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Matruchus: A big surprise for me would be if Tropico 5 would be released tomorrow on gog like everywhere else.
You mean with DRM and regional pricing?

No?

Then stop expecting GOG to release the same games as everywhere else when they are operating under harsher constraints, one of which YOU worked to have them keep. It's quite hypocritical of you to tell GOG not to do regional pricing, which leads to less big new games (including strategy games), and then complain that there are less big new games coming to GOG.

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Matruchus: Maybe only the ones with 200-300 votes which I don't really see as fit to come to gog before those with thousands of votes
And yet you're complaining that a game with about 50 wishlist votes *(as of writing) has been rejected by GOG. Hypocrite much?

* including one of mine as I would like to see it here.

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JMich: Where did they promise two classic releases per week?
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Matruchus: I don't remember where it was and if the thread still exists but several people have on different occasions confirmed this.
How can they confirm it if they are not GOG staff member? By quoting a GOG staff member saying so. So if they have indeed confirmed it then you can just copy their source and give it to us. Otherwise they didn't confirm it, they only confirm that they think GOG said so, like you think GOG said so.

Is hearsay and rumors the best "evidence" you have?

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Matruchus: TeT stated they only released 5% off available classics so that is not true that they can't do anything it has more to do with TeTs quality checks or better to say only games are released that he likes or it seems to me like that.
Only because you are highly susceptible to confirmation bias "or it seems to me like that".

GOG said that they got the low hanging fruits of older games.
GOG said that without regional pricing it becomes much harder to sign AA+ new games due to the contracts publishers have to sign with retail stores.

There's nothing GOG can do to make it easier to get older games (just work hard at it) and the community here rejected regional pricing.

The logical conclusion is that we will get older games as they manage to get them and that newer games will be mostly smaller, the kind that would not see a retail release and thus be less likely to have the associated contractual obligations.

Therefore I don't expect to see many big new games on GOG for a few more years (until retail is small enough that publishers won't care as much about it).

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Matruchus: 2 classics a week promise was stated by several other gog members also in different threads and I don't believe they were lying or did I see ghosts
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

There are other ways to be wrong than by lying. Somebody in another thread might also try to claim that GOG promised two old games because he saw other GOG members say so, including Matruchus, and Matruchus wouldn't lie, would he?

Except that Matruchus seems very poor at reading comprehension and logical deduction and thus anything he says needs to be double checked for accuracy, "or it seems to me like that".

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Matruchus: So don't see the reason to defend myself for that
The reason to defend yourself for that is that you made a claim and offered no evidence for its accuracy. Others disputed that claim so you have the choice of withdrawing it, evidencing it (and hearsay is not evidence) or stubbornly refuse to do either and let others judge the general reliability of your statements accordingly.

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Matruchus: Classic releases I support although I don't find it appropriate that games with less than a 1000 votes is released
And who made you arbiter of what is and isn't appropriate to appear on GOG?

You want to be such an arbiter? Build your own game store.

Bonus: you will get to see some of your users defecate on all your hard work getting the rights to old game and getting them running on new machines because they don't think that particular game is "appropriate" for having less than 1000 votes but that another game is appropriate with 50 votes.

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Matruchus: Im for sure not going to buy a game that looks like a flash, android like game.
What's wrong with flash and android games? The first two creeper world were flash games, that didn't make them crap.

Sure it's harder to make a good game on those platform due to the available inputs but each game should be judged on its merits.
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thebes: I would like to see more wargames myself. I'm sure there are some older one's Gog could get a hold of. I sometimes feel like I am the only wargamer here, boo hoo. They do have a few good one's though.
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justanoldgamer: You're not the only wargamer here. I joined GOG for Battle Isle. I do wish they had the Steel Panther games.
Do you have Combat Mission:Operation Overlord? It's great!
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thebes: Do you have Combat Mission:Operation Overlord? It's great!
Third game I bought here but I have yet to play it.
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thebes: I would like to see more wargames myself. I'm sure there are some older one's Gog could get a hold of. I sometimes feel like I am the only wargamer here, boo hoo. They do have a few good one's though.
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justanoldgamer: You're not the only wargamer here. I joined GOG for Battle Isle. I do wish they had the Steel Panther games.
Indeed! And the Great Navel Battle games :)
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thebes: Do you have Combat Mission:Operation Overlord? It's great!
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justanoldgamer: Third game I bought here but I have yet to play it.
It's way better than I thought it might be. Love the WEGO system and the love they put into the game.
Post edited July 28, 2014 by thebes