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Posted March 30, 2011
The quest to retrieve the lost treasure of Ubisoft is almost over (the voting still continues). With the release of the fifth game from Ubisoft's vaults the whole adventure resulted as a great success. And it's all thanks to you GOG Heroes. We make a bow in front of you.

After the hard work you did it's time to celebrate and share the glory. Spread the word about GOG and the latest treasure from Ubisoft in any way you choose to: click on the Digg or Twitter button you'll find below (and make sure to follow us on Twitter), share the link to GOG on Facebook, write the GOG url on the toilet roll in your office restroom, run around naked in the mall with the GOG logo covering you know what, or do something else you have on your mind - just remember not to harm anyone, including yourself :) Then share what you did with the GOG community in this thread (pictures would be appreciated, but not necessary) and out of all comments we'll randomly pick 5 users who will win [url=http://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2010/12/60d51bb332445683a5acecc288919667022978a3.gif" target="blank]the good ol' GOG box of goods[/url].

And of course all GOG Heroes who participated in at least one of the quests during last few weeks are eligible to win the grand prize - a real sword, GOG branded shield and $150 USD worth of GOG games! The grand prize winner will be announced shortly.
Posted April 01, 2011
You could always go for the Oedipus method. Or maybe I'm thinking of Creon... And no, I don't mean getting with your mother or killing your niece.
Posted April 02, 2011
Tweeted here... https://twitter.com/#!/therantinggeek/status/54043260825513984

...and asked the question on Facebook about the need to pay a monthly fee for an MMORPG vs playing a classic PC game and simply outsmarting (and out-gunning) my foes (see attached screenshot)
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Posted April 02, 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/KillioxLonewof/status/54163253013655552
Here my entry, making GoG greater.
Posted April 02, 2011
You've been twitted:
http://twitter.com/#!/141stGrue/status/54207979368611840
Posted April 02, 2011
Twitted you here:
http://twitter.com/#!/Atedos/status/54360325444730883

I don't really get how it works, I don't usually use Twitter. =))
Posted April 02, 2011
Not sure if this counts, but I mentioned GOG in my master's thesis, entitled Feminist Echoes of the Gothic in Roberta Williams's Phantasmagoria, which I will defend this month. Because I'm using the GOG edition of Phantasmagoria as my primary source, GOG.com appears in the works cited. I also praised GOG in the introduction as a means of making retro-gaming more accessible for academic research.

The in-text reference in the latest draft:
"Unfortunately, because close scholarly analysis of individual games is a fairly recent phenomenon, older games are often overlooked in game criticism. This problem is further compounded by the technological barriers that often prevent older games from functioning on newer systems, even (and especially) with PC games. This problem can be resolved with software fixes such as emulators; several services, such as GOG.com, are now updating old games and re-releasing them for public consumption. This vintage gaming market is making the study of older games possible, just as reprinting older literary texts helps facilitate to better scholarship of historical texts. Older games require study in large part because they are the foundations of current gaming practice; it is impossible to truly understand games as an art form if we neglect this crucial historical perspective. " (page 10)

The references in the works cited page:
Gabriel Knight. Oakhurst: Sierra, 1993. GOG.com. Web. 24 July 2010.
Phantasmagoria. Bellvue: Sierra, 1995. GOG.com. Web. 4 June 2010.

Edit: I forgot to mention, because it's probably not relevant here, that I'm using the GOG edition of Descent as the primary source for a paper I'm presenting at the Pop Culture Association conference this year. I'm sure I'll spread the word there, too!
Post edited April 02, 2011 by Valanice
Posted April 02, 2011
http://www.facebook.com/bobby.giovannucci
Post edited April 02, 2011 by shipshape
Posted April 03, 2011
I Buzzed it to my tiny list of followers . . . dude! Sweet, I have way more followers now than last time I looked! Must be good karma for helpin' out GOG.

(Actually I've mentioned GOG before, each time I play and love a classic game I missed.)

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Valanice: Not sure if this counts, but I mentioned GOG in my master's thesis, entitled Feminist Echoes of the Gothic in Roberta Williams's Phantasmagoria, which I will defend this month. Because I'm using the GOG edition of Phantasmagoria as my primary source, GOG.com appears in the works cited. I also praised GOG in the introduction as a means of making retro-gaming more accessible for academic research.

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Edit: I forgot to mention, because it's probably not relevant here, that I'm using the GOG edition of Descent as the primary source for a paper I'm presenting at the Pop Culture Association conference this year. I'm sure I'll spread the word there, too!
Valanice wins. So much.

Also, you might consider mentioning Project Gutenberg there, as it's more of a format-update for classic texts and significantly more powerful for enabling access than reprinting is. (Ergo more like GOG than simply reprinting.)

[Also also, I think "facilitate to <X>" is either erroneous or a very uncommon usage; perhaps you intended ". . . helps TO facilitate better scholarship . . ." ?]
Posted April 03, 2011
As editor of the Retro Gaming section, I made a mention to GOG.com myself.
http://convozine.com/feed/11330
It just wouldn't be right if I didn't.
Posted April 03, 2011
Twitter!

Tweet, Tweet, Tweet!
Posted April 03, 2011
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Curunauth: Valanice wins. So much.

Also, you might consider mentioning Project Gutenberg there, as it's more of a format-update for classic texts and significantly more powerful for enabling access than reprinting is. (Ergo more like GOG than simply reprinting.)

[Also also, I think "facilitate to <X>" is either erroneous or a very uncommon usage; perhaps you intended ". . . helps TO facilitate better scholarship . . ." ?]
*blush* Thanks, Curunauth. And you're right, that's just an error. I'm working on revisions right now, and that one must have slipped past me (I think I'm allowed a typo in 140 pages of work). I think I probably wrote one sentence and spliced it to another and didn't smooth out the splice. I've fixed it now--thank you for pointing it out, because I wouldn't have caught it.

And Project Gutenberg is awesome for a lot of reasons--I use it when I teach composition to get literature that isn't in the anthology when I want it for my students (e.g., "The Raven" isn't in the textbook I teach out of). However, I didn't use any Gutenberg texts for this research (the literary works I'm looking at I happened to have in textbook form from a previous class), and the thesis isn't really about accessibility, since most of it is a close-reading of Phantasmagoria. Since here I am arguing first and foremost about the importance of vintage gaming, GOG gets the mention.
Posted April 04, 2011
Hokay, kids, we're gonna start gathering together every sigle user who participated in GOG's Hero Wanted contests. We're thinking it may be a day or so, but we'll announce a winner of the sword and shield and game credit soon.
Posted April 04, 2011
Why so long? just say that I won :)
Posted April 04, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: Hokay, kids, we're gonna start gathering together every sigle user who participated in GOG's Hero Wanted contests. We're thinking it may be a day or so, but we'll announce a winner of the sword and shield and game credit soon.
Regarding winners, will the winners of the Choose your Class round be publically announced? I've got my prize, so I know you've decided who they are, but will there be a public announcement for it?
Post edited April 04, 2011 by DrIstvaan
Posted April 04, 2011
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Ubivis: Why so long? just say that I won :)
Liar. The polls clearly show that the majority of the electorate favors me. Don't make us have a recount, please. Accept defeat maturely. =)
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