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Time to fill the hot summer nights with gaming passion.

GOG Summer Sale is now live!

With over 8,000 of the best deals under the sun, it’s one of the biggest sales of the year. Whether you're after timeless classics, indie gems, or modern hits, you’ll find them all at great prices.

There’s no need for sunscreen – just great games and hot deals. Hope you enjoy!

The sale lasts until July 10th, 7 AM UTC.
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GOG.com: Time to fill the hot summer nights with gaming passion.

GOG Summer Sale is now live!

With over 8,000 of the best deals under the sun, it’s one of the biggest sales of the year. Whether you're after timeless classics, indie gems, or modern hits, you’ll find them all at great prices.

There’s no need for sunscreen – just great games and hot deals. Hope you enjoy!

The sale lasts until July 10th, 7 AM UTC.
There are some really nice sales and I've bought a couple of games already, but I really wish there were more Visual Novel games on GOG. I notice GOG is slowly adding those, but I still need to buy outside of GOG - whether that's on Steam or their own stores such as Jast USA or Mangagamer. One I'm interested in is Tokyo Necro that has been "To be announced" for a long time, but has a release date of March 2023 on Jast USA.
I can buy it from there, but I'd prefer to keep my games in 'one place' through GOG Galaxy and also, GOG downloader is a lot better than Jast USA website.

Would like to see more titles like: Seedsow Lullaby, Marco and the Galaxy Dragon, Symphonic Rain, Making Lovers, Aokana and others. As well as adding older titles (like GOG did with True Love 95)
Post edited June 28, 2025 by Darkelve
What I want are some older Far Cry titles like 3 and 4, Need for Speed titles (including the ones EA officially dropped), and James Bond 007 Quantum of Solace and James Bond 007 Nightfire. All of these are old games that are good and would be exceptional additions to GOG!
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syscrusher: What I want are some older Far Cry titles like 3 and 4, Need for Speed titles (including the ones EA officially dropped), and James Bond 007 Quantum of Solace and James Bond 007 Nightfire. All of these are old games that are good and would be exceptional additions to GOG!
Bond titles are unlikely to be rereleased as the ip license for em would be quite costly.. and if I am not mistaken doesn't all Need for speed games have alot of licensed cars in each game? If so then odds are they won't be rereleased either as a result as songs are easy to remove or swap out by stuff like licensed cars in a racing game isn't ..
JDM here at GOG features licensed cars by Honda, Mazda, Nissan, and Subaru. Models include the Civic, RX-7, Skyline, Fairlady, and the Impreza.
I just want regional pricing on EA and Activision games. :(
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syscrusher: JDM here at GOG features licensed cars by Honda, Mazda, Nissan, and Subaru. Models include the Civic, RX-7, Skyline, Fairlady, and the Impreza.
Doesn't disprove my statement as when the licenses expire to use the cars in the game and if the devs/publisher doesn't wish to use money to renew the licenses it'll get delisted and likely never get relisted ever again because its legal hell to deal with licensing like that when it comes to cars and similar stuff.. that can't easily be removed if at all
Post edited June 29, 2025 by BanditKeith2
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syscrusher: JDM here at GOG features licensed cars by Honda, Mazda, Nissan, and Subaru. Models include the Civic, RX-7, Skyline, Fairlady, and the Impreza.
That's a new game, which has licensed the use of those brands now. There will most likely come a time when those licenses will expire and that game will also get delisted, but that moment's quite a number of years down the line, even decades if they did things really well (I guess it's not impossible that they got a perpetual license and that moment will never come, but that's highly improbable).
But for older games that had such licenses which did expire already, that's basically it. The only way to get them back legally would be to persuade all of those brands to reissue the licenses, and that's not going to happen without a hefty chunk of money, most probably well above what an old game is likely to earn.
Nonsense. Licensing the brands is a part of the process but wouldn't stop a studio, Steam, or GOG from getting the rights to make or sell a game if it's financially viable to do so. There have been shovelware titles that manage to use authentic car brands, so it can't be prohibitively costly. Whether GOG wants to bother to check it out, or knows it wouldn't generate enough income, is the issue and we can't know for sure either way.
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syscrusher: Nonsense. Licensing the brands is a part of the process but wouldn't stop a studio, Steam, or GOG from getting the rights to make or sell a game if it's financially viable to do so.
It's not financially viable, otherwise they'd do it. It's very much not "nonsense," it's the reality. It's not like publishers are known for just leaving money on the table.
There have been shovelware titles that manage to use authentic car brands
Unlikely. Either they didn't actually get permission, or they used "looks like an authentic brand but changed just enough to avoid trademark infringement" fake brands.
Whether GOG wants to bother to check it out, or knows it wouldn't generate enough income, is the issue and we can't know for sure either way.
Except we do know, because those "expired license" games never end up back on Steam, and in any case it's not up to the stores, it's up to the publishers.
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syscrusher: Nonsense. Licensing the brands is a part of the process but wouldn't stop a studio, Steam, or GOG from getting the rights to make or sell a game if it's financially viable to do so. There have been shovelware titles that manage to use authentic car brands, so it can't be prohibitively costly. Whether GOG wants to bother to check it out, or knows it wouldn't generate enough income, is the issue and we can't know for sure either way.
It's not the stores that have the licenses, unless they also get the distribution rights entirely signed over to them.
You try persuading EA to shell out probably millions to re-license the brands used in NFS games to get old games catering to a niche audience of retro gamers published again, AND sell them DRM-free, and on a store that gets a few percent of the sales of Steam. I'm sure many have tried, but who knows, maybe you'll manage it.
And that statement about shovelware titles needs some solid evidence to back it up... Though, of course, there is very likely different pricing for those licenses between when an indie dev asks for one and when a major studio does, and there may also be governmental programs supporting the gaming industry in some countries that may facilitate negotiations or even cover for some expenses, or when you have for example educational games then the licenses may be freely granted. And then there are games actually made or commissioned by the brands, as advertisement, which of course are going to have the licenses. But you're not talking about that.
Post edited June 30, 2025 by Cavalary
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syscrusher: Nonsense. Licensing the brands is a part of the process but wouldn't stop a studio, Steam, or GOG from getting the rights to make or sell a game if it's financially viable to do so.
Talking like a true tourist.

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syscrusher: There have been shovelware titles that manage to use authentic car brands, so it can't be prohibitively costly.
I fugging doubt it. Unless its some out of production, obscure ex-soviet brand perhaps.
Well, this has to be the record for longest running summer sale on GOG without any kind of excitement happening (from the site breaking to freebies or competitions that will run forever without winners).
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Sachys: Well, this has to be the record for longest running summer sale on GOG without any kind of excitement happening (from the site breaking to freebies or competitions that will run forever without winners).
Breaking records is exciting!
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Sachys: Well, this has to be the record for longest running summer sale on GOG without any kind of excitement happening (from the site breaking to freebies or competitions that will run forever without winners).
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eric5h5: Breaking records is exciting!
Somehow boring GOG is not necessarily a terrible thing.

(Steam summer sale is even more uninspiring like last year)
Post edited June 30, 2025 by lupineshadow
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eric5h5: Breaking records is exciting!
GET OFF MY VINYL COLLECTION!!!