Japanese publishing giant Capcom was apparently not keen on bringing its older Resident Evil titles to GOG. 

That's according to the company's senior business development manager Marcin Paczynski, who told The Games Business that the publisher honestly didn't see the point of bringing its older projects to the PC platform. 

“Capcom were like: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience to those games’,” he said. 

“They didn’t really see the value in bringing back the vanilla versions. It took a lot of convincing that there is an audience that has a lot of memories about those games, and would love to experience exactly the same game again. Thankfully, we were able to convince them.”

GOG appears to have been right on pushing Capcom to bring their older Resident Evil games to the platform, as they have been very successful. 

“When we launched [Resident Evil] on GOG, the reception was absolutely phenomenal,” Paczynski said. “We have 94 per cent positive reviews on GOG for all of them. And that was also reflected in the sales.

“It proved that there is an audience for this. The classical versions, the versions we all remember from our childhood, they still hold a lot of value.”