Ok good to know, now back on thread topic...

I'm borrowing Protoss' numbers here. At that price point, GOG would be giving access to $3200 worth of content for about four dollars a month. A person would have to be subscribed for over 60 years before GOG was getting a fair deal out of it, assuming a hefty discount. A monthly subscription for thirty dollars would see a return for GOG after over seven years of a constant subscriber. Still wildly unprofitable for them.

This is all moot because there is physically no way for them to delete the content afterwards without including DRM. iTune's system for deleting rentals doesn't "sound a little bit like DRM", it is DRM. There are services out there which can do a monthly all access pass, like Onlive, because they're entirely built around keeping the games under a strict lockdown. That is literally everything this site is against. It would never ever ever ever ever ever happen because it goes against every single value GOG holds so very dear.

So yeah, there is absolutely zero feasible way this could ever work. I agree that GOG needs bundle pricing for series packs like Spellforce or Gothic, but a giant everything pack is a bit ridiculous, and a monthly fee is utterly 100% impossible for this site.

But any and all of those would require some way of controlling access to the games, which is completely at odds with GOG's founding principles. It's just not something that could work without GOG selling out.

Nothing wrong with DRM for a monthly subscription service. That's one of the cases where DRM is perfectly legitimate. Renting over the Internet is another case.

That's funny right there

"You buy it, you own it" only really applies if you buy it. As long as they keep their principles with regard to sales and wouldn't make renting the only option then I can't see any ethical problem. I don't really see GOG adding a rental or subscription model, though.

I suppose you're right. I don't think that GOG would ever want to associate themselves with DRM at all, even though it is a legitimate use when you're talking about a rental service.

As I said: Flat discounts are also good

but GOG should at least give the option to buy games in the "Buy more, Pay less" model, as well

They have done so for some promos in the past, and even offered the steeper discounts if you already had most of the promo'd games, nothing that's included the whole catalogue though. I imagine all promos have to be negotiated with the rights holders unless GOG wants to lose money when paying the rights holders their due for the copies sold.