I don't know if I like this new site. I mean, what's going to happen to all of the abandonware sites?
Isn't free still better than cheap?
First of all, not every game can get the GOG treatment for various reasons. There might be no methods available of getting them to run in XP/Vista without their source code (which may be lost or unavailable), their license owners may be unwilling to allow them to be sold on whatever conditions GOG puts out, etc.. So abandonware sites will always be able to cover games that really remain abandoned forever and they'll just keep the now-commercial entries there with downloads disabled (at least the abandonware sites that care to remain legal anyway).
Second, it's actually free and often troublesome versus cheap, trouble-free and with various extras. This would really interest me, for example, if they offered an XP-compatible WH40k: Chaos Gate, which apparently doesn't have any real XP fix anywhere, or maybe Star Fleet 2, which is out of synch on modern computers, even with DosBox, or perhaps Dungeon Keeper, which also has some speed problems with modern hardware. I consider it more like paying for making them playable on modern computers without problems than paying for the games themselves.