GoG,

I certainly wish you had a larger catalogue, but the biggest thing you could do in order to get me to buy more games on GoG is:

1) Give me a discount on games you curate that I already own on other platforms. I'm not advocating "free" like GoG Connect used to do, but discounted.

I own many games across various consoles, Steam, Twitch, etc. that I would love to own on GoG, but I hate buying a game over-and-over again... even if I do prefer GoG. Mostly I wait for GoG sales and even then only buy one or two games that I own on other platforms. But, if something like GoG 2.0 saw that I owned the games already and I was then given a discounted price on GoG for those titles, I would probably take the plunge if only to have a PC DRM-free backup of all those favorites.

The trick in this scenario would be making it lucrative for the customer, the developer, and GoG, but I would certainly use it. When GoG Connect fizzled a few years back I lost some enthusiasm for GoG. A policy like this would definitely build some great buzz and word-of-mouth... almost like Xbox One's backward compatibility.

Replacing Connect with something like this maybe.

Ask that from the publishers of those games .

That would be up to GoG to ask / negotiate.

I do think it would be easier to populate than GoG Connect was. That's been barren for years.

The proposal in the OP is inherently unfair - and therefore a very bad idea - because it would privilege those GOG customers who have bought DRM-infested games on other platforms over & above other GOG customers who have not.

Why should group A of customers receive special discounts that group B doesn't get? They shouldn't, because that would be the opposite of equality.

Have you been on GoG long? Are you familiar with GoG Connect?

That gave a GoG customer who had a game on Steam the same game DRM-free from GoG. Free as in... the consumer pays nothing.

In your scenario, Group B is equally able to purchase the game elsewhere and receive the same discount... although they would spend more money than just buying the game on GoG in the first place. That's perfectly egalitarian.

February 2018: 7 games
June 2018: 10 games
September 2018: 5 games
December 2018: 9 games
January 2019: 7 games

Oh no! The years of barrenness!

That's a weird way to spell "nude mods".

Also, following that line of logic, why have discounts at all? Group A could get a game for half off wheras everyone else had to pay full price for it. I'm not criticising, just pointing that out.

One word: PLASTICS

Sarcasm doesn't make you look smart.

If you look at the GoG Connect wiki, it stopped updating in 2017, and I check GoG every few weeks and have not seen anything listed since more than a year ago. I may be wrong, but that's my experience.

So, the core of the issue is that prices are too steep for certain games you are willing to pay less for and that you would buy more games if they lowered the price on those games?

Guess they never pondered that specific issue before.

On a more serious note, keep an eye out for sales and GOG Connect if you don't find the price agreeable.

It would bring in new customers and they might buy other games for full price or spread word of mouth to others to also buy from GOG so they'd make more money.

Heck, we already have preferential pricing in some sales for those who already own part of a series or own an older version of a remastered game, so why not this as well?Compared to how many games GOG has in total?

Well, you're wrong.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_free_games_on_gog/post100
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_free_games_on_gog/post156

Both those posts say TEMPORARY free games.