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Posted June 10, 2010
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Kyojinmaru: Buy a freeware emu modified to pass as comercial?, uuuuuuuuuuuuuhhh... no thanks...
The only thing there that I can see selling something, is Dreamcast, but only with a 100% working emulator, not a modified version of the crappy ones out there...
Guys, you better try to give us Deus Ex, Planescape, Baldur's, System Shock 2, Jedi Knight series, etc... maybe they want to give us this because they can't get these games... a distraction maneuver.
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gas.gas: Well about that, the fact you can easily find roms on the net doesnt mean the games are freeware.
About the Pc games you are asking, it will be very hard to see bioware/EA/Activision games here.

I said FREEWARE EMULATORS, and gog have Activision games already. Steam have JK series and Deus Ex, why gog not?
Post edited June 10, 2010 by Kyojinmaru
Posted June 10, 2010
1. Amiga
2. Commodore 64
I can't really imagine Nintendo or Sega letting you sell their games on their console anyway but if you can somehow do it, cool.
Posted June 10, 2010
1. Amiga
2. Genesis
3. SNES
Posted June 10, 2010
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Kyojinmaru: I said FREEWARE EMULATORS, and gog have Activision games already. Steam have JK series and Deus Ex, why gog not?

The question being asked is not about adding emulators, but about games from other platforms. Though they will likely use pre-configured freeware emulators for them.
Also, Steam will likely have an easier time getting certain classics than GoG, because of their potential for marketing, user base and DRM stance.
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Amiga
Commodore 64
Sega Dreamcast
Post edited June 10, 2010 by sheepdragon
Posted June 10, 2010
Amiga
Commodore 64
Posted June 10, 2010
The piracy of old systems is just way high. Better stick with anything from PSX to now.
Posted June 10, 2010
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sheepdragon: The question being asked is not about adding emulators, but about games from other platforms. Though they will likely use pre-configured freeware emulators for them.

Worse.
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sheepdragon: Also, Steam will likely have an easier time getting certain classics than GoG, because of their potential for marketing, user base and DRM stance.

A 9,99$ ten years old game is vital for Steam?, I don't think so...
Post edited June 10, 2010 by Kyojinmaru
Posted June 10, 2010
Amiga
Nintendo 64
Dreamcast
These should be the best suited to port to modern PCs (or rather emulate, not port).
Posted June 10, 2010
1. Amiga
2. Commodore 64
3. I know it's not on the list but I would like to see games for commodore 16/116/+4 to live again :) F1, Varmit and best of the best - Big Mac :)
Posted June 10, 2010
1. Amiga
2. Commodore 64
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3. Dreamcast
Posted June 10, 2010
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Crom84: I really have no desire to play console games on my PC.
There are so many good old games for the PC that I would love to play again or discover for the first time. I thought the whole point with GOG.com was to make good old PC games available and playable on Win XP / Vista / 7 systems.
I think that it would be a bad thing if GOG suddenly started using their resources getting console games working on the PC instead of making PC games work on newer systems.
A NES game will always work in a NES console and either are not hard to get, but old PC games can be hard to get a hold of and almost impossible to get running on newer systems. That's why GOG is so important to me and the PC gamers around the world. You are not only making the games available, you are making them playable.
Most people own a Nintendo Wii and have through the "Virtual Console" shop already access to tons of old console games (even C64 games). The Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP have got a similar service, but none of them got any old PC games.
This also means that there's no chance in hell that Nintendo or Sony will allow their old games to be ported and emulated to run on the PC.
So please GOG, stick with PC games.
The PC gaming community really needs it.

Well said! I agree 100%. Except for the part about owning a console. I have never owned one and it's doubtful I ever will.
Since GOG is such a small operation it seems inevitable that it would distract from the original goals.
Post edited June 10, 2010 by frankd3
Posted June 10, 2010
Only GOG dont neglect the Pc-Part:
1. Amiga
2. C64
3. N64
4. Neo Geo
5. Dream Cast
6. PS1
7. Pc Engine
Post edited June 10, 2010 by sherka
Posted June 10, 2010
I don't quite understand why some people are so vocally against GOG expanding their service. Surely thats a good thing? It really doesn't matter where the games originated as long as GOG continue to provide Good old Games and DRM-Free.
I also don't understand why people believe that if GOG diversify they will stop persuing PC games, thats just stupid. This is adding an additional service to GOG not taking anything away from it's existing service.
If GOG were to approach say Sega for a Dreamcast collection they would only have to talk to Sega to get access to ALL Sega's Dreamcast AND PC games. Once thats been done they could then simply approach Capcom and get all Capcom's Dreamcast AND PC games. Similarly if they reach an agreement with Amiga Inc then they already have agreements with various Amiga publishers anyway. At the moment GOG can only tempt EA with selling their PC games. If they can tempt EA with selling their PC and Amiga games then that just sweetens the deal surely as games like Populous are just sitting on EA's books earning them nothing.
Post edited June 10, 2010 by Delixe
Posted June 10, 2010
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sheepdragon: The question being asked is not about adding emulators, but about games from other platforms. Though they will likely use pre-configured freeware emulators for them.
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Kyojinmaru: Worse.

What?
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sheepdragon: Also, Steam will likely have an easier time getting certain classics than GoG, because of their potential for marketing, user base and DRM stance.
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Kyojinmaru: A 9,99$ ten years old game is vital for Steam?, I don't think so...

I never said it was vital. Most likely, Steam was approached with it JK and Deus Ex, etc.. I did not mean to imply that they're actively looking for classics to add to their catalogue, but certain distriubtors might be more interested in adding them to Steam, because of the things I mentioned.
Posted June 10, 2010
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sheepdragon: What?

Selling ROMs in a freeware "notevenneartherealconsoleexperience" emulator, is even worse, they can't offer 80-90% working games with glitches, like N64 or Dreamcast ones, and these are the more attractives.
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sheepdragon: I never said it was vital. Most likely, Steam was approached with it JK and Deus Ex, etc.. I did not mean to imply that they're actively looking for classics to add to their catalogue, but certain distriubtors might be more interested in adding them to Steam, because of the things I mentioned.

If a plataform dedicated to new games can, a plataform dedicated to old games can too.
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