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right, and valve is also a backlog centric company because it continually adds games that are not coming out at the time it adds them. This is just stupid word

right, and valve is also a backlog centric company because it continually adds games that are not coming out at the time it adds them. This is just stupid word play to try and get it to say what you want. They have from the get go been a company that sells the service of selling games. That's it. GAMES. This has not changed, was anyone really shocked when they started selling indie titles? Having a catalog of old games doesn't make you a company with a "backlog", it makes you a company that sells a product that happens to be old games. Because under your criteria, Vavle is a backlog company because it puts old games up on steam. These absurdities result because of the stupidity of trying to define it that way. They are a company who sells a product. That product was originally selling older games repackaged for new OS's, and as they've grown they've started selling more lesser known games, indie games, and finally, current games. Their only real hard claim is that they're DRM free and that's always been the case.

Jtsummers 12y ago
You keep writing backlog. Backlog and back catalog (the latter being what the rest of us are talking about) are two different things. A backlog is work you have to do and haven't gotten to yet. A back catalog is a list of a companies products (including out-of-print, obsolete, etc.). But a more general usage applies to Good Old Games as they started, a collection of otherwise out-of-print (in a manner of speaking) games. Indie and contemporary games came later, it's not wrong to talk about their history this way and it's still an image many people have for them. Now, if you think that we're talking about a backlog, then yeah. We'd be fucking morons. I doubt they have a backlog of orders considering their delivery method.
- mreiland 12y ago
  > You keep writing backlog. Backlog and back catalog (the latter being what the rest of us are talking about) are two different things. It's been long enough that I don't recall if it was you or not who originally started using it in that manner. backlog is a shortening of the term 'back catalog', and the poster in question pointed that out, I simply ran with it. Since I don't recall exactly, I won't accuse you of having edited your post, but someone did as I can't find it now, but it was definitely used in that manner. > But a more general usage applies to Good Old Games as they started, a collection of otherwise out-of-print (in a manner of speaking) games. GoG started as a company that made it convenient to play older games by patching/adjust/configuring them to play on newer versions of Windows. That was their service. They weren't selling older games, they were selling the service of making them work on newer OS's. They have never been strictly a "back catalog" company, ever. Never in all of the time that I've been using them have I ever considered them to be an "old game" company. Characterizing them in that way is a mischaracterization. It's like calling MS an OS company because they happen to sell an OS (hint: they're a software company), or calling YCombinator a software forums company because they happen to run software forums. It's stupid.

Jtsummers 12y ago

You keep writing backlog. Backlog and back catalog (the latter being what the rest of us are talking about) are two different things. A backlog is work you have to do and haven't gotten to yet. A back catalog is a list of a companies products (including out-of-print, obsolete, etc.). But a more general usage applies to Good Old Games as they started, a collection of otherwise out-of-print (in a manner of speaking) games. Indie and contemporary games came later, it's not wrong to talk about their history this way and it's still an image many people have for them. Now, if you think that we're talking about a backlog, then yeah. We'd be fucking morons. I doubt they have a backlog of orders considering their delivery method.

mreiland 12y ago
> You keep writing backlog. Backlog and back catalog (the latter being what the rest of us are talking about) are two different things. It's been long enough that I don't recall if it was you or not who originally started using it in that manner. backlog is a shortening of the term 'back catalog', and the poster in question pointed that out, I simply ran with it. Since I don't recall exactly, I won't accuse you of having edited your post, but someone did as I can't find it now, but it was definitely used in that manner. > But a more general usage applies to Good Old Games as they started, a collection of otherwise out-of-print (in a manner of speaking) games. GoG started as a company that made it convenient to play older games by patching/adjust/configuring them to play on newer versions of Windows. That was their service. They weren't selling older games, they were selling the service of making them work on newer OS's. They have never been strictly a "back catalog" company, ever. Never in all of the time that I've been using them have I ever considered them to be an "old game" company. Characterizing them in that way is a mischaracterization. It's like calling MS an OS company because they happen to sell an OS (hint: they're a software company), or calling YCombinator a software forums company because they happen to run software forums. It's stupid.