LOL didn't take long.

What about Rainbow Six 3 :(

Settlers 3,probably because of bugs and the patches

In the long term GOG could potentially host every game as the copyrights upon the games expire - although a couple might be hard to pin down if a company or trust or similar body holds the rights.


That said I suspect that most games which rely upon strong licences from outside of the game world will be the main problem ones to get onto GOG. Games which use sports assets (cars, players); rely upon a movie licence (eg the Lord of the Rings games); even some with specific music tracks. These could all be very hard to get back onto GOG once their licences expire, and indeed we've already lost a few from GOG to those areas.

The other risk is when a licence for the game itself ends up jointly/fully owned by a company that is outside of the game world - again it makes the approach and pitch that much harder.


That said when it comes to negotiations we can all hope that as time passes, GOGs ability and influence will grow to the point where some previous barriers get lifted.

Final Fantasy Series.

Any game not released on PC

It is unlikely that we will see Super Columbine Massacre RPG grace our good shelves. But as TheEnigmaticT says: "Never give up hope"?

Any game that has to inform you that all the characters portrayed in their game are at least 18 and over.

Well, if the game is owned by multiple companies (Dune, Blade Runner, WH, System Shock) that makes it hard to impossible for GOG to get it.

If a game's rights owner is unknown to pretty much everyone, that makes it hard for GOG to get without some intense investigation work. Poor, poor Strife... :(

Games who use some sort of DRM system or Steamworks for their MP would probably be impossible, ripping it out would probably make the whole game fall apart. So in the end it just isn't worth it. Go buy those now if you want them.

Steamworks can be ripped though, if it's used lightly it seems. I mean, GOG got Alan Wake. Also, GFWL can be ripped. I've done it with my copy of GTA 4 and Kane & Lynch... (Shhh don't tell anybody :O)

Some companies are happy with their own system, like Blizzard or Valve.

In the end, you never know though. So you should enter panic mode and BUY ALL THE GAMES.

I am not sure if a game can depend on DRM. After all DRM is not really part of the gameplay and therefore not neccessary. Very often hackers achieve to remove the DRM really quick. For the devs or the publishers who are supossed to have insight into the code it should be even easier.

Maybe you mean large online portions. So I guess that every MMORPG or any Facebook game will never come to GOG.

For all the other games is kind of a gamble. You never know if they turn up on GOG or not. Also GOG doesn't take part in speculations. So if you need to play them now, buy them whereever you can now. If you can wait, wait.
Then one could probably separate SP and MP mode. If there is a will there would be a way. So one shouldn't say never with this games, although is very unlikely.

Not really. In such cases it's possible to buy some assets from those companies who cannot use their IPs (relatively cheap). If GOG could buy all rights to Dune or Blade Runner game, then they just need to speak to Frank Herberts Estate (I think they hold copyright to Dune series) and sign a deal that concerns only old games. It's just a matter of convincing people at FHE that they might be able to make a bigger deal with EA/Activision/Ubisoft if people would ask for a Dune game. And that's more likely if people can download old Dune games and play them, and then ask for more (like better modern Dune strategy game).

More importantly...What about SWAT4?

Peoples who don't care about the MP but only about the SP.

Personally, caring only about SP, having MP is at the same level as having a Russian or German language track... it's nice to know it's there but I don't give a damn if it's not. Not to mention that as games get older (exception like Starcraft notwithstanding) MP servers tend to be more and more deserted making the MP interest lower and lower even for those who use it.