Hi happy goggers,

My excuse for not making a GOGMix is that I want to include games that are not yet on GOG.

Imagine a GOGMix called 'Sneaky sneaky' with titles like Arx Fatalis and Thief

( or 'Gone Fishin' with games like Arx Fatalis, Fable and Torchlight )

This would have 2 benefits:

1) people who know about Thief will buy Arx Fatalis as as they will see they can sneak around and steal things.

2) the GOG team will be encouraged to bring Thief into the GOG world as one would assume only really good old games non on GOG would be added to these hybrid GOGMIxes

So I suggest the GOGMix app is updated to allow adding of blank entries with a 'not on GOG yet' cover art and a blank text field for the title.

PS thanks for all of the updates to GOG recently, and via a GOGmix have found some games I might have missed. So they are a great idea.. keep the good work.

Well I didn't make one because I don't see the point.
The GOGmix function is completely useless; everyone can browse the whole catalogue, sort by genres, years, scores, developers/publishers and each game has its synopsis on the shop page. The shop has also a recommneded for you function and if not sure you can always ask around the forums.

It's just a cheap gimmick where users do the most work with promotion of titles sold.

All of this is true, but I do however think that when the GOG catalog has doubled it's current size, it will prove to be useful. Especially to people not very familiar with old-school PC games.

It's hardly useless, all it needs is a proper search function. Every now and then (like... Every month) a question about GoG games working in Linux pops up. GoG games using dos-box. The most worthwhile GoG RPGs. With GoGmixes, need for those questions will lower, and there will be an easily accessible point of reference if someone asks anyway.

Good points about Linux or Dos-box, but still to me it seems like a lazy workaround for useres to handle it themselves.

If you look at it with the "glass half full" perspective (lol), it would seem more of a way for users to feel like they are contributing to the community more, aside from posting on the boards. Features, features, features... and having shit to do, is always a plus for a site like this.

I think it's a cool way to suggest your favorites ....but who cares enough to look through every single member's favorites?

Also, the catalog can be browsed in under two minutes - it's small enough to already be somebody's GoG mix.

I think I might go and make favorites one anyway. We can always edit them later, right?

There are a couple of problems with your idea:

1. Given the current format, GOG would have to have a database of a large number of titles not currently on the site. That would include cover art. Given that GOG is a commercial site selling games they can't really claim fair use of non-GOG cover art.

2. Those games wouldn't be in the catalogue (obviously). So how would these non-GOGs factor into where the GOGmix appears? They tend to only appear on the pages of the games listed.

So, in short, it would be better to create mixes called "Games Like Thief". Or "If You Like Thief You Might Like...".

I'm gonna call mine "When I finally become rich and pretty" and make it a wish list.

This would be archieved much easier and better if we could stick tags to the games.

I didn't make one because my backlog of unplayed games is larger than my played one and those I've played, I have most likely not finished for one reason or other, so recommending them without a full play through seems deceiving for me.

A GoGMix is simply a linking record between valid GoG records with a description.

Now if that link allows a value like -1 instead of a positive GoG ID number, then we can simply do this:

The select list offers a 'Not a GoG title yet' that returns a -1 value,
A value of -1 triggers some javascript that allows entry of a free-text field for the title,
A new record is added for the free text title in the linking table,
When searching or showing the GoGmix, if it links to record -1 then show the free text title instead of the GoG record title AND a generic cover art image stating 'I am not in GoG yet'

So programatically this is very simple to do.

Is this do-able GoG team?
Same here.. I think I have about 25 games now on GoG alone, have started 2 and am currently playing 1 in urnest. And each day I check for more games to add. Sometimes I think buying games is more fun than playing them.

But lets not get off topic.. would the ability to add non-GoG games to a GoGMix be a good thing?

I don't think Mixes are useless, they allow us to see groups of games sorted by categories that don't fit in the usual interface. Once they make mixes searchable (with keywords or tags) then they'll really shine.

I was going to make a GoGmix, but didn't because I realized I just don't know enough the games in the catalog. It was basically going to be a list of games with "substantial modding communities" but I realized my criteria was either too vague or too specific.

My first instinct was to make of list of games which have currently maintained sourceports (because the source was released), but that list is too small. Then I considered adding any game with any "really big" mods available for it, but that is too vague and I'm intimately familiar enough with every game.

Still, I think the spirit is right. I think it would be a useful list. Some people want to know if a game lasts long beyond the first playthrough, and projects like that do that.

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