Hi guys,

I liked this site as soon as I read an interview where you explain that you're gamers, understand people want a product for a fair price or will otherwise pirate it, and that you're here to provide such a service in a convenient way.

And props to the fact that you convince some seriously great companies to license you the games DRM free.

All of these things have prompted me to send you money for multiple games. Thanks!

However, if your engineers are busy making sure these oldies work on Windows XP/Vista/7, please include the extras. And by extras I mean if you are going to engineer it, engineer it to work with current resolutions. If that is not allowed, obtain those rights. I appreciate the fact that I am only paying 2-10 bucks for the stuff, but I still demand - and I believe appropriately - that I don't pay to download a package that I then have to download unofficial patches for, strap resolution hacks to, etc.

The reason I write this is because most of the games I've downloaded and paid for - at least 4 or 5 - I have to that very thing. Google for the patch and mods, download, install in some obscure way, tinker, and then it works. Well, why? Part of the purpose, in my opinion, is to be able to download a good old game that work great with the current system. Just hacking it isn't enough.

After all, I already own most of the games I've bought on CD-ROM, and it's more of a pain in the ass for me to install them and get them to work then pay 5-10 bucks. But if you don't put a bit of extra effort into upgrading resolutions and what not, I may at some point decide, what's the point?

And so will many others.

Just a thought.

Unofficial being the key word there. GoG fixes the games to work as they originally worked, nothing more.

You do realise the GOG staff has no access to game source codes and in most cases source code no longer exists. You do also realise that creating the patches that fan community is doing involve years of reverse engineering and disassebly making it commercially unfeastible for GOG to reproduce even if they were allowed to do it (they'd have to hire several proffesionals to work on each game for several years in order to get them to state you're demanding and cost them hundreds of thousands to millions). Would you be willing to pay 20-40$ for these 'upgraded' games? I think not. And even if you were, most of us wouldn't (heck some people here even prefer to use the 'vanilla' versions over the modded ones).

GOG provides cheap old game classics in convenient DRM free installers with some compatibility tweaks applied, sometime throwing in extras they manage to get rights to. If that's not enough for you, then you're in wrong place. Most of us are quite happy with the products GOG povides as is (most complaints are about quality of customer service and problems with site/forums).

If you want game upgrades you should go bugger the original devs (that exist) to convince them to make remastered versions of their old games (I'm sure that if you cover the development cost, they'd be more than happy to do it ;-)). GOG has neither the rights nor the resources to perform such upgrades.

To the OP, they fix the games up so they will run on modern systems. Not including X resolution hack doesn't mean the game won't run. Apart from the fact they're probably not allowed to include unofficial patches and hacks, those higher resolutions were never part of the original game experience. For 2D games, increasing the resolution often changes the gameplay by increasing the viewing distance and changing the interface. Who said you had to download the unofficial patches and resolution hacks? Would the game not run after install or are you just whining about your huuuuuuueg monitor's resolution not being supported (apologies if that's not the case).



TL;DR, higher resolutions are not part of the original game and making the games work on modern systems does not include resolution hacks.

p.s. I hope this doesn't put you off sticking around. Uh... I think maybe you mean bug. Bugger means to sodomise... ;D

And the sound, oh Christ! They need to redo all the sounds and music, too. Some of that stuff was made when lower quality was the norm, well it isn't now. Also put in better control configuration, especially gamepad support for everything.

No, I'm not serious ;)

I want WSAD control for Fallout 1 and 2! Oh wait, someone really did want that...

Since I paid for Advent Rising I demand you create the two promised sequels!

Dammit, man. I just died a little inside.

...I needed my pancreas.

Don't read this thread unless you don't need your liver:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/wasd_controls/

... and I demand that GoG completely re-writes the source code and engine for Outcast so that it can take advantage of my latest GeForce card. After all, I paid $5.99 for it, which is, like, loads of money and not bugger all or anything like that.

I buy GOG games for the same reason, but changing the resolution options on a game is not as simple as I suspect you think it may be (in fact, it would be impossible for a lot of games, regardless of effort).

What he said.
It's not that simple. If a game has been designed for a certain maximum resolution, stretching it to a higher one will mess up the graphics badly.
If you want to have a higher resolution you have to fiddle with the code a bit and, more importantly, recreate every bit of graphics. And Gog is not a developing outfit.