disks/files and source code are either lost or unusable)
Making games work on modern Operating Systems (not an easy task in some cases, almost impossible on others)

Interesting attempt to disguise a same-old-same-old beg thread.

You should read the stickies.

Your chart is not very fair: in black there should be only GOOD games (and old, perhaps). The black area would be slightly less large.

Fact:

Games that go GoG immediately get torrented out to the entire universe.

So in most instances you will find that games that go GoG are old games that ran their course already and normally wouldn't sell anyway.

GoG gives companies a random shot at getting a few more bucks for dead software.

With exception of Witcher 2.....that could be messy.


I will say though, from my overview of things.

The only people whom don't pay for software and rely on torrents are a minority.
Usually White Trash adolescents that wouldn't be able to afford the software anyway. *shrugs*

While its not Red Alert 2 or Yuri's Revenge, you can download the first 3 Command and Conquer games for free legally as cd images from http://www.commandandconquer.com/classic The 3 games are Tiberian Sun + Firestorm, Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert. They even give installation instructions (though I'm feeling that your mileage may vary). Not as good as GoG games though since they aren't made to work with modern systems out of the box and such, but they are classics.
Some other companies that have given away their old games for free (in 'as is' condition) are:
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ Rockstar games which are giving away Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2 along with Wild Metel.
Bethesda also made the first two Elder Scroll games free a while ago (http://bethblog.com/index.php/2007/07/20/download-arena/ http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/07/09/daggerfall-now-available-for-free/#) Sadly the given links appear to be dead (guessing they wiped the links when they remade the elderscolls.com site for Skyrim) Maybe someone here knows where they are now legally?

*edit* Seems I found links to download both of the Elder Scolls on cnet:
http://download.cnet.com/The-Elder-Scrolls-Arena-10th-anniversary-full-install/3000-7539_4-10281566.html Arena
http://download.cnet.com/The-Elder-Scrolls-Chapter-II-Daggerfall/3000-8023_4-10964310.html?tag=mncol;1 Daggerfall

So would the red, depending on who you ask. I'm pretty sure it evens out in the end.

EA & Bethesda... That's the problem... Well and GOG policy of keeping games dirt cheap (that IS NOT a problem, just a limiting factor)

I gotta admit, thats funny.

And have been torrented for years already.

True that. Often times GoGs are recovered and polished up abandon ware.

Abandon ware is often times 90's "wArEz!!111!!!!!"

Yeah, I can see greedy publishers like Ubisoft, EA or Activision being afraid of that but it's still only on old titles which already have been sold out plus torrented. I mean, at least classics like Deus Ex or System Shock I don't really think they have anything to lose. I guess time will tell, hopefully when more publisher accept GOGs terms they will have it easier finding even more.

What happened to Platypus? I heard somewhere that the creator of the game and it's sequel lost the rights to the games to the distributor he sold the games through. Or that he lost the rights to SELL the game through anyone else but that one distributor, which is very nearly the same thing.