Bought it for 20 bucks, can't wait for the download to finish. :D

Finally I don't have to get my PS2 out to play it.

Even if Gog has sometime strange idea of what is considered "too niche" or not (e.g. Cave games) I doubt they would ever consider a Final Fantasy game as being too niche to be released here.

...on the other side you have Square a well know DRM and geo-restriction lover.

Personally I strongly doubt it's Gog fault in this case.

Apparently.

Well, I think it's less that it's too niche and more that I, personally, think GOG's priorities as far as devs go is in the complete wrong place right now.

Yeah, it's unlikely to see the Final Fantasy games here, Lightning Returns for example has Always Online DRM.

Edit: Sorry, seems like they changed it. My bad. `:)

IIRC FF9 on Steam was released DRM-free (i.e. you can copy and paste the folder to another computer and play it without needing Steam; no idea if they patched a DRM in or if it's still the case though), so there is still a tiny hope of seeing someday some older FFs

That's true. :)

Still no FFX cutscene skip (unless the description just fails to mention it).

Can the turbo options be used to speed up cutscenes? (Although, even at 4x speed, the cutscene before the boss I mentioned would still take 75 seconds, which is still way too long.)

To me, that isn't acceptable.

A game should not waste my time.

(By the way, have you looked at my recent posts on the Wizardry sub-forum about a couple Japanese Wizardry games? Of note, I don't think I can recommend Wizardry Summoner, but Wizardry Gaiden 3 is decent (a certain design flaw aside).)

Yes I looked. My current mood is more into Final Fantasy and Diablo-like stuff currently as I got slightly burned out on Elminage Original (which recently got ported to PC in Japan, so we might get it here soon too, as translation was already made).

I hated FFX to the point that X-2 is the first FF game I completely ignored, especially since it was likely to undo the one thing I really enjoyed about X.

All the FF games after the ones on the PSX have been serious disappointments for me(not counting the MMOs since I can't really judge those). And the whole jRPG genre has seriously declined since then too imo. Looking at SquareEnix's lineup of games on the last 2 console generations especially is almost enough to make me cry when compared to what Square and Enix had on the SNES or PSX.

I hear Elminage Original's translation wasn't that good (and, in the original release, mixed up the names of some of the races), and that the game, like Elminage Gothic, has bits of untranslated Japanese they forgot to translate.

(I could also note that Wizardry Summoner does not appear to have a translation patch; therefore, I am actually playing the game without one. Being able to read katakana is tremendously helpful with this particular game; all the spell names (taken largely from Wizardry 6/7, even though the spell list mostly resembles Wizardry 1) and all the names of identified monsters (including all the summons) are in katakana.)

Actually, the FF games from FF6 onward have been disappointments to me. FF5 was wonderful, and I think the series should have continued along those lines (perhaps with less linearity; I loved FF6's World of Ruin) instead of taking the direction it did.

No it hasn't, they just moved to handheld. Playing Bravely Second right now and it's a better Final Fantasy game than any that had that title in the last fifteen years.

Elminage Original's initial translation was actually so bad it was hilarious. But later on it was patched, so translation is OK now (though it still has some mistranslations). This game also makes sense of why it is called Elminage series.
I thought so too until I discovered PSP, it has some quite really nice JRPGs. Most of good JRPGs are being released for handhelds nowadays.