That's it guys, one hour left ! Hope for Lucas Arts *cross fingers* !

What? what's wrong with you pla! OMG! you think that by insulting me you just earned my respect?

HA HA HA HA!

Sad mate. Really sad.

Is that your moral code, uh? insult someone and earn respect?

And what, you're trying me to live up to your moral code now? you pretend I respect you because you insulted me.

No no no no, sorry, apparently you didn't. Because you never meant to insult me. That's right. You aren't even man enough to say I'm sorry.

Your logic is flawed. People won't respect you for being a jerk, people will just ignore you.

I just came here and though I could add something to the discussion and first thing I got is an insult. I know 99% of the users here aren't like that. But you aren't making me think being at GOG community is that good either.

Really. Nice way to take care of the community guys.

One post and I am called retarded.

Thanks TaliaKiranaLurker for letting me know about the grayed out thing in a nice way. Now that's a way to answer to someone. That's a good community member.

That's what I respect.

We so excited, we so excited, we gonna have a huge game pack release tonight!
Oh, wait... This not even Friday.

I'm betting it's Microsoft today. It's something about how they wrote "Get HUGE" that made me think of Big Huge Games and Microsoft. maybe we'll be playing Age of Empires before the evening is through?

I don't have a modern enough system to play the latest games, that coupled with my insistence of not paying more than $10 for game purchases makes GOG my only source of digital gaming goodness.

Seconded. Having to log to the client each time is a real pain (not to mention the so-called "offline mode"). That's why I can't stand Steam.

I just have a few to say about that:

Holiday sales
Weekend sales
Middle of the week sales
Daily sales

On Steam, I routinely pay anywhere between $3.50 and $8.50 for games released between 08-10 (most recently Splinter Cell: Conviction for $8 (I know, I got fleeced for the Digital "Deluxe" version)). But, for consistently <$10 games, GoG is the only place I know of.

EDIT:

Personally, for any digital distribution platform (games and otherwise)

Zune > GoG > Steam = D2D = Impulse = EADM

I realize that there's little point in getting involved in this discussion, but... I use both, and I use them for different reasons.

Gog does a lot of things well. The features that I like about Gog are that they do update these games to work on modern systems, and that I can be reasonably confident that I can just install it and go (ie, they package their updates into their downloads among other things). If it's an older game, yes, GOG is definitely the first place I'd go.

But it's not necessarily the first place I'd go for newer games. Why, you ask? Well, Steam has the seamless, automated patching of games perfected. As a gamer with a number of older titles, it's not uncommon to have to apply 5 or more patches sequentially in a row to get things running properly, and that's simply not fun when you've got a bunch of older games to reinstall. It has friends lists which I can use to join friends in-game in one or 2 clicks, server browsers, built in VOIP, achievements and a lot of other features that are well thought out and work very well. Many of these features are very handy for multiplayer online gamers such as myself.

I can understand your reservations re Steam. But, just to say - they got where they are today at least partly because they offered a superior product to their competition of the time. It's a different product than Gog offers, and I like gog too for its lack of DRM and its support of classic titles - but I'm not going to stop visiting both.

Here's one final thought, and a transparent attempt to change the topic: looking to the future, we're running out of IPv4 addresses very soon now. I haven't even heard of a single game that incorporates IPv6 networking yet; when are gaming developers going to be starting to develop games that work in IPv6? Maybe there's work being done on this already, I don't know... but I haven't heard much to date.

Get out.

I thought GOG was kind of a refugee for people who refuse to jump through the hoop of DRM, I wouldn't be so sure that the majority of GOG users (but certainly many) have a Steam account too.

Well, now that I think of it, I do have one, :D I only have Deus Ex in it, but I have one.

I could agree with you, but I have proof that I'm right.

Take a look at Atari - their games are here. They are on Steam, but their old games are not.
Someone could think it's GOG exclusive, but their games are on GamersGate.

Activision - their old games are on GOG but on Steam they released only King's Quest and Space Quest collection. Same for Ubisoft (there are no HoMM games under part 5)

Baldur's Gate (and other D&D games) - first released on GOG, much later on other DD sites (not everywhere I think)

If you were right, those publishers would go straight to Steam.

But somehow they come here, and sometimes they don't even bother to release games on Steam.

LucasArts is the only big publisher who released their old games on Steam, not here.

And LucasArts will have to join GOG to sell me my copy of Loom, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKraken, Indiana Jones, KOTOR 1 + 2, Full Throttle, Monkey Island series Grim Fandango, etc.

Maybe a minority, but our $$$ is still something they don't have.

I use Steam and GOG for all my DL/Direct games.

I use Amazon, and sometimes Best Buy for my 'Off the Shelf" boxed games.

I'm rather hoping it'll be an announcement with every publisher mentioned and not just one.

You do realize GoG doesn't sell videos or hand out unlimited (DRM-enabled, admittedly) music, right? So, I'll be staying right where I am, thank you very much.