Posted December 24, 2011
Dear Santa...
Another year has gone by here at GOG.com, and it's time for us to write another letter to you asking for a sleigh full of great gifts and toys for all the good boys and girls out there. We asked for a very specific list of things from you last year, and we got pretty much all of them: we had remarkable sales of The Witcher 2, proving that the GOG.com model can work for new games as well as old ones; we added EA to our list of new publishers (and brought back incredible classic games from many other game companies as well); we've even updated the GOG.com website with new features like private messaging and a wickedly-fast downloader client that many users seem to like a lot; finally, we have scored some incredible interviews & retrospectives this last year that brought some interesting comments from industry greats such as Sir Charles Cecil (Broken Sword series), Frederick Raynal (Alone In The Dark, Little Big Adventure), and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/news/your_questions_about_tex_murphy_answered_by_aaron_conners_pt_ii/2011/11]Connors (Tex Murphy series).
We even did a number of things that weren't on the wish list, like writing a comic book, introducing our twice a month "Gaming Gem", bringing an awesome Summer Staycation sale, lowered the prices on several games, grew our social media outlets ( and [url=http://www.facebook.com/gogcom]Facebook) to be almost double the size they were last year, affirmed our commitment to user privacy and data security, and attended a few expos ( and [url=http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150269050162657.326832.55892962656&type=1]GamesCom), launched a video trailer!
It's been an incredible year here at GOG.com - our best yet, you could certainly argue - and we owe it all to our incredible user base, the fans who spread the word about GOG.com's sales and releases on social media sites and gaming forums, and we especially want to thank them for making this last year another great one here. But we're not content to sit on our laurels. We want to make things even better in 2012.
Which brings us to our holiday wish list for 2012:
1. We still love classic games, Santa. We want to bring more of our top publishers to GOG.com, and we're happy to say that we've finally gotten all of the paperwork and preparation for our next big new publisher finished. We hope that our gaming fans will be as excited by the incredible classics that we'll be bringing to you guys soon, as we have been getting them ready to release.
2. We've already stated publicly that we want to bring newer games to GOG.com, but we want to do so in the GOG.com spirit: lots of goodies, DRM-free, and at a fair price everywhere in the world.
3. We also would love to bring more completely new day-one releases to GOG.com, also in the GOG.com spirit. We think that the GOG way of distributing games represents a great way for developers to respect their audience (the people who buy games), increase sales, and maybe even help change how the gaming industry as a whole treats gamers.
4. And finally, Santa, we always ask for more. More fans. More great conversations on the forums. More fun contests with fantastic entries from our users. More ways for our users to interact, and for us to reach out to them. More great games, and more great interviews with industry legends.
It's a lot to ask for, Santa, but we think we've been more nice than naughty this year - which is really all you can ask of anyone - and we hope you'll deliver again.
Happy holidays to all, and we hope all of your holiday wishes come true.
The GOG.com Team
Another year has gone by here at GOG.com, and it's time for us to write another letter to you asking for a sleigh full of great gifts and toys for all the good boys and girls out there. We asked for a very specific list of things from you last year, and we got pretty much all of them: we had remarkable sales of The Witcher 2, proving that the GOG.com model can work for new games as well as old ones; we added EA to our list of new publishers (and brought back incredible classic games from many other game companies as well); we've even updated the GOG.com website with new features like private messaging and a wickedly-fast downloader client that many users seem to like a lot; finally, we have scored some incredible interviews & retrospectives this last year that brought some interesting comments from industry greats such as Sir Charles Cecil (Broken Sword series), Frederick Raynal (Alone In The Dark, Little Big Adventure), and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/news/your_questions_about_tex_murphy_answered_by_aaron_conners_pt_ii/2011/11]Connors (Tex Murphy series).
We even did a number of things that weren't on the wish list, like writing a comic book, introducing our twice a month "Gaming Gem", bringing an awesome Summer Staycation sale, lowered the prices on several games, grew our social media outlets ( and [url=http://www.facebook.com/gogcom]Facebook) to be almost double the size they were last year, affirmed our commitment to user privacy and data security, and attended a few expos ( and [url=http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150269050162657.326832.55892962656&type=1]GamesCom), launched a video trailer!
It's been an incredible year here at GOG.com - our best yet, you could certainly argue - and we owe it all to our incredible user base, the fans who spread the word about GOG.com's sales and releases on social media sites and gaming forums, and we especially want to thank them for making this last year another great one here. But we're not content to sit on our laurels. We want to make things even better in 2012.
Which brings us to our holiday wish list for 2012:
1. We still love classic games, Santa. We want to bring more of our top publishers to GOG.com, and we're happy to say that we've finally gotten all of the paperwork and preparation for our next big new publisher finished. We hope that our gaming fans will be as excited by the incredible classics that we'll be bringing to you guys soon, as we have been getting them ready to release.
2. We've already stated publicly that we want to bring newer games to GOG.com, but we want to do so in the GOG.com spirit: lots of goodies, DRM-free, and at a fair price everywhere in the world.
3. We also would love to bring more completely new day-one releases to GOG.com, also in the GOG.com spirit. We think that the GOG way of distributing games represents a great way for developers to respect their audience (the people who buy games), increase sales, and maybe even help change how the gaming industry as a whole treats gamers.
4. And finally, Santa, we always ask for more. More fans. More great conversations on the forums. More fun contests with fantastic entries from our users. More ways for our users to interact, and for us to reach out to them. More great games, and more great interviews with industry legends.
It's a lot to ask for, Santa, but we think we've been more nice than naughty this year - which is really all you can ask of anyone - and we hope you'll deliver again.
Happy holidays to all, and we hope all of your holiday wishes come true.
The GOG.com Team
