Just did a GOG survey that focused on the idea of a paid membership option on GOG. Seems they're determining what people would be willing to pay extra for. Some of the options were

a tool for backing up offline installers
ability to install previous versions of a game
extra insight into the preservation work they're doing.
voting rights on games to bring into the preservation program.

And others that I can't remember.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I would also support paying for online servers for games that have multiplayer components. That takes money to maintain.

If the developers were interested in allowing people to keep the servers running, they'd just give us the server code like they used to. If I was in charge of a GOG that was a little more flush with capital, I might fund an easy drop-in replacement library for Steam's multiplayer APIs so that developers can easily port their games to GOG and be playable, in multiplayer, offline.