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I am new to the forums, and to the whole gog thing, so i would like to know why don't we have any cod games, it would be cool to see the classics, like 1,2,3 and maybe 4 and WAW. I want to see what do u guys think.
Because: GOG doesn't own these games and can't sell them without the owner's permission (Activision Blizzard).
Post edited November 28, 2020 by teceem
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teceem: Because: GOG doesn't own these games and can't sell them without the owner's permission (Activision Blizzard).
oh, didn't know they had to own the games, anyways it would be cool to see cod games
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They don't have to own the games, but if they don't, of course they have to make legal deals with the publishers/license owners. If it can't be determined anymore who holds the license (as it sometimes happens with old games) or if the publishers show no interest in releasing their games DRM-free on GOG (as it often happens with big AAA companies), then GOG can't sell them.
Post edited November 28, 2020 by Leroux
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Leroux: They don't have to own the games, but if they don't, of course they have to make legal deals with the publishers/license owners. If it can't be determined anymore who holds the license (as it sometimes happens with old games) or if the publishers show no interest in releasing their games DRM-free on GOG (as it often happens with big AAA companies), then GOG can't sell them.
i don't get it, so companys are ok with Gog selling their games for ass cheap
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lolprings: i don't get it, so companys are ok with Gog selling their games for ass cheap
I don't get your comment either, is that a question? XD

Sales are common across all stores, but many AAA publishers prefer to (1) just concentrate on the stores with the most customers (like Steam) and don't care about the little extra they would make on comparatively niche stores like GOG, or better yet (2) keep their games exclusive to their own stores, and also (3) stay in control all the time so that they can collect information about how you play the game, change the game and what comes with it at any time, revoke your right to play it when necessary, and prevent you from sharing it with others, which is easy to do via online clients, near impossible with DRM-free offline installers (you might only be familiar with GOG's Galaxy client, but contrary to Steam, the GOG client is optional and many forum regulars don't even use it; DRM-free backup installers that run without client are GOG's unique selling point and a condition to sell your games here, and not all publishers like that).
Post edited November 28, 2020 by Leroux
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lolprings: i don't get it, so companys are ok with Gog selling their games for ass cheap
Yes and no. Some companies are willing to allow GOG to sell their games, some aren't.

Let me simplify:
-GOG is a marketplace, gets a cut of all sales
-games are the products (the actual product is the license which allows us to play the games legally)
-companies are the producers of said product, they decide prices of their games
-us gamers are the final consumers

The marketplace sells us game licenses which give us the right to play the games we paid for, within the limit of the licenses. The marketplace must strike a deal with the producers to be allowed to sell the licenses.
GOG is a peculiar marketplace that sells licenses with the condition that no DRM is to be forced upon the consumers.
GOG wants to be a time capsule of the old times, before Steam, when you bought a game you had a phisical copy that you colud use to install the game where you wanted, as many times as you wanted without anybody bothering you.
This can be abused (install the game on several computers) but GOG allows us to make the choice to be honest or pirates and some companies won't stand for that.
DRM is a component that doesn't allow us the choice to be pirates, but also can be harmful by reducing overall performance or behaving like malware.
Many companies want money rather than satisfied customers so they add DRM, microtransactions, gambling/lootboxes and bad DLC to their games. GOG won't stand for that and so no deal can be made.
I suggest watching some Jim Sterling on youtube to inform youself, if you want to.

In summary, some companies are willing so deal with GOG, some aren't.
Prices are decided by the companies, what you see is what they want.
Most triple A companies deserve the crap they get for unethical behaviour.
Post edited November 28, 2020 by Dyed_
There's just something fishy about the whole thing.
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lolprings: i don't get it, so companys are ok with Gog selling their games for ass cheap
GOG isn't about selling games cheap. It is about selling games DRM-free, as well as patching older games up to be able to run on newer systems. Many large AAA publishers don't want to sell their games DRM-free, therefore, they are not available on GOG. That is really all there is to it. In many cases, games here are no 'cheaper' than they are on Steam, Epic.

Regarding CoD - there are many other good shooters available on GOG that are DRM-free. Maybe you could check them out?

Some that looks interesting that I have on my wishlist:

Metro 2033 Redux

Terminator Resistance

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
Post edited November 28, 2020 by Time4Tea
COD games are all terrible so it's no loss for them to be missing from GOG.

As for why GOG doesn't have any: same reason as why any other game isn't here, which is because the IP holders don't want to offer it DRM-free.
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lolprings: so companys are ok with Gog selling their games for cheap
You make it sound like GOG arbitrarily, on their own, decides the prices at which they sell the games for here. But that's not actually true. Rather, the publishers/devs/IP holders decide what the prices are, including the sale prices, and whether or not they choose to put the game at any discounted price at any time.

As for the idea of games being sold cheaply: that's standard practice in the video games industry. Old games lose their market value over time and hence decrease in price as they age. That's nothing new, and it certainly didn't start with GOG, and nor is GOG the only place where it applies.
Post edited November 28, 2020 by Ancient-Red-Dragon
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lolprings: i don't get it, so companys are ok with Gog selling their games for ass cheap
I guess GOG treats Ireland well but GOG is NOT cheap for many other countries, just browse the local prices thread.
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lolprings: I want to see what do u guys think.
I would like to see them here but Activision doesn't seem to want them here - even the oldest ones - for whatever reason.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: COD games are all terrible so it's no loss for them to be missing from GOG.
Well, that's a load of bollocks for a start The first game is a damn fine sequel to Medal of Honour Allied Assault. The three or four that followed were all really good.
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lolprings: I am new to the forums, and to the whole gog thing, so i would like to know why don't we have any cod games, it would be cool to see the classics, like 1,2,3 and maybe 4 and WAW. I want to see what do u guys think.
Gog has Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on sale .

https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_ops_red_mercury
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: COD games are all terrible so it's no loss for them to be missing from GOG.

As for why GOG doesn't have any: same reason as why any other game isn't here, which is because the IP holders don't want to offer it DRM-free.
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lolprings: so companys are ok with Gog selling their games for cheap
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: You make it sound like GOG arbitrarily, on their own, decides the prices at which they sell the games for here. But that's not actually true. Rather, the publishers/devs/IP holders decide what the prices are, including the sale prices, and whether or not they choose to put the game at any discounted price at any time.

As for the idea of games being sold cheaply: that's standard practice in the video games industry. Old games lose their market value over time and hence decrease in price as they age. That's nothing new, and it certainly didn't start with GOG, and nor is GOG the only place where it applies.
new ones. yeah, old ones, not so much