GOG reach 1000 games

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If you’ve been hanging around for a while, especially in the games tab, you may have noticed that the growing number of items on our virtual shelf was inching closer and closer to our very first thousand - lo and behold, just this week we made it through our first 1k.
We could start off by thanking the Academy, our moms, and hoping for world peace - and it's not that we don't want to say all those things, but before we do, we want to thank the most important people that made it possible - all of YOU. It may sound a bit turgid and you might not believe that we're tearing up a little as we click "publish" on this piece of news, but you guys are the ones that make GOG.com what it is and our reason to continue bringing you more great games.
Before we break out the fruit punch, though, we want to honor those of you who almost caught up with us. We dug through our records and picked fifty users that have the most boxes on their own virtual shelves.
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GG GOG hope to see you reach another 1k.
 
Unfortunately GOG isn't what it used to be. I stopped buying from them quite some time ago simply because their well of old games started drying up. Now they're just moving towards being any other old distribution platform with the simple gimmick of it being DRM free.
 
Graal said:
Unfortunately GOG isn't what it used to be. I stopped buying from them quite some time ago simply because their well of old games started drying up. Now they're just moving towards being any other old distribution platform with the simple gimmick of it being DRM free.
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There is only so many old games and it takes a while to bring old games to the windows platform and to survive they had to bring in newer games/movies. As to the gimmick of DRM free its a huge plus for me not having to worry about DRM while not online.
 
Graal said:
Unfortunately GOG isn't what it used to be. I stopped buying from them quite some time ago simply because their well of old games started drying up. Now they're just moving towards being any other old distribution platform with the simple gimmick of it being DRM free.
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No ways dude, I disagree with this completely.

First off, it would be impossible for them to run a successful business off just older games. Waving off DRM-Free copies as a gimmick is incredibly short-sighted. How many games have problems with just one type of DRM, Securom, for example? Plus, with DRM-Free copies you actually own the game. No one can take it away from you. You're just buying a license like when you make a purchase on Steam.

Not to mention, they've been killing it recently with old releases. Just look at how much of the Lucusart's back-catalog they've added over the past few months. A lot of those were first time digital releases as well. It takes a long time to talk to the right people, and get these older games re-released. A lot of them are stuck in digital limbo, so to speak. A recent example of that, read the article about Night Dives' struggle to get all the parties involved with No One Lives Forever to come to a mutual agreement. They fixed the game up, even made promotional materials, but the suits up top wouldn't take the time to go through their records, and find out who actually owns the rights to the game. It's a legal nightmare.

Plus the stuff they're doing with GOG Galaxy is really interesting. The client is shaping up nicely, and the cross digital-distribution platform multiplayer system they've developed is really good. It wouldn't surprise me if many of the older Lucas games get moved from Gamespy, which is dead as can be, to GOG's multiplayer service as well.

They've got some of the best policies when it comes to treating their consumers right, and the guys that work there have a genuine passion for what they're doing. I can't say the same for how Steam treats it's customers.
 
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No, you don't own the games you buy from GoG. Go read your game EULAs and the GoG EULA. Those games sitting on your GoG shelf are licenses, not your property. I don't know where you get the idea that this is not the case.

And I disagree. Their well of old games has been drying up for a long time now. There are only so many old games they can realistically expect to get on GoG and they're starting to exhaust their sources. They're definitely not 'killing it' with their Disney releases. Most of those games have been available through Steam for years already, DRM free. We spoke to one of their reps on RPGCodex last year and he said the increase in newer games on GoG was necessitated because they couldn't realistically hope to continue doing business as they were. It was either they started competing with Steam or the company dies.

And yes, their DRM free policy is a gimmick. The majority of Steam's catalogue is DRM free too. It's mostly just newer titles that have DRM and those games don't appear on GoG anyway.
 
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