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nemt: I hate to be negative, but I think the invite system should be permanent. A completely public system would likely result in all the games being distributed freely within hours.
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rgx: Too late, I've already seen pirated copies of Gog games and it's not like I was looking for them.

If they are or rapidshare or something like that maybe you can report them. That way rapidshare takes it of sice it violates t.o.s. i think.
some people are just dicks. people doing that don't help anyone, it just shows that some people are happy to support DRM.

I don't see how pirating a non-DRM game somehow equates to that person "supporting" DRM.
I wouldn't be surprised if people working for rival companies like EA did it to try scupper GOG, it's just senseless otherwise to make special "gog editions" of downloads when just about all old games are available illegally already.

Do you really believe this? That there's some huge conspiracy by the big game publishers (e.g. EA) where they are committing extremely illegal acts just to bolster the argument for including DRM on games (or something)? I don't buy it, especially in this age of anonymous ethics reporting and the ease by which an employee could leak incriminating documents (e.g. Wikileaks).
Post edited October 15, 2008 by clamiam
Piracy sucks, but I'm sure people were already able to pirate all these games before. Going public isn't going to make piracy from this site go up.
The guys at StarForce have been known to help spread cracks and pirated copies of non-DRM games. I wouldn't be shocked if the SafeDisc people did it also.
Exactly. I think I read SecuROM admitting putting "bad stuff" into games and being proud of it. What's anybody going to do about it? Nothing of course.
I can probably get all these games and more illegally if I wanted to. However, I'd much rather support a site like this which provides real value to customers in making it easy and safe to get these good old games, and even making these games easy to play on Vista and Vista 64 without having to fuss with DOSBox, etc. And in making games that can give many hours of great play available to cheaply too.. Basically, there's nothing I don't love about GOG so far, so I'm happy to spend the money.
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clamiam: Do you really believe this? That there's some huge conspiracy by the big game publishers (e.g. EA) where they are committing extremely illegal acts just to bolster the argument for including DRM on games (or something)? I don't buy it, especially in this age of anonymous ethics reporting and the ease by which an employee could leak incriminating documents (e.g. Wikileaks).

Are you kidding? They've seeded pirate sites with bad cracks; put malware-like copy protection on their games (do some research on SecuROM if you're not familiar with what the latest version does to your machine); openly admit that they want to move to an Average Revenue Per User model; EA has stated this will be the last year in which they sell off-line only games; they want to kill the second hand game market because for some reason they feel games are a special case so they should get a cut of second hand sales as well; they're the ones that use the limited activation scheme that still - after months and several game releases - advises you to buy another copy when you run out of activations as opposed to actually advising you to contact tech support for another activation for free. Yeah, I can actually imagine them doing something like that.
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Hochler: They're probably waiting for one more publishing deal before going public, they want a bigger library.

Totally called it. :D
Post edited October 23, 2008 by Hochler
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Hochler: They're probably waiting for one more publishing deal before going public, they want a bigger library.
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Hochler: Totally called it. :D

Good Job mate! You a winna!