As someone, who has seen his fair share of businesses going 'the way of the Dodo' - nope!

Sure, there will be a little sadness, maybe a little rue, if there was a game (or several) which I didn't purchase, while there was still time...but then my life will go on - exactly as it did after every other "going out of business" of companies that I used up to that point.

My GOG games (and their extras) are all downloaded.
The same goes for my GOG movies.
So I won't lose anything.

Disambiguation request: South East Asia or South East Africa?

Yeah I've seen you repeat this same line over and over again for the past 5 years (at least). GOG is doing poorly, GOG will die soon, publishers don't want to publish anything on GOG, yadda yadda yadda...

I presume you are just trolling and seeking attention and reactions from GOG users, not really expecting any useful discussion. To each his own I guess.

But on the topic: yes I expect GOG to close store at some point (or someone will buy it out and turn it into something else than what it is now, a DRM-free store). Whether it is next year or 20 years from now, I have no idea.

I similarly expect Steam to stop its operations at some point. Most probably it will far outlive GOG though, but still, nothing is eternal.

Whatever, at least my GOG game offline installers are safe at that point, while with Steam I will lose access to most of my Steam games (as well as in Epic Games Store, EA Store etc. when they decide to call it quits).

So, yeah... Being a DRM-free store makes me feel more secure to buy games from GOG, even if I believed the store will close in my lifetime. At least I won't lose my games if and when that happens.

Err, what? To me it seems 90% of messages I see from tfishell is acting as "devil's advocate", constantly trying to remind everyone that GOG must be doing poorly, publishers must hate GOG etc. When there is e.g. an announcement a game is leaving GOG, tfishell is 100% sure to chime in and tell everyone it must be because the game sells so poorly on GOG. Which of course might be true, but somehow it seems redundant to keep repeating and rubbing it into everyone's faces in all such threads (even if it is not clear what the reason is, e.g. if the game was pulled from other stores as well).

At least that's the picture I've gotten from his messages from like past 5 years or so, and I've often wondered what his motives are. I presume it is mostly about trolling and seeing how GOG users react. Yeah I know, I sometimes do that too (seeking reactions).

For a storefront that everyone seems to hate and is apparently doing poorly, it sure does get a lot of releases, some of which are pretty significant.
Like MGR.
Sure, came a bit late but it's here now, and that's great, I want to see more Platinum games come here.
Maybe Devil May Cry can find its way here too. It sure is old enough to be considered.

I don't think anyone hates GOG lol. Players who know about GOG are almost always positive about it. The problem is that most players don't know about it or don't care about the main advantages of GOG, which are offline installers and DRM-free games. Most AAA game publishers and developers are not interested in GOG because of the lack of DRM, they still think DRM protects them and sells the game, even if CDPR with Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 or Larian with Baldur's Gate 3 showed that people will buy the game if it's good.

Well I guess it is all down to how you reason things out.

For me, if I have paid for a game, I need to take ownership of it. That means downloading immediately and backing up to at least two separate drives ... one drive is not enough insurance, and three is recommended.

The cost of external drives is a factor of how much money I will spend on games. Just like no point buying a game, if you aren't going to pay for a PC, especially a PC that will easily meet a game's requirements.

It would seem silly to me to spend heaps of money on games, but stint on buying backup drives. So a matter of setting the right priorities. And honestly, hard drives are fairly cheap these days ... you get a lot of bang for buck.

But hey, much in life is a gamble.

You can gamble on Steam probably being around forever, but I certainly don't expect GOG to be .... DRM-Free flies in the face of standard business practice, so it remains a tough sell to game providers.

I don't know how many games you have on GOG, but 2TB or 4TB USB HDDs are relatively cheap nowadays, I think.

If you just don't want to invest on any extra hard drive space just to keep offline installers there, that's another thing I guess. I back up all my >2600 GOG games (Windows English versions only) because I have the hard drive space available and can do the backup relatively easily. Helps a lot with coping with the thought of GOG stopping its operations at some point which WILL happen at some point (1 or 20 years from now), just like with Steam and other digital stores.

As long as GOG continues to honor as many of the requests on the community wishlist as possible, that is all I, as a gamer, care about. Give me RE4 and RE5, Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2, maybe even some unexpected ports of non PC titles like Parasite Eve and Silent Hill. Those would certainly get a lot of interest going GOG's way.

Well, I recall seeing messages on the vaporous forums people being annoyed of there being other digital PC game stores besides their biggest store, especially if some game is exclusively released on some other store. But also otherwise, maybe they feel the other stores make the PC gaming landscape more fragmented, which may well be true. In their eyes it would be so much simpler and better for everyone if there was only the vaporous site.

People prefer having their games on only one (or few) service, I can't tell I am necessarily that much different as I've bought hardly anything from various smaller DRM-free stores, whatever there are at this point (itch.io? that flowergames site? Zoom?).

I did buy several games from DotEmu and have also quite many games on Humble Store (I bought most of them for the DRM-free Android .apk versions of said games, but they came also with Windows versions of said games which was nice). I think I had some games on itch.io or some other DRM-free store as well, but I am unable to log into it anymore due to 2FA, and their support hasn't answered to my pleas to get my account back. Oh well, screw them then, I am pretty sure I didn't have anything super-important there anyway.

I have downloaded any DRM-free games I have on e.g. Gamersgate.com, the Strategy First's store (which didn't offer unlimited downloads anyway but expected you to download your DRM-free games within a certain timeframe, and that's it) and DotEmu (which is now dead), and a couple I bought directly from the publishers' store (albeit many of those games later appeared on GOG too and I bought them on GOG as well).

I'll look into it, problem is my free spending budget sits at about 20 bucks with money going to bills and on going care for family so I will have to see and the 20 is for this month only on average I have about 0, which made me just realize that if I have any emergency I am beyond screwed anyways thanks for the tip.

Well, no, of course if you have a tight budget, it isn't sensible to buy a $130 USB hard drive just so that you can download your games to it, for no other reason than if the store might close its doors in 1-20 years.

I also happen to be on a tighter budget at least for a couple of months, which is why I haven't bought anything even from GOG for the past 4 weeks (even though several items on my wishlist have been on sale). I happen to be in a very tight budget this month as I lost my tenant which means -650€ per month to my income (looking for a new tenant now, or even considering selling the apartment even though now it is not a good time to sell), and I got also a lower salary at the end of July due to no extra work/duties during July. I possibly won't buy any more games (or buy anything unnecessary) before I find the new tenant, just so that I can pay all my bills in time.

At the end of June I had quite a lot of money due to extra duties, summer vacation bonus money from work etc... and I recall I spent something like 500€ for GOG games then, LOL! So it goes, from riches to rags, now I am counting every penny so I can pay all the bills during August....

Hm, maybe I based that on too old memories, or confusing users, but I remembered tfishell as a strong supporter of GOG. (Then again, so was I, before the "Good News".)

Edit: Nope, I definitely was basing that on the right memories, like https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_search_for_game_rights_a_diaryesque_thread/page1 You damn well don't do that unless you're a strong supporter. But of course those can also end up being the most disappointed and bitter if those they support turn on them, or if it feels like it.

What was the "good news" again? Not concentrating solely on ancient MS-DOS games anymore? Regional pricing? Something else?

I guess everyone has some limit that makes them "disillusioned" or even bitter. I guess for me it would be starting to promote DRM but at that point I wouldn't probably hang around GOG (forums) anymore, but just leave the place, without any teary-eyed announcement.

I've been resistant to Steam and other client-based storefronts. If GOG closes its doors, I would be bummed. It would mean having to settle for alterative stores with even more scant selection than GOG, or give to larger client-based stores like Steam.