For the umpteenth time:
I don't remember quite exactly when I read about it the first time. Possibly sometime in 2009-2010, reading about some site selling older PC games. I wasn't fully sure if it is a legit site or a pirate site, but I figured maybe it is legit then and thought "neat". I didn't check the site then though, maybe i felt I already have quite enough old PC games as retail versions.
Then later came the news that CDPR will remove DRM from The Witcher (and TW2?), and I took great interest to those news because I recalled hearing good things about The Witcher game years before, and getting it without DRM sounded like a dream come true, almost too good to be true.
At that point I also learned they are selling the game(s) as digital downloads on that same GOG.com site I had heard about before, so I checked the site because being able to buy a downloadable version instead of a retail DVD sounded even better. First I thought there is some catch, but turned out there is not.
About GOG's marketing stunt in 2010 about closing down the site for three days... I don't recall ever hearing about that back then, but it is possible I saw some articles about GOG.com due to that stunt. Still I feel I really didn't learn about that marketing stunt until reading about it here on the GOG forums, older GOG users talking about it like some kind of war or army stories.
The first game(s) I bought from GOG.com as a kind of test how the purchasing system works for me: on June the 27th 2011, M.A.X. + M.A.X.2 bundle and the Castles 1+2 bundle. Apparently it took me three weeks or so after that before making my next GOG.com purchases.
The games I came to GOG.com for originally, The Witcher 1-2, I apparently didn't buy until August 19 (2011) when TW2 was on sale for $29.99. I bought also the first The Witcher game at that point, for the default price of $9.99 (not part of a sale), and a bunch of other games.
Post edited February 29, 2016 by timppu