GOG's Catalog Losing 35 Games

[Max_imus]

Indeed. I just wish I'd seen it sooner. I'll free up an afternoon next week and browse GOG, my paycheck should come in soon anways.

 

[RyQ_TMC]

What's unclear right now is why the site is losing so many games at once.

Well, that's the easy part of the mystery. Nordic is pulling out, so they're losing all the games Nordic has rights to. 35 of them.

There's rumours about GOG's stance on regional pricing being responsible, but I don't think we'll get any solid details from the company - they might want to avoid Nordic's wrath in the hopes of getting the games back.

I just bought Gothic 2 on sale for 2.49$, hoping it does not suck, because i read the combat is bad. Sad i didnt have enough money to buy more games.

The problem with the edition sold at GOG is that it comes bundled with Night of the Raven expansion pack[footnote]I almost wrote "DLC"... What have you done to me, games industry?!![/footnote] and I think there's no option to disable it (aside from maybe faffing about in the ini files). Vanilla Gothic 2 is one of my favourite games ever, the expansion changes several important things including mechanics and is especially annoying in the early game... I don't know, it might be my nostalgia for vanilla, but I'd prefer it without the expansion.

Other than that though, it's a great game. The combat might occasionally get annoying because of poorly-designed controls, but overall, it's a long game with a lot of quests and a very well fleshed-out world. I'd recommend it anytime.

It's a good idea to invest in the first Gothic as well, now that it's on the -80% sale. Gothic 3 was a huge disappointment, the rest of the series is forgettable. Production is rough around the edges (the first game was made by a team with no previous experience), but the games ooze heart.

OT: As I said in another thread, GOG's slant towards indies is getting more and more visible, and a lot of the blame, I think, should go to the publishers. While I commend the guys for doing the best they can and holding onto their pro-customer policies, I don't like how the pubs have the power to crush them for their perceived slights.

 

[themilo504]

I have mixed feeling about gog, in many ways I consider them superior to steam, like how you can install your games where you want, but their selection of games is rather poor, obviously they have a lot of old games but I don?t really like most old pc games, and besides for old games they have almost nothing.

I do hope that they don?t continue to lose games, steam really needs competitors even smaller ones like gog.

 

[grigjd3]

I bet this is related to their "Fair Price Package". These games may well be under pricing agreements with other retailers and the publishers aren't allowed to let gog underprice the competition.