For the record, they are modernizing. The lobby of their new H.Q. shows that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7juV9zo5Tk

If that is an example of potential "GOG exclusives". then we are all doomed. :D I get sleepy by just watching that game, let alone playing it. YMMV, but I don't see games like that being the savior of GOG. Not sure if it even has any historical value, unlike Akalabeth which is offered as a freebie.

(Good thing though that I checked the Youtube. I always thought Hovertank 3D was another game, namely I recall certain early Windows (WinG?) game which I think was also about hover tanks in a 3D environment. I don't recall if it came with Windows 95, or if it was available already for Windows 3.x.)

EDIT: Oh right, it was "Hover!", which apparently came with the Windows 95 installation CD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lXPeNR3eo

I rate even that higher in my wishlist than "Hovertank 3D".

Oh right, it can apparently be played online as well through a web browser:

http://www.hover.ie/

It is the first FPS by id software. As to whether it has the same historical value as Akalabeth, that's another matter.

For good or for bad, evolution is the rule (there are some exceptions though, like certain species that do not evolve since they appeared). Especially for the market and for brands that offer services, it is vital for their survival. Failure to adapt to new technologies, thoughts, ideas, needs, demands, desires (of consumers), to expand, to gamble and take risks, may as well mean its extinction.

And no one would like gog shutting down, even people that do not use it. So let's cross fingers, wish well, and hope for the best to play out.