So you ARE a troll.
The goats are under the bridge.
The toll you can charge is two copies of B.A.S.S.
Kindly go offtopic, down to the dry riverbed, under the bridge and start doing what you do best.

In 100% agreement also (I'd add JudasIscariot to the list though) - I also "loved" GOG in the past (even re-purchasing games to support it) but that time has passed. Whether GOG is willing to roll back its changes to recover its original magic is very much an open question.
And why did you choose to post under a 0-game account then? Was your other one banned from these forums? Or does this topic so embarrass you that you don't want it linked with your "main" account? (assuming that isn't a 0-game account also).

I joined for the old games and I stayed for the offñine installers.

Well, it's simple, because the offline installer. I don't like having to go online just to play the games I bought. It's tedious.

Well, someone has to!
What if no one loved gog? What kind of world would this be then?
A world without LOVE! (towards gog)

I think this explains it the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibyuyDn7m4

You can think of that dark-haired chick as gog, and that man with a mustache is Gabe Newell. And the soldier-type guy is me, of course.

I have no idea who that red man playing the piano is supposed to be, though. Looks like Elton John to me.

They said they want to focus on the original route they had so only time will tell.There are plenty of classic games missing like prince of persia 3d,black and white etc.....there are ways to play them but i want them here

The About page pretty much sums it all up for me. Games you actually own, goodies (though I agree it is annoying to see more games releasing them as paid DLC), the option to use offline installers or to enjoy a solid game client, great support (yes, I've always had great experiences with them), a very personal approach whenever you interact with GOG staff and, of course, the fact that they have so many great older titles that actually work on modern systems.

Everyone knows they're not perfect but I'd say they're certainly the best option for PC gamers and I'm not looking for perfection, just a company that displays a care for the customer and a desire to be open to improvement.

Storage is dirt cheap now. Cloud storage even more so. ZERO worries about GOG going out of business. Whenever I buy a game I immediately download the installer, throw it on my NAS which has redundancy which automatically uploads it to my cloud storage so triple redundancy. Use the tools at your disposal.

Like others have said, I don't "love"(or hate) GOG. As to why I stick around......

Besides the (usually awesome or at least decent) community, I also like:
* The frequent sales(good when on a budget)
* The (usually) easy to use offline installers
* Some of the game releases are decent, and a few open my eyes to nice (old/new) games
* etc etc

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As to your list: What do you mean by best? Because some games are bested by other stores' versions(like zoom platform, where some games like Postal Box Set come with more content). Beyond that, GOG versions of older games often have the original exes/other files removed, making it near impossible(unless one sails the seas for the missing files) to run them on older systems/hardware. (underlining mine)
It's totally optional, yes.....until you want to play multiplayer, or use an older game installer version(both of which require galaxy to accomplish).

I would not say "dirt cheap". Even a 2TB mechanical hard drive runs around $50. Given the sheer size of games these days, combined with some GOG libraries being hundreds of games, neither cloud storage nor physical backup storage is particularly cheap.

Not dirt cheap, but affordable if you are middle class or higher.

Not when you got close to 10TB of games it isn't.

AWS glacier would cost me about 8$-10$ a month, which is pretty afforable (until I need to download my games if my local backup goes kaput anyways... then they'd hit me with their download cost which would be 700$-900$ for a collection my size), but it has some important access restrictions that need to be taken into account.

Backblaze B2 would be about 40$-50$ a month which is not horrible, but I wouldn't call it a negligible expanse.

Regular AWS S3 would be about 4x the price of Backblaze B2 and that is starting to get pricey.

However, none of those options are as cheap as a pair or redundant drives. It just fulfills a non-local redundancy requirement and because of the prohibitive cloud-to-internet transfer costs clouds tend to have, you use them strictly as a backup and hope you end up not having to rely on it as it will cost you a fair amount of money if you do (but if you end up needing it, the transfer cost is still a preferable alternative to losing all your games).

Because?

Yes, I've started investigating my cloud backup strategy as you can see above with pricing in mind as my collection is rather large.

However, I'm quite busy with work (and have been so for the last ~4 years) and given that GOG currently provides me with redundancy and I got a redundant RAID 10 setup locally to complement that, its not my most immediate priority.

It is something that I'm easing into as time allows.

TeT.....now there was a good fellow.....if he was brought back I might just give a bit more of a darn about this site again.
(would also like to see stuff like the french monk character/videos grace the site once more)

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Do ya? ;D

Sound like self projecting

I have it turned off so people cant see my games.