I joined GOG.com on 29th of September 2010, so today is my 5th anniversary.

Among all registered users, September 2010 might be the most common join date (besides May 2015) as it was the month they pulled their infamous shutdown publicity stunt. A lot of the older users were pretty pissed about it, and I totally understand that. But for me it was the key impulse to finally look into this thing and realise that it's something I want to be a part of. Partially for the Good Old Games, but mostly for the DRM-free. In fact, at that time I was on the edge of completely abandoning PC gaming. Steam was all over the place and it seemed there were only two options: Get along with it or gtfo. GOG was my light at the end of the tunnel, and supporting it was the right decision. Cheers to GOG and all of us who support the idea of unrestricted access to the games we legally bought and rightfully own!

Now here's the annoying part: I intended to make this a giveaway, naturally. But my stupid credit card seems to be on strike again, so I haven't been able to buy anything during the last week. I have a few spare codes left, but none of them is really appropriate for this occasion. Have my word, as soon as my card is working again I'll grab something worthy. Check back on this thread when you see it back on top in the near future.

edit:

There has been some delay due to credit card malfunction and Fall Sale hysteria. Apologies for that. But now I'm finally ready to kick off the giveaway.


What's in for you?


Metro 2033 Redux

Metro: Last Light Redux

Ultimate General: Gettysburg (thanks to DeMignon for the generous donation!)

Way Of The Samurai 4 (thanks to Gnostic for the generous donation!)


How do you participate?


Just vote for Prey on the wishlist and confirm that you did so by posting "Prey for [insert title of the game you're in for]". The winners will be chosen by my liking after a few days. In order to participate you'll have to be registered before July 2015 and have to have at least 20 rep.

October 2010 had quite a limited selection of releases:

Icewind Dale Complete
The Temple of Elemental Evil
Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne
Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Edition

Could also be Planescape Torment, released on September 28, 2010.

That's entirely possible.. or around then might have been when I finally felt like I had some money.
I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday, so anything from back then is long gone :P

Wasn't 2013 a quite common join date?
The Fallouts GA was a big one. :O

I'll have you know I showed supreme restraint and only stabbed two people over that incident.

I joined in December 2012 due to the Duke Nukem giveaway, a friend of mine told me about and now I have been stuck here since then.

I joined here, mainly because a game was given away. At that time I was an opportunist who got free games no matter the platform, Steam included. As my profile says, I first appeared on the service in June of 2013.

Then, I ended up where the OP is now; Steam is all over the place, and tons and tons of sheeple are praising it, and rebelling would've only ended with the sheeple seeing me as crazy for talking about how broken the program is plus how forced down your throat it is, and how it doesn't really let you own the games. Ending me up in the same crossroad: Steam, piracy, or get the hell outta the PC. I then realized that GOG.com is the right decision.

I chose that decision myself. It let me. I chose to own my games from there. It let me. I chose to play the games I bought here on any range of PCs I own, both offline and online, with only the internet needed to download the game in question. It let me. It let me be in control of everything regarding my games, a stark contrast from Steam, where Valve is the controller and you're the controlled.

At the moment, I'm desperate to strike a deal by selling some of my now useless Steam keys for a copy of Terraria on GOG.com. Besides the Battlefield series and whatever games I strike on the house on Origin, DRM may screw itself and its loyal sheeple. I wish for GOG to continue improving and house even more games while keeping DRM-free games as the selling point.

GOG is the only religion! :P

yay for gog! hooray! I still haven't played NWN expansions. I'm gonna! yaaaaaay

The one true GOG?

Congrats on 5 years!

Right on!

Amen brah!

So many years ago today… ah, my fellow GoGer is up and dressed I see. Today is the High Harvest Fair, and the West Harbor village council requires me to man the archery competition. The human need to celebrate remembrance days baffles me, but at least something productive may come of it.

Seriously though, good for you. Those were dark times when the choices we value so highly as PC gamers seemed to grow fewer by the day. I too was close to packing everything in and moving to greener pastures.