Posted November 23, 2008
I'm sure everyone wants to know if HIS favourite game has a chance of showing up on gog in the near future. Would it be possible to offer some insight into the negotiations and possibilities, or even just the information that you won't get games from a certain publisher any time soon?
I understand a lot of old games I'd like to play again are now properties of EA, although they don't revisit those IPs anymore. Examples are System Shock 2 or Crusader No Remorse / Regret.
Some other ip is Mechwarrior, especially the MW2 games, which should belong to activision. Those are just the ones which interest me, I guess others are curious about other publishers.
Is there any information you can give on this?
It will be tough with an official statement, as there is many on-going negotiations, which we can not really talk about.
Yes, the wishlist and our personal favorites are the top priorities, but in some cases (2-3 games from the top 10) its not clear who really owns the rights. We are working on resolving it and getting through to the right owners with convincing arguments ;), but it will definitely take time.
Sadly, there might be cases, where we will not be able to resolve the 'who owns the rights' jigsaw. The toughest situation is, when the brand is owned by company X, the code by company Y and on top of that company Y is out of business or nowhere to be found.
Anyway, if it all would have been so easy there would not be a need for GOG.com
We are on it and there is some quite some good old content coming :)