I just want to thank all the people at GoG, for taking the initiative, and starting a store based on trust, rather than mistrust.

Trust is a topic dear to my heart, and my dislike of all things DRM is legendary.

Treat your customers with respect, and they will reward you. That might not happen overnight, but it will happen eventually, I promise you.

So to me GoG is like a cool fresh breeze in an all too hot & hostile landscape, that includes the like of Steam and other types of DRM. All DRM of course is built around Mistrust, Greed and Delusion and other false notions.

Those who use DRM, believe that it is a small price to pay, penalizing all their customers, for the small number who get something for free. They cannot abide someone getting something for free, so they penalize us all, rather than trust that the greater majority will do the right thing, and that the bad folk don't really matter in the overall scheme of things.

So I applaud the GoG initiative. Long Live GoG!

While I am in the process of praising GoG, I would like others here who use their services, to reflect on just how lucky we all are. In light of modern times and ever more pervasive DRM, GoG is an unusual institution, that we need more of.

I see complaints from time to time here, because PC Game Support is an imperfect business, and so things go wrong. It could be a lot worse, there could be no GoG.

Please reflect on just how lucky we are, even though you cannot get a game to work properly, or on Win 64 bit, or it is missing some mission pack, or has some online issue or limitation, etc. Things could be a hell of a lot worse.

Time generally fixes most things, and really, all the consoles out there, many now defunct, all came into being, because nearly every PC is different, and so many games need to be adjusted to work on each and every PC, and sometimes they just fail to do so. If you cannot cope with that, then perhaps you should use or stick to consoles.

Long Live GoG!

Agreed, while there are many flaws and cracks are starting to show, GOG is still holding together as the best DRM-free store there is. Lets hope it stays that way.

Cheers!

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Yep,cheers as they are abused in some threads about their jobs/site and numerous other things but don't reply and if they do read them,just turn the other cheek.So ya,good on them.

GoG have been around for quite a while now, and so like all things that age, cracks start to appear, and like most games, they eventually get patched.

However, with time comes expansion and clutter no doubt, and trying to keep up with everything becomes harder.

Heaven knows how they keep up with it all ... keep tabs of all the changes ... not just updates or patches to games, but OS too, including video cards and drivers.

Someone(s) obviously must do a lot of research or rely on the input from others or most likely both. I am very impressed with what they do anyway, and if they do rely on others, it is probably fair to say, those others may on occasion be the weak point, as the examples of diligence by the usual crew are many.

There are just so many factors at play, that it all too easy to lay blame for something, that might be misplaced. I imagine that there is a certain amount of automation being done, set up by humans, who inevitably make mistakes or misunderstand instructions from above, etc, etc.

Sometimes, I think we all need to take a big breath and take a step back, and especially reflect on the mentality behind GoG, and not be too eager to assign evil deeds or practices, for what is really an unusual store and I dare say, philosophy..

Cheers indeed, having control over your games is half of the happiness in buying them :)

Certainly when it comes to the unknown future or circumstances outside of the narrow parameters of those whom inflict DRM.

I've never had control over Dark Reign. That game is impossible! :P

I am having trouble understanding what you mean exactly?

When DRM gets in the way, that's it, you are totally reliant on others for a solution. Without DRM you can attempt all sorts of things.

I would question your notion of 'those few rare moments DRM still gets in the way these days'.
That might be true for some, especially if you apply narrow parameters, but going by the complaints going back for years now, not everyone shares your experience. I know I don't.

And I say that as a reluctant Steam user, who stopped playing new games years ago, because of Steam ... one of the reasons anyway. I like most in my area, only had a 56k modem connection back then, and to play some games, you had to wait days for the updates to download. If I had known what Steam was, I would never have bought the games.

I only recently started using Steam again, because now I have a far better web connection. It still gives me grief occasionally. Not all of us are blessed by a great web connection. Most people I know have connection issues from time to time for one reason or another. And if you are wanting to play a game and you forgot to place Steam in offline mode before shutting it down last time, and your son's Xbox One is hogging the bandwidth or Netflix is, etc. then it goes from being one of impending joy, to angst and eventually anger at the stupidity of DRM.

I even made a purchase for the very first time (knowingly) from Steam a few days ago. Bought the whole Valve Collection for around $20. Some fantastic games there, that I can only get via Steam, so at that price, I said screw my principles, take a chance. I will only ever buy from them, when I have no other choice, and a game is dirt cheap, where I am prepared to accept a possible loss one day. I generally don't even look at games though, if I know they are only available through Steam.

I <3 GOG

Here you go,low rate this post too.

So then what do the letters in GOG stand for?

Apparently, they stand for Good On GOG.