Quite so. Soundtracks in particular have been bandied about on the forums before, and seem like a natural fit. My biggest concern about the future viability of the DRM-free movie product line is that we are even less likely to get AAA content there then we are games. There are basically six major media conglomerates, each of which jealously guards its assets and controls how they are distributed. I would be surprised if even one-tenth of what is showing up on the Movie Wishlist here would ever be in play.

I am willing to see how it plays out, and hopefully the movie content won't muddle the game content for shoppers. But I remain surprised that this was the new media that GOG decided to strike out on first. Here's hoping they prove to be the saavy ones in this case.

I actually hope GOG does expand into other avenues, I think this will help them prosper.
I have no optimisim, however, looking at the initial releases, that I will ever buy a movie from them.
If they were going to get good content, I think they would have started with it to make a splash.


I think books and comics like humble has are a better opportunity, but we shall see I guess.

I agree, and I voted.

Judging by the content, it won't be long for this world. Just let them try something new and show some sympathy when it inevitably fails. Now if they could get some classic movies on here to show the potential it might work, but movies made by people about gaming that I have to pay for to watch, no thanks. If the movies available for free I might try them, but for a fee: not a chance.

The name GOOD OLD GAMES is not really significant anymore, since many of the games here are in fact NEW, or at least not OLD, and there are quite a few that I wouldn't classify as GOOD (but of course that's subjective), so I don't see why having more than just GAMES is so much of a problem.

That said, why should anybody care? If you don't want to buy movies, just don't visit that section.

I have visited the movies tab once, but I don't think it is interesting to me. Now it is just going to lay there and I won't click it again. Not really a hassle, but not an improvement either.

I'm pretty sure it's reasonably well researched and GOG isn't going to budge on that point, at least until the movie business doesn't grow a commensurate AND distinct audience.

Voted!

The current "movie" lineup is far too weak to support a separate site on its own. I'm pretty sure that if they split the games and video content at this point, the video site would go under in no time.

Haven't really looked that much into the Movies, but my first reaction would be NO to moving them to a unique URL. What I'd prefer is that when you click on that "MOVIES" button from within GOG's current domain, it takes you to the gog.com/movies sub-frontpage (for lack of a better term) that's dedicated to the movies portion of the store (just like the front page was for games until the revamp). HEADLINES and prominent switching banners on each "front page" (games and movies) should still cross-promote content, but the rest (bestsellers, New & Coming, On Sale) should feature dedicated content only.


But if they do what you propose, right from the gate, it'll never be - I think that spindown's right, the movies section is too weak to support its own site right now, and it will have a really hard time taking off, especially given the mentality of that industry.
I think that GOG wants to grow into an umbrella store for all sorts of DRM-free digital media (that "expansion of portfolio" mentioned in their annual report), and the addition of movies appears to be the first step into that direction. For it to work, "gog.com" needs to become "your place to go to". I'd rather see them making some tweaks to the way they do it, than trying to get everything under a single domain later down the road - just think of all the bugs and glitches and related threads in the forum! ;-)

Just my 2c.

Probably, but they've backpedaled on bigger changes. Sometimes it seems that their decisions occur in a bubble, and they really don't plan for the ramifications until it goes live.


Sadly true. Honestly if they were going to debut this, they should have waited until they had jaw-dropping content, not a bunch of niche videos that don't even appeal to many gamers, much less other customers.

Imagine if GOG itself had debuted with nothing but a dozen lesser shareware DOS titles. How long would that have lasted? This movie unveiling feels like that to me.


I can live with that, as long as there is clear content segregation. But right now there isn't, in my opinion. Again, I suspect this is because they want to leverage their game-buying audience into a movie-buying audience. If that is their intent, then they should have movies worth buying. (Again, my opinion.)

Understand, I am completely fine with GOG getting into other media. I want to see them grow and succeed, and I want DRM-free to become a more and more market-sustainable concept. I just feel that this particular move was a dud, scattering a bunch of low-quality videos in with their games. Why didn't they start with game soundtracks, which is a more logical progression and prepares customers for the expansion? Or at least hold off until they had movies that made people go "holy cow, this is AWESOME"? Instead the general opinion seems to be "eh, pay for this stuff? no thanks".

As you can tell, I'm unhappy with how this was handled, and am trying to engender a discussion about what they can do to improve it. If my suggestions are too extreme then they can take that into account and temper them with the ideas suggested about others. Right now this change on their part doesn't smell like a success to me, but again, I'm happy to be proved wrong down the road.

Voted!

I agree that movies should be sold on a seperate site.

Movies, ebooks, christmas tree ornaments... I don't care what gog uses at its disposal. Anything to destroy Steam, the feared and ruthless overlords of our beloved galaxy.