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Posted July 25, 2019
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Maighstir: They did change from being called Good old Games to GOG.com no longer being an acronym in 2010.
I think it was 2012.
Posted July 25, 2019
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paladin181: I remember the first time I played Baldur's Gate like it was last week. Surely the game is no more than a few years old.
According to you it is only a week or so old.
Posted July 25, 2019
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Maighstir: They did change from being called Good old Games to GOG.com no longer being an acronym in 2010.
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Leroux: I think it was 2012.
I think so too.
Posted July 25, 2019
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Realentropy: Gamer: Logs on to "GOOD OLD GAMES" service

Gamer: writes a forum post "Why are the games on good OLD games so OLD?"

Passive Observer: *scratches head.
I mean you say that, but it's been about 7 years since they dropped Good Old Games as a name.

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tfishell: I think so too.
Yeah, it was 2012. I looked it up a little while ago because I had a feeling it had been GOG.com longer than it had been Good Old Games by this point.
Post edited July 25, 2019 by SirPrimalform
Posted July 25, 2019
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SirPrimalform: Yeah, it was 2012. I looked it up a little while ago because I had a feeling it had been GOG.com longer than it had been Good Old Games by this point.
Even after the years of rebranding, it doesn't seem to have stopped some people from writing out GOG as "GoG". Or the occasional yet equally bewildering "gOg" as if the tradeoff of making "old" important or not would be a dealbreaker for someone looking for a title sold here.
Posted July 25, 2019
If you find the games so old then what are you?
Old too?
Posted July 26, 2019
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SirPrimalform: Yeah, it was 2012. I looked it up a little while ago because I had a feeling it had been GOG.com longer than it had been Good Old Games by this point.
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TheMonkofDestiny: Even after the years of rebranding, it doesn't seem to have stopped some people from writing out GOG as "GoG". Or the occasional yet equally bewildering "gOg" as if the tradeoff of making "old" important or not would be a dealbreaker for someone looking for a title sold here.
I may be wrong, but I think "gOg" is just a counter-reaction to the people typing it as "GoG". And has almost become a meme at this point.
Posted July 26, 2019
Because time is the non-spatial continuum in which events occur linearly, usually in the direction of increased entropy?
Posted July 26, 2019
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Maighstir: I may be wrong, but I think "gOg" is just a counter-reaction to the people typing it as "GoG". And has almost become a meme at this point.
Seems as plausible as any other explanation. I definitely have not been around here long enough to have picked up on the nuances of things like that so I'll defer to those that have.
Posted July 26, 2019
I don't know what the OP meant :(

GOG only has these "old" games here:

https://www.gog.com/game/egypt_old_kingdom

https://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_knights_of_the_old_republic

https://www.gog.com/game/celestian_tales_old_north

https://www.gog.com/game/aer
Posted July 26, 2019
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TerriblePurpose: You have a join date of 5 years ago. Are you seriously saying you don't know what this site is all about?
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TheMonkofDestiny: Almost as if the person using the account now might not be the same person who signed up for it originally.
Could be, or someone(as some here have done) signed up years back and hardly ever used it...like those who sign up to get freebies and major deals.

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DubConqueror: Two reasons:

The store started off as Good Old Games, with the intention of releasing old games that were hard to get and tweaking them so they would run on modern systems.

When the store expanded into releasing new games as well (which GOG needed to do for continuous income), many publishers of 'new-ish and AAA level' games, are afraid to put their games on a DRM-free store as they (falsely, I think) believe that putting DRM on their games will get them more sales (they get pirated otherwise, is their reasoning) and they only release their older titles here, that already had many sales but will get a second life because of people wanting to get them without DRM. Proving release without DRM is a selling point, therefore making their first argument moot, moreso because games get pirated anyway, despite DRM.
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moobot83: people will pirate games, if they have DRM or not, but why should i support developers who despise GOG and its users mere existance they dnt deserve my money they can bugger offf
Because the games might be very GOOD and buying them will encourage them to make more such games and less crap like we have now? ;)
Post edited July 26, 2019 by GameRager
Posted July 26, 2019
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Sachys: of course, if you're not a fan of turn based games, then perhaps the cutting edge rpg Akalabeth might be more your thing?
Maybe Akalabeth on the contrary is too modern and fast paced for him?
Posted July 26, 2019
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Windfall37: I've been looking around the store and most feel quite old either from the pre-3D era or very early 3D which make them look like non-cubic Minecraft. Is there anything new-ish and AAA level?
All I hear is: MULULULULULULULUL (Wah iz gaemes soe owld)
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