So GOG have started to buy the rights to old games publishers and started with Sierra?

Ah=] In fairness, you could've used singular, though=] Like 'a GOGer'.

if its Troika and Arcanum then stop the big countdown crap because all you're going to do is make people upset its not what they really want: Planescape.
Arcanum isn't that big of a deal. It's a good game, but we wanted Planescape.

Hopefully It's EA instead of Activision, EA has a larger catalogue of oldies. Activision joining would be meh for me, still any big publisher joining gog is good news.

GOG doesn't buy the rights to games, they negotiate with rights holders to sell copies of the games they own. It is just a storefront, not a publisher.

...if the only thing that'll make you happy is Planescape, there's a pretty good chance you'll be disappointed.

"If You came for the Torment You'll be sorely disappointed" ?:P

I know but it would be unexcelled if they did. :P
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ok people, that is not a coincidence, that is a clear clue. however that is also only the first hint, and they know from reading this thread how much we are picking apart every little piece of info, so they must have known that we'd get it pretty quick, which means it's probably just a part of the announcement.

As Dristvaan said, it's probably not a good idea to get too excited. If your expectations aren't too high you'll likely be happy with The Big Announcement(tm).

You know - it took me 5 minutes to decide whether I want the more game-like singular "I sense a GOGer in search of answers" or the more appropriate "I sense GOGers in search of answers". Ultimately, I decided that if I choose the first one, the obvious reaction would be "Just ONE GOGer in search of answers 0_o ? What about the rest of us ?", so I settled for the plural version, figuring that since I'm paraphrasing anyway, I might as well do it in a way that would make the most sense...
And then you claim I have never played the original Diablo QQ ! Me ! A die-hard Blizzard fan, ever since I set my eyes upon the first Lost Vikings...
Abandon all hope, you, who do not wish to be disappointed ?
Aw, come on - we can always write a sad "meh" if it's not what we expected. On the other hand - if it is impressive, it'll totally be worth the pre-announcement excitement to be able to say "Eff yeah - I was RIGHT ^^ !"...

That's not impossible, you know?
karmic sounds a lot like Carmack is pronounced :-O

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I Can't Wait Any Longer.

So we have gone from it's EA and Ultima to Fable and Microsoft then Troika because of a co-incedence now ID because Karma is like Carmack (which it isn't). So we are back to square one and it could be anyone again. Nice job people.
And Mikee was worried...

Planescape has all kinds of problems with it, as far as re-releasing it is concerned. Firstly, Interplay have re-released it for substantially more than $10. Secondly they admit they've got no right to do so and deny that the game has been re-released at all. Thirdly, WotC are suing Atari which means that nobody has more than a tentative grasp of the D&D license.