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Posted February 03, 2010
So, just throwing this out there, but if GOG were to have the option to download via Torrents, would anyone here use that method?
I'm just curious because I recently fell in love with my uTorrent portable app.
Posted February 03, 2010
As long as it stays optional...sure.
Posted February 03, 2010
If you mean torrents from their site yes I would. Torrents are very convenient and very fast, just very insecure. It would be real easy to distribute the .torrent files and then people will be getting in the legitimate swarms and no one would be the wiser.
So in the end, nah. Torrents are only good for illegal or free stuff, Ubuntu for example of free stuff.
Posted February 03, 2010
Interesting idea. I'm happy with the browser based downloads, so it wouldn't help me too much. Unless it would somehow help ease the cost for GOG, then I would use it.
Posted February 03, 2010
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tb87670: If you mean torrents from their site yes I would. Torrents are very convenient and very fast, just very insecure. It would be real easy to distribute the .torrent files and then people will be getting in the legitimate swarms and no one would be the wiser.
So in the end, nah. Torrents are only good for illegal or free stuff, Ubuntu for example of free stuff.

Well, that is a good point. But I think GOG users here are pretty legit when it comes to DRM free games and I think Torrents from the site wouldn't harm them at all. Still, you never know.
Posted February 03, 2010
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Rohan15: Well, that is a good point. But I think GOG users here are pretty legit when it comes to DRM free games and I think Torrents from the site wouldn't harm them at all. Still, you never know.

Well I know that it only takes one in a million users to upload it then no one ever needs to buy again from GOG. If I was running GOG or any digital distribution business, of course I would go no-DRM but I wouldn't be also putting up a torrent for my files and products which are already DRM-free and nobody would have incentive to buy. That's sorta like whacking off before seckz, if just defeats the purpose.
Posted February 03, 2010
If they offered the capability I would probably seed, but I like using the GOG Downloader and would prefer to keep using it.
Posted February 03, 2010
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tb87670: Well I know that it only takes one in a million users to upload it then no one ever needs to buy again from GOG. If I was running GOG or any digital distribution business, of course I would go no-DRM but I wouldn't be also putting up a torrent for my files and products which are already DRM-free and nobody would have incentive to buy. That's sorta like whacking off before seckz, if just defeats the purpose.

Who's to say there isn't already torrents that people made using this site's games? I just think that if GOG made torrents to download from their servers, we could get faster files from a more secure host.
Posted February 03, 2010
I went looking through trackers all over the extranet one time and found that the only heavily torrented/rapidshared/usenetted GOG games were TOCA, OpFlash, Colin Mcrae, and the Fallouts. Even then, there were little to no seeders or leechers and the comments section was filled with statements like "you shouldn't really be pirating from companies that trust their customers"
Posted February 03, 2010
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SirEnity: I went looking through trackers all over the extranet one time and found that the only heavily torrented/rapidshared/usenetted GOG games were TOCA, OpFlash, Colin Mcrae, and the Fallouts. Even then, there were little to no seeders or leechers and the comments section was filled with statements like "you shouldn't really be pirating from companies that trust their customers"

I think that's one point I can back up. I still think it is BS for the games to be pirated.
Posted February 03, 2010
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SirEnity: I went looking through trackers all over the extranet one time and found that the only heavily torrented/rapidshared/usenetted GOG games were TOCA, OpFlash, Colin Mcrae, and the Fallouts. Even then, there were little to no seeders or leechers and the comments section was filled with statements like "you shouldn't really be pirating from companies that trust their customers"

It's interesting that 3 out of 4 games you mentioned are not available in GOG anymore... :D
Posted February 03, 2010
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SirEnity: I went looking through trackers all over the extranet one time and found that the only heavily torrented/rapidshared/usenetted GOG games were TOCA, OpFlash, Colin Mcrae, and the Fallouts. Even then, there were little to no seeders or leechers and the comments section was filled with statements like "you shouldn't really be pirating from companies that trust their customers"
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Catshade: It's interesting that 3 out of 4 games you mentioned are not available in GOG anymore... :D

Which is probably the reason they are in demand.
Posted February 03, 2010
I seem to recall suggesting a secure torrent deployment a while back so we can help spread the load and give everyone higher download speeds, the general consensus at the time was that publishers would see torrent and automatically say no because of the piracy association (sounds like a peg leg club)
Posted February 03, 2010
Yes, I think publishers would be terrified. They are enough as is.
Posted February 04, 2010
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tb87670: ...That's sorta like whacking off before seckz, if just defeats the purpose.

Chris Elliott from "There's Something About Mary" begs to differ. :)
Post edited February 04, 2010 by HampsterStyle
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