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I mean yeah it's cool to have new games on the site as well, but most of your customers came here for good OLD games like your title suggests.
Are there any plans to bring more of these?
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King Eli: I mean yeah it's cool to have new games on the site as well, but most of your customers came here for good OLD games like your title suggests.
Are there any plans to bring more of these?
Edit: First of all: "Good Old Games" has not been GOGs name for years. Yes, that was the meaning of the abbrevation in the beginning, but it's just GOG.com now.
I would be surprised if you find "Good Old Games" on any official webpage, you'll find it only in forum posts or third party articles.

Second: We already get "new" ones on a regular base.
Not all publishers want to sell them these days however (no one wants having to support DOS games), and in many cases it's impossible to find out who holds the rights. Collaborations between companies make this a lot worse too. There are several rights holders for NOLF, but since back then all files were stored on paper, no one is willing to find them in the basement, but they ARE willing to sue if anyone re-releases the game.
And then there are those who only want to sell on Steam.
Post edited January 22, 2023 by neumi5694
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King Eli: I mean yeah it's cool to have new games on the site as well, but most of your customers came here for good OLD games like your title suggests.
I disagree. I come here for DRM-free games, not "old" games specifically.

In fact, I find GOG has way too many old games, and way too few new games and way too few top tier premium quality games, which is one of the #1 things that is wrong with GOG and also the #1 reason why GOG has a very small market share.
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King Eli: I mean yeah it's cool to have new games on the site as well, but most of your customers came here for good OLD games like your title suggests.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: I disagree. I come here for DRM-free games, not "old" games specifically.

In fact, I find GOG has way too many old games, and way too few new games and way too few top tier premium quality games, which is one of the #1 things that is wrong with GOG and also the #1 reason why GOG has a very small market share.
Bullseye!
Post edited January 22, 2023 by KeoniBoy
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King Eli: I mean yeah it's cool to have new games on the site as well, but most of your customers came here for good OLD games like your title suggests.
Are there any plans to bring more of these?
Well a store who name you can't speak of has been releasing some old good games if your interested. Check them out they seem to be focusing more on old games right now. But I feel GOG doing good job with old games.
hey it's been a while

:P
There was a time this would work: JMich, JMich, JMich !
I miss those charts.
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King Eli: good OLD games
Here is a good old game for you. Myth has it the "developer" was Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. Perhaps he might be looking for a publisher now, after several millennia.

P.S.: GOG does release old games too, they're just not high profile old games that much, because most of those are either stuck in limbo or already here.
Post edited January 22, 2023 by WinterSnowfall
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neumi5694: I would be surprised if you find "Good Old Games" on any official webpage, you'll find it only in forum posts or third party articles.
"GOG is the place to build and play your collection of Good Old Games and modern hits."
From GOG's frontpage.

Obviously it's not exactly what you are referring to, but still it is a term that they actively use.
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King Eli: I mean yeah it's cool to have new games on the site as well, but most of your customers came here for good OLD games like your title suggests.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: I disagree. I come here for DRM-free games, not "old" games specifically.

In fact, I find GOG has way too many old games
And I strongly disagree to that.
GOG was much better store when they focused on older games alone, even though in theory I support having newer titles in the selection. After all, they all get old at some point.

But old games are much simpler.
No massive flood of DLCs, no abandoned in development titles, third party support is extensive, and so on. And in many cases the games are simply better.

If GOG had some Commodore 64 games in their catalogue, that would make me happier than any new game I can think of.
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PixelBoy: "GOG is the place to build and play your collection of Good Old Games and modern hits."
From GOG's frontpage.

Obviously it's not exactly what you are referring to, but still it is a term that they actively use.
Point taken :)
But as specification: As name or title for the site, like the OP stated
Post edited January 22, 2023 by neumi5694
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King Eli: ... but most of your customers came here for good OLD games like your title suggests.
Have you got any facts to back that statement up?

There are many different types of customers at GOG now, and unlike 10 years ago, the majority is not necessarily after old games. But in actual fact, you need to define 'Old Games', because every year we get another lot of games, a years worth, qualifying as old games, and most of the games I see coming to GOG are some kind of old and not latest releases, certainly not many AAA or even AA games.

GOG did a pretty even mix of releases in 2022, and I expect it will be fairly similar in 2023. A good number of quite old games, some very good, were in that lot.

GOG release games in waves, that's my experience anyway, and I am here every day and noticing that.
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King Eli: Can we get more good old games???
Whether you define these games as good is entirely subjective, of course, but old they are..:

From Nov. 1st:
M1 Tank Platoon (1989)
M1 Tank Platoon II (1998)

From Nov. 23th:
Europa Universalis IV (2013)

From Nov. 29th:
Blade Warrior (1991)
The Killing Cloud (1991)
Theme Park Mystery (1990)
Battle Master (1990)
Savage (1988)
Interphase (1989)
Annals of Rome (1986)
Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper (1987)

From Dec. 16th:
F.E.A.R. 3 (2011)

So, it's not as if we don't get (good) old games anymore.
I 100% agree with original poster, I still don't understand why Gog doesnt try to get Magic Candle series or Megatraveller or escape velocity nova
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BreOl72: Whether you define these games as good is entirely subjective, of course, but old they are..:

From Nov. 23th:
Europa Universalis IV (2013)

From Dec. 16th:
F.E.A.R. 3 (2011)

So, it's not as if we don't get (good) old games anymore.
I would call these two very new games.
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toupz111: I 100% agree with original poster, I still don't understand why Gog doesnt try to get Magic Candle series or Megatraveller or escape velocity nova
Who says they don't try?
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BreOl72: Whether you define these games as good is entirely subjective, of course, but old they are..:

From Nov. 23th:
Europa Universalis IV (2013)

From Dec. 16th:
F.E.A.R. 3 (2011)

So, it's not as if we don't get (good) old games anymore.
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PixelBoy: I would call these two very new games.
In the world of PC gaming, games from 10 to 12 years ago are considered old.
Post edited January 22, 2023 by BreOl72