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Provide a list of upcoming "new" old games
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tygrr3 It would be nice to see a periodic (monthly?, quarterly?) list of games that will be added to the site in the near future. Once license agreements are reached and official plans are in place for various games to be added to the site, it should be possible to post a list of games that will be coming soon. For example, Theme Hospital just became available today. Obviously this had to be in the works for some time now, so it would have been nice to see an announcemnt about that game coming soon a month or 2 ago. Most of us have limited budgets for game purchases so it would be great to be able to plan ahead for a great old game that I want to have before it comes out instead of spending my money on a mediocre current game just because I have nothing else to play. This could also help generate sales as word of mouth will bring other people in looking for those "new" games.
Sollidottingen They had this before in terms of search filters.. Then they decided gog does not stand for "good ol' games" any longer.. Pretty shitty to remove features if you ask me
ZMacZ Don't worry..we won't hold it against you if it's too hard to get it...
Just add the words "Games that MAY be available on GOG soon.."
ZMacZ Yes plz....that would keep me from trying to buy them elsewhere..
My worst nightmare...buying it elsewheretoday, and finding it on GOG the next (usually a WHOLE LOT CHEAPER ! or worse..on SALE !)
skeletonbow Unless GOG themselves own the rights to the game because they are the publisher (which is true for only a small number of games so far), the actual publisher of the game is the one who gets to decide if and when GOG can pre-announce the upcoming status of any game titles. So GOG could provide a special tab for it or something but I think the existing upcoming tab is more than sufficient for this purpose. If they are not putting any old games in there, most likely it is because the publisher hasn't given them permission to do so. Having said that, while GOG's hands may potentially be tied, publishers can measure the interest in this here at least.
utaQcee5 I think this is dangerous for a couple reasons. If something doesn't pan out and it doesn't get dropped in GoG for legal, technical or other reasons, you piss of customers that could have bought it earlier elsewhere. Second, you give competitors a time to undercut you on sales. If Steam knows GoG is going to get a game a few months before they advertise it, makes business sense to maybe sell that title for a loss for those two months to entice would be GoG-buyers to buy from them a few months early. Customers don't like buying a game twice. I think more people would be unhappy with 'perpetual eventually' than the current 'uncertainty'. Look no further than the Galaxy Linux Client for an example. ETAs suck for programmers and they're even worse when you start adding lawyers. What needs to happen is AAA studios should start releasing to GoG same day as Steam. Please write to your game studios and on associated game forums people, not here.
Pendrokar I agree with MONKPREDATOR04, even at the time of the current writing I see that Braid, which can be called as an old indie game, is listed as upcoming. Reporting as duplicate.
monkpredator04 there is sort of a list now with 'new & coming' features on the main page but I believe there should be a filte for those when you search for games too. Maybe 'coming soon' should be an option on the 'release date' filter?
gameragodzilla I would like this feature, too. One of the big things right now that I'm doing is waiting to see if there's a GOG release, as I like GOG's DRM-free, zero BS purchasing far more than Steam's, meaning I would only buy from Steam if I couldn't get it on GOG. Knowing whether a particular game is being negotiated or an agreement reached would be very nice to plan my purchases ahead of time.
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TobyGOG why always play new? where the constant real old games?
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Matruchus This really a minimum necesitty on any webstore so that people can plan ahead their purchases. I really don't care about surprise effect of a release since there is no such thing even if gog thinks so.
KittyKay I recently bought a game on Steam (after checking GOG and not seeing it listed) and then GOG posted they had it the very next day. I absolutely would have bought it here if I knew ahead of time that GOG would be selling it. I think having a list of upcoming (confirmed) games would be a great function.
tfishell Problem is this information can be used against GOG by competitors. I voted for upcoming /new/ games, where prices will be the same initially throughout all stores.
Erometal Simcity Classic, i forgot what its called. i would love to see this game on GOG Totally Buy It!
Awesomov This is ultimately a mixed bag. As others have explained, sometimes it can save some money or hassle in terms of buying the game elsewehre first (I don't suffer that because I mainly buy here, but I'm thinking of other people here, too). On the other hand, I sometimes like to be surprised, and I wouldn't doubt if they obtain a game and release it, like, right after or something similar anyway. I suppose sometimes it might help (like it has with the pre-order deals), but I don't think it's always necessary even if this does come to pass.
jodaniel3 I agree with this. I almost bought Don't Starve on steam because I didn't know it was coming to GOG, but listing it as an upcoming release saved me. You can keep doing the mystery releases of course, but we'd like more notifications.
tygrr3 It looks like something along these lines has occurred with Fez and Don't Starve showing up in the "New & Upcoming" list. Can we see a few more listings like that?
##@@##@@ I don't want to know about maybe's and whatif's... but locks should be advertised. Even if its months away, I'd like to know. This is solely for GOG's benefit as I'd rather buy from GOG. But, if I have no clue a game is in the works, I may buy elsewhere versus not knowing if GOG will ever work it out.
DRM_free_fan Good idea. Provided that the titles are uploaded on (or before) the release date published.
jules5956 No no no.. have you ever read the playstation blog? Half the posts are people complaining that expected game Y has not come out by date X even when a delay has been explained.
tripleccreation yeah, this is a very good idea, this would make people excited, and stay on gog as muhc as they can, at least i would be like that lol
zuhutay I would like to know which games Gog is working on, too. The page could be kept apart so that people who want it to be a surprise do not see it.
HertogJan I like the surprise, but also like to know what's coming. This suggestion is especially useful for new games, so people can consider where to buy them.
KeyperOS Within certain limits it wouldn't be a bad idea. Obviously not before the talks are complete but once GOG has the publisher's approval/agreement and they go to the phase where they tweak/patch the game they can, theoretically post it on a Soon-to-be-released list. Unfortunately that has the downside of impatient people asking for ETAs and pestering the GoG people, not letting them do the tweaking and testing required to the best of their abilities.
Tychoxi As a customer, I would really appreciate this, even if it has a disclaimer saying "this list may or may be complete. Games on this list may or may not be actually released soon". As for GOG's bussiness, I'm not sure if this would be good or bad.
tygrr3 They don't have to say when the game will be available so there could still be that element of surprise. I can get a list from Gamestop or Amazon for all of the brand new games coming out for the next 6 months to a year... it would be nice to see what will be added here over the next several months.
F4LL0UT In my opinion this doesn't make much sense, especially from a business point of view. And also as a user I actually enjoy the suspense I experience on every tuesday and thursday pretty much.
rickaustinson This would be really great. I seem to have nearly infinite patience but its nice to know when things are coming.
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