My bad. I should change the title to "open community rant to Gog".

Hardly a letter, let alone one speaking in the name of the whole community.

GOG's catalog of oldies and classics keeps growing, and (most) of their previously released "good old games" aren't going anywhere. GOG may have built a name for themselves as a depository of classics, but, to me, they were always more than that -- GOG is about DRM-free games. Not "some" games, but ALL of them, and having new, contemporary great titles available, completely DRM-free, while adding to an ever-growing classics library is a good thing, not a bad one.

I don't want GOG to be a closed, elitist community, only gathering around the glorious System Shock 2, Baldur's Gate and Gabriel Knight, as good as those games are (and, yes, they are awesome). I, for one, enjoy having access to DRM-free versions of new games. They released The Banner Saga, and [url=http://www.gog.com/game/kentucky_route_zero_season_pass]Kentucky Route Zero one week after the other, consecutively -- if you ask me, all great games that would have been lost to GOG if they only focused on oldies. And I more than welcome these games over here, I wouldn't have bought them with DRM on Steam, but I still wanted to play them (which means that, before GOG, I would probably have resorted to piracy).

GOG didn't take anything away from you when they introduced indies and newer games, they keep steadily adding classics and older games, with the added bonus that, for those who want them DRM-free, they add newer titles as well. Options, you know?

XD The sad thing is I ended up with all these Witcher codes and it's WAY too high end for my OS

tinyE, did I already tell you today that I love you?

[just kidding, I already have The Witcher (>*o*( O_o)]

Now that was embarrassing to read.

Fixed.

it does, however, contain letters...

From time to time we get those "why GOG put newer/indie games" threads and it's always amaze me people don't understand that GOG couldn't just release any classical game she desire - she need to negotiate with the game's IP holder and the bigger her user base will be the better chance she would be in securing those classical release.

So the new games are actually helping, in the long term, bringing the old ones.

Hey, it's been a while since one of these threads! Most people are probably glad about that.

To OP: GOG technically isn't "Good Old Games" anymore, although they still bring some good old games. Problem is they can't survive on those alone, so they had to get into indies too.

I don't usually care about indies either, but I find it's best to just go "meh" and move on.

We should see a ... well, not really good, but old game released this Thursday.

Last ten games I bought from gog are:

Shelter
Kentucky Route Zero
Amnesia
Kings Quest 4, 5, 6
Deponia
Bards Tale
Hotline Miami
Nox
Trine
Tzar: Burden of the Crown

So 10 games:

3 oldies
7 new/indies

Not sure I agree with you. I guess I am not a part of your community?

Sorry but I give about as much of a crap about the old games as you do about the new ones. If you were looking to rally the troops under some common flag symbolizing the awesomeness of the good old days, then you must be very disappointed.

If you like the old stuff, then that is all well and fine, but I would prefer you don't suggest they not be allowed to sell what I want just because they chose some slick acronym back when they got started. Cuz I tend to heart the newer stuff even though I was rockin' the old games when they were new.

ZOMG! You guys seriously crack me up... thank you so much for the chuckles ;-D

To the OP, you might want to read the following - it explains how to write a formal letter. Your post is exactly the opposite - just sayin'

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/BusLetter_Block.html

Oh and by the way, the indies you're rallying against? They'll be "old" in short order - just wait a couple of years.(It remains to be seen if they will be judged "good" but then that is completely subjective) It's a fact of life that we all grow older day by day and games do too. ;-p