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Posted June 07, 2016
Connect your Steam account and grow or jumpstart your GOG.com library.


UPDATE: Last chance to grab your games from the original list! Make sure to get them until June 8, 12:59 PM UTC.

Want more games? We've got more games! Three new titles are now available through GOG Connect:

- Kona
- Defender's Quest
- Door Kickers

You can get them until June 13, 1:59 PM UTC.



Today, we're launching a new program called <span class="bold">GOG Connect</span>. The premise is simple: connect your Steam account and add your eligible games to your GOG.com library.

Whether you're checking us out for the first time or have been with us for a while, <span class="bold">GOG Connect</span> gets you DRM-free versions of your games, digital extras, and a whole lot of freedom of choice (like whether you go with the GOG Galaxy client or not). It gets you our take on game ownership, and we say: why buy the games more than once?

Thanks to our awesome partners including Deep Silver, Harebrained Schemes, Jonathan Blow's Number None, TaleWorlds and more, you can now add more than 20 games to your GOG.com library if you previously purchased them on Steam.

The full list of games will always be available on connect.gog.com, starting with these and more:

- The Witness
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
- Galactic Civilizations 3
- Trine Enchanted Edition
- Saints Row 2
- Shadowrun Returns
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition


While <span class="bold">GOG Connect</span> will stick around, the available games will come and go. These are limited-time offers made possible by participating developers and publishers, so stay tuned as we bring new titles onboard in the future (and grab your copies before they go away)!


For a bit more library-building, a bunch of our favorite titles will also be discounted up to -85% all week long, including The Witness, Saints Row: The Third, System Shock 2 and more. You can check out all the deals here. The sale will last until June 6, 12:59 PM UTC.
Posted June 02, 2016
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Pheace: Uhhh, Steam has been allowing devs unlimited keys to hand out to owners of their games who bought it previous/elsewhere for years already. And there's no 5 day limit on that either.

The only difference here is that it's automated, and the only reason that's possible is because of Steam's openID login system that allows GOG to uniquely identify users accounts and which games belong to them, and prove they own the game that way.
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Death_Masta187: Id like to say I'm pretty engaged in gaming news and have been using steam since 2004. but this is the first I’m hearing about this. I knew about adding retail keys to steam of games that had steamwork versions but iv always been told to rebuy the game on steam when I had an old physical copy that didn’t have a steamworks version of the game. so this is all news to me.
For me it's hard to imagine you've been around that long and are not aware of it. How do you think all these games getting on to Steam are promising free Steam keys for people who own the game already?

Here's a recent example from the guy that makes Rimworld on the question of whether people will get a Steam key if they buy the game "now" (before it came out on Steam):

The specific rule is that you're not allowed to sell keys to a game that isn't also on sale on Steam.

If I was promising Steam keys, I'd effectively be selling them. I used to do this and Valve told me to stop.

However, Valve does also provide unlimited keys. And, we have a system set up (rimworldgame.com/getmygame) to distribute them instantly on release. So I can't promise anything, but I do want to give everyone keys, and I can give everyone keys. But I won't sell you a key now or a promise of one. It's a weird sort of situation, but legal restrictions can be weird.

Anyway that's all public information so I'll let you decide based on that.
It also used to be clearly outlined on the Steamworks explanation page but I can't seem to find it anymore. Basically they're allowed unlimited keys for their game to do with what they will, which obviously mostly gets used for selling through other portals (Humble, Amazon etc, you know, whenever you buy a Steam key somewhere), but they can do anything with it, including offering it for free to people who own the game already. A lot of devs have done this over the years.
Post edited June 02, 2016 by Pheace
Posted June 02, 2016
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ShaunV2: Yeah not working, this would never make me leave Steam anyways since there isn't anything wrong with Steam. Been using Steam for 8 years now.
If GoG had every Steam game I have there , I'd have spend hundreds of pounds to have the opportunity to unbind them from Steam.

You may be blissfully happy with Steam, but for me (as a father with 5 game playing children) VALVes one active game per account is a very bitter pill. I've not bought from Steam in nearly 2 years.
Posted June 02, 2016
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GOG.com: Connect your Steam account and grow or jumpstart your GOG.com library.
Fantastic idea, even when there are only a few games eligible, but of course...

"Ooops, something went wrong".
Posted June 02, 2016
I like the idea a lot, but it's useless to me atm as I get constant, unspecific error messages. Too bad.
Posted June 02, 2016
OOPS, SOMETHING WENT WRONG.

Please try again.
Posted June 02, 2016
so, was somebody actually able to make this work already? :)

or is steam just massacred by all the requests and it handles none to show us what's what? :D
Posted June 02, 2016
It doesn't detect Project Zomboid and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut. All the other I don't know if it worked or it's because I already have bought them on Gog.
Posted June 02, 2016
Sad thing is, Steam aren't exactly going to be tripping over themselves to fix the issue. So it's probably going to be completely broken for days. I can't get it to connect at all.
Post edited June 02, 2016 by SuperNinKenDo
Posted June 02, 2016
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Kunovski: so, was somebody actually able to make this work already? :)

or is steam just massacred by all the requests and it handles none to show us what's what? :D
I got it to tell me the 3 games I could get then it died.


Just looking at the number of unique posters on this thread, this service is really being used.

As I mentioned earlier I hope this is giving CDPR some hard data to show publishers to convince them that selling DRM-free on GoG is a viable option.
Posted June 02, 2016
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mechmouse: Just looking at the number of unique posters on this thread, this service is really being used.

As I mentioned earlier I hope this is giving CDPR some hard data to show publishers to convince them that selling DRM-free on GoG is a viable option.
I really doubt they'd weigh data on a limited time free drm-free handout very high compared to actual sales data of DRM-Free games on GOG so far.
Posted June 02, 2016
I get error message and I have on steam much games, I want to connect that account.
Posted June 02, 2016
yeah, I got an error too
Posted June 02, 2016
OOPS, SOMETHING WENT WRONG.
Please try again.
Posted June 02, 2016
So are we suppose to keep refreshing the page every time the error turns up or can we just turn off our browsers and let it do its thing?
Posted June 02, 2016
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Pheace: I really doubt they'd weigh data on a limited time free drm-free handout very high compared to actual sales data of DRM-Free games on GOG so far.
It's a limited time DRM-free handout for games that these people already have. If people are going to this effort to get DRM-free versions of games they already own, that should speak volumes.
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