On the same day that GOG has launched Dino Crisis 1 & 2 on their store, the company has revealed their system revamp of their wishlist system: Dreamlist.
Before Dreamlist, GOG’s wishlist system was straightforward, if clunky. They encouraged fans to just post the game they want on their forums, and they would get feedback from their players on said forums about the games as well.
Dreamlist is set up to look like a marketplace in itself. When you enter this part of GOG’s website, you are greeted to several ranking charts. On top is a chart showing off Staff Picks, for the games GOG staff want to work on themselves. Below that is a nice little list of the games that GOG were able to successfully add to their site after seeing fan requests for them.
And at the bottom is a list of what games fans are requesting the most. From this frontpage alone, you can already vote on a listed game so that you can share your vote as well. As best as we can tell, you’ll need to be logged onto a GOG account to vote.
Subsequently, you can add your own quasi-review to let GOG and the public know why you want the game to come back. To do this, you will have to click on a game and see its dedicated Dreamlist page. As you can see from this Dreamlist page for The Operative: No One Lives Forever, it features cover art and other assets for the game, a listing of its development details, including genre and game modes, and perhaps most crucially, links to share the page on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
It’s clear that Dreamlist was designed to increase engagement for fans to request their favorite games more easily, and allow them to do so more clearly. GOG certainly seems to imply that Dino Crisis 1 & 2, as well as the Resident Evil Trilogy, were brought to GOG because the fans wishlisted those games so hard.
Now, we’re sure that GOG is absolutely sincere about wanting to bring these old games back from their passion. But obviously, working on these revivals is also good for their business too. GOG may be thinking that they could more easily pitch a GOG rerelease of The Operative: No One Lives Forever from that game’s stakeholders, if they showed them this Dreamlist page.
And so we did our own checking and found these results:
Yes, some deep cuts aren’t in the Dreamlist yet. For example, I couldn’t find a listing for Zombie LLC’s stylish 1996 FPS Zero Population Count. I can’t be the only one who wants to see curiosities that don’t hold up like this in GOG.
Yes, Roger Ebert’s favorite game, The Cosmology of Kyoto, has a Dreamlist entry, but not a lot of engagement in it. Perhaps you’d like to show your support for this potential release?
Yes, The Chronicles of Riddick, which GOG was forced to delist, made its way back here in the Dreamlist. Maybe you can help GOG in convincing the rights owners to bring the game back by interacting with its Dreamlist page?
Finally, there are some odd region locked games on GOG. I looked for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and saw it ranking on the Dreamlist, but I still can’t access its store page because it’s not available in my region. So this appears to be a key area that GOG already needs to work on to improve their new wishlist feature.
Overall, we’re eager to see Dreamlist enable GOG to get even more classic games to return, and we can’t wait to see how their new initiative turns out.
