[STEAM] GOG wants your “Dreamlist” classic games so it can use them to prod publishers

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PC game storefront GOG, which has recently pledged to

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, has now revamped its community wishlist for games to bring to its storefront. The

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serves not only as a way to get notified when a game you loved is newly available for DRM-free purchase, but for GOG to use as market pressure in its negotiations with rights-holders.

The games GOG members picked out on what used to be called the Community Wishlist still have their votes, and they have been useful. It was often "the fuel for our actions," Karol Ascot Obrzut writes

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. "When talks with IP owners hit a wall, the Wishlist kept the conversation going." GOG attributes the newly available

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 and 

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(and

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) in part to wishlist leverage. Those games had about 5,000 and 3,500 votes, respectively, which helped when, as

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, "two polish dudes" approached Capcom to ask about making the games Windows 10/11 compatible and upscaling it.

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GOG's Dreamlist announcement video. The Dreamlist has received a complete design and interface overhaul, and it makes it easier to see what other people are demanding.

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, with more than 57,000 votes at time of publishing, is

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, the 2001 game from Peter Molyneaux's Lionhead Studios that was a true "god game," giving you an avatar creature that learned from your actions and treatment.

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commands the third-place slot at the moment.

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