Posted October 02, 2023
Prah: But the question I have for everyone today is, how and when did you find out about GOG?
How about you?
A friend of mine sent me a link to a GOG freebie for Tex Murphy Meanstreets/Martian Memorandum back in 2009, so being a fan of Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive, I made an account for the freebie and signed up for their newsletter. A few times after that I got an email notificaiton of another freebie and went back to the site for some more free games. Sadly, during those visits I never really looked at the store beyond the freebies, nor what GOG was all about. How about you?
But then in autumn of 2012 the DRM-free phrase caught my eye on the storefront page and a link to the page that tells you what GOG is all about and I read it fully and was like... wow, how did I miss this all this time? This is a store with consumer friendly motto that is delivering a good thing, I need to support this!
So... in October 2012 I started buying games on sale, and after a few smaller purchases one of GOG's big mega sales came on and there were TONNES of games I wanted for like $2, so I went on a shopping binge and bought 57 games all in one purchase and broke their shopping system which was hard coded to accept orders of up to 50 games only for some reason. LOL I got an email back from support telling me this and apologizing, then they gifted me the 7 games that went missing from my order even though they didn't charge me for them in the first place. I would have been happy to just buy them in a second order, but had a great experience with support plus the free games.
Thus began my GOGdiction. My only regret is not receiving a wall mountable plaque for breaking their shopping cart system with an order that was too big. Who would have known that up until that point, all of their customers were just n00bs. LOL