I think gog.com needs to purchase more classic old video games, gog.com already purchased or purchased the licenses for the Eye of Beholder video games, etc.

I think gog.com needs to purchase the whole entire Intellectual Property (IP) rights and source code for the Command & Conquer video games.

I think Electronic Arts (EA) has fully abandoned publishing and developing any brand new Command & Conquer video games. After Command & Conquer Generals 2 got cancelled I feel that Command & Conquer will be lost in a licensing graveyard.

Now I'm not asking for gog.com to move fast and keep purchasing video games, because moving to fast can be bad financially and lost money instead of earning profits.

Night Dive Studios seems to be purchasing classic old video games to sell again.

Seriously, gog.com needs to do this a lot more as well.

I will try to raise awareness for this.

No offence, but actually buying IPs is NOT GOG's business model. They just negociate with rights-holders to sell their games and do some work to make the old ones playable on current OS.

Also good luck actually convincing any major publisher like EA to give up any of their IPs, even the ones they have no plans to use anytime soon. The fact is that any reasonable amount of money that you could offer to them while still hoping to make a profit via sales wouldn't even be enough to get big companies to even talk to you, let alone sell.

Um it appears some of the AD&D video games gog.com did purchase them outright from who ever held the rights. There was a pcgamer.com article about it a few days ago.

Game companies usually hang on to game rights unless their desperate for cash, something EA won't be unless the market crashes.

Probably because the rights holders (whoever they may have been) were only interested in selling not licensing. I don't think GOG would make it a rule, they're a store first and foremost.

Anyway, there's a huge difference between buying the rights for a few very old, obscure RPGs and buying the rights for a well-known RTS franchise. I'm pretty sure GOG doesn't have anywhere near the amount of money it'd take for EA to be interested in selling the C&C rights.

Not to mention that EA's already signed here as a publisher, so if the old C&C games aren't sold here it's probably because the rights to them are a mess, like old Westwood employees owning some of the rights or something.

That is exactly the reason why I said gog.com should move slowly not fast.

Slowly or fast, nohing's really going to change the fact that EA's a much bigger company than GOG and has no reason to sell the C&C rights. They may not be planning to do anything with the franchise right now, but to a company like EA owning IPs is basically an investment.
GOG just doesn't have the kind of money to make EA interested in cashing in that investment, and most likely never will.

Last time I looked in 2011 or so Electronic Arts (EA) was selling the Command & Conquer (IP) for $100 million dollars (USD), but later dropped it to $10 million dollars (USD).

CD Projekt RED earned over $280 million dollars (USD) from selling The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, so I can see gog.com purchasing Command & Conquer from Electronic Arts (EA) for $10 million dollars (USD).

That would be great.... too bad GOG is not powerful enough to buy IPs and that is not even considering where they belong in the first place.

It hasn't historically been part of their business model, but it's something they've started doing.

http://www.gog.com/games##sort=bestselling&devpub=gog_ltd&page=1

Personally, I'm quite happy with it and hope they continue to find other things to buy.

After Lucas Arts and Bethesda the Command & Conquer series is one of the last wishes I have here on GOG. Especially Red Alert was a really great game!

GOG should just buy a controlling stake in Nintendo.

On a more serious note, I'd welcome GOG buying the rights if not lock stock and barrel for smaller games like Mordor: The Depths of Denjol or STARS!

A corporation would charge GOG a massive amount of money to buy an IP that is decent. A corporation would not offer a good deal. So I'm sure, GOG doesn't think it is worth it.

Dropping $10 million dollars to sell a few old games seems like a horrible deal they'd lose quite a bit of money on.

You're assuming they aren't trying to find more IP's to purchase.

As for the C&C IP. Even if EA doesn't want to do anything with it, they'd be stupid to sell it unless they had a pressing need to.