Virama: Well, I did some easy math, and if you sell each one of these games at ten bucks each, that's over a million dollars for you guys.
Did you read that properly?
ONE MEEEEELLION DOLLARS!
Cor: Unfortunately, they cannot just wave a magic wand and add these games. GOG needs to track down the copyright holder and convince them. That costs time and money.
then they have to fiddle with the code, which costs money
then they give the copyright holder their share of each sale.
and there is other overhead, servers etc.
My point: They wont be "ONE MEEEEELLION DOLLARS!"
They will certainly make some money. But I often wonder how much of each sale Gog gets, 50%?
Otherwise, I certainly agree! I want to speed up the process! I would love to see everything on that list
In the discussions dealing with Interplay on Steam is was said that GOG gets 15% of each sale as it's cut, and Steam is at 40%. Now, no one has "officially" backed those numbers up, so take it for what it's worth. But with that in mind, the most GOG would get out of it is $150,000.
Granted, the big reason those games aren't available yet is the right holders aren't letting GOG sell them. EA, Lucas Arts, Hasbro (D&D licenses). If you REALLY want them on GOG, purchase a controlling interest in the above companies and you'd get to say what goes on (within reason).