Nothing against indie games, some are very awesome and creative. I just feel there are too many indie games on GOG. The focus should be on bringing GOOD OLD GAMES on GOG, the focus should not be on bringing new indie games to GOG. Of course we can have both, but indie games shouldn't take the focus away from bringing the old games back.

The number of older games is still about the same as it was always. The percentage of old games is lower. For more info, see the sticky thread. Latest numbers are here.

Well, if AAAs have a vagina in their trousers nothing GOG can do about it.

why?

GOG.com has shifted the focus a long time ago when it decided not beeing Good old Games anymore.
Some consider it progressed, i consider it a huge regress with all the side effects.

Actually, there are not nearly enough indie games on GOG. There's plenty out there I'd love to see get a GOG release.

Yup, yup. Right on time for our monthly "there aren't enough old games here" thread. It never fails.
At least this one isn't hostile like they usually are.

I had the same concercs a few years ago when GOG started shifting, I even posted a topic and kinda got told off for being a troll.

I stopped buying here since (except for Requiem and a handful few more GOOD OLD GAMES) .
Sadly the market has changed, and GOG forgot the people that brought it where it is now.
Hope one day another company will try to go after abandonware/old games and restore/release them again.

That gog has indie games is actually a good thing. And there is no such thing as too many indie games.
Indie games give us games that the big companies dont want to develop . And indie games have a high level of creativity,
production value . Yes there are bad and garbage ones and that indiedevs make many clonegames of an successful
concept just look at all the jumpandrun or metroidvania as an exempel. But the majority is pure gold.

And about old games the thematic is entirely debatable when a game is old. Some people consider 10 years as old.
Others 2 years or maybe 6 months. The companies even consider a game after the first crucial sale weeks/months as old and they move on to make a new one.

Always think it funny seeing these threads i remember at the start of gog only getting 1 game a week maybe 2 and thats it. People wanted more games hence indi games where added as well as increasing a much needed revenue stream for gog which lets face it only selling old games would only give so much cash.

I know you probably won't, but if you only took a minute to check JMich's stats, you'd see that GOG has kept releasing a similar amount of good-old-games (i.e. pre-2000 games) every year since 2008. And that's quite remarkable, since with every new release, the amount of unreleased 'old games' gets lower.

The only thing that's changed is the proportion of old games released, as each year there's been more and more day-one (or recent) releases. This can of course can give the impression that there are fewer old game releases, but it is simply not true.

That is also a good point about the revenue gog getting . Only selling one product (old games in this case) only gets gog
little money and they would have gone under by now.

They don't have enough Indy Games.

Infernal Machine would be sweet! :D

Personally, I welcome indie games. There can never be too many indie games on GOG, as long as they're good.

As for the "good old games", GOG has shifted from selling (only) those a long time ago, and I think that's a good thing. Like others have said before, GOG still releases old games, they just seem fewer because the releases of indies and "AA" games are so many. If you're looking for a legal place to get old games, GOG is still the place to go. Anyway, there's only so many "old games" you can release, most of them are in legal hell, others the publishers simply won't sell digitally; whereas indie games are much easier to publish. Plus, if you took the time to browse through some of those dreaded indie games, you might just find something you really like. Just be a bit more open-minded.

There's also the question of what, exactly, is an "old game"? For instance, I see the OP has a Mirror's Edge avatar and, since they think GOG sells too much indies and not enough old games (but they do sell Mirror's Edge), I assume the OP thinks of Mirror's Edge as a good old game. It certainly is good, but is it an old game? It came out in 2008, 9 years ago, not even a decade, which, to some of us -- myself included -- isn't nearly enough time to make it a "good old classic" like System Shock, the Baldur's Gate games, Planescape: Torment, the first two Fallouts or the Ultima games (or even the first text adventure Zork games, some of the oldest sold on GOG). See, to some, a two year old game is already a "good old game", but to some (I would assume most, even), a game has to be either older than 10/15 years or released before or around 2000 to be considered old. There's simply no consensus when it comes to what makes a good game "old".

So, instead of bitching and moaning about GOG not releasing any "GOOD OLD GAMES" anymore, how about we just enjoy the games GOG does sell and that we think are awesome, indie or not? I, for one, have been playing River City Ransom: Underground -- a newly released "good new indie game" -- and having a blast. And that's what matters. More than old or indie or AAA games, we should be worrying about the *GOOD* part of "good old games". Because, you know what?, being an old game doesn't necessarily make it good. People seem to forget this a lot, but there were a ton of games that were just downright crappy, back in the day.

There is another issue with Old Games which we can see with the likes of No One Lives Forever" and that is who owns the games as we have seen with a number of games rights get lost or companies cant be bothered looking for the legal documents also original source code can be lost which can also leads to games being almost impossible to run on modern machines .

As we have not got a lot of the games people want the more obscure old games may be impossible to get.