Well yes they are no longer focused on any specific type of games. They also release as many brand new big hits as they can (e.g. Witcher 3). They even changed their name so it's just "GOG" and doesn't stand for "good old games" or anything any longer. This kind of rebranding is used by many longstanding companies, e.g. EY or ASML.
These changes are normal consequences of success. At least I get more choice of vendors on top of Steam and whoever.
Also Abandonia has changed its focus over the years. Originally Kosta wanted to publish only the best quality old games. The reason was that at the time there were many other abandonware sites doing the same thing, and in particular HOTU already had almost every DOS game, good or bad. They had also changed focus, originally they published "underdog" games (good but underappreciated) but as games were added year after year they just added every game they could get. The same happened to Abandonia, after the best games were all in, we kept adding every game we could get, and at the time the archival/preservation aspect was stronger because games were becoming so old as to be at risk of being lost, the more the older and actually the crappier; and many other abandonware sites were disappearing, leaving Abandonia on top. Finally HOTU too was lost in a day, predictably after years of complete inactivity, so Abandonia kind of tried to fill that remaining void as well.
Long story short, we changed focus. So has GOG, in a commercial sense. Given the ease of software sale to fall into monopoly which can force all kind of crappy middleware and DRM, I'm happy to have extra choice of outlets for any kind of game. It doesn't really hurt you how many games there are on the site?
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