I guess that depends on how much overspecialization is welcomed here.

Heh, I like that idea of comparing DRM to an allergic response. :D

GOG will always be Good Old Games, the whole idea to re-brand themselves as something else is a fools errand. Being associated with nostalgia is not a bad thing.

Nice article. Thanks for sharing :)

If they'd just replaced one single letter (Good Ol' Games), it would also have stood for quality in a wider sense, applicable to new games with the potential to become classics, too, as well as hinting at a favorable relation (between the customers and the products, or the community and GOG).

Besides, I'm no marketing expert, but I'd assume that words triggering certain associations will stick in one's mind easier than abbreviations or even acronyms. I could be wrong there, but I have a hard time imagining something like gog.com (without a meaning behind the letters) will be able to compete with a name like Steam when it comes to people who've never heard of Good Old Games before.

Even though Steam has Morrowind....and Arma 3...and Dragon Age Origins...and Total War :(

If GOG gets bigger, we'll get those too. Also, many of the Total War games are DRM-free on GG.

Nice read, Roman, thanks.

Aye, nice read indeed. I also found out about Project Eternity from reading that article!

This has been on my mind recently. When you think about it, since the release of the Ultimate Edition, there really isn't much reason for DA:O to not be on GOG. It's DRM-free, the achievement system is built into the game itself and there is no longer any need to connect to EA servers for DLC. Not to mention that it's now well over 3 years old, so it's not exactly new anymore either.

Morrowind and the older Total War games especially have no reason not to be here.

But you know, this topic kind of makes me wonder if it is possible for games that rely on Steamworks API to just be released without it on other DD stores, even if it means losing functions like multiplayer. Granted, this would be kind of pointless with multiplayer-heavy titles, but I don't think anyone would mind if SP-heavy titles would be released without such features.

Bethesda seems infatuated with Steam at the moment, so Morrowind (and other Elder Scrolls) and Id titles are unlikely, Alan Wake was a Steamworks title before it arrived here (achievements and cloud saves got kicked away in the process, obviously) and GOG is still the only place that sells a non-Steam edition of it, so other Steam-exclusive titles are a possibility (and that possibility likely increases depending on how many people buy that title here as it would show that there is a market for de-Steamed editions), Dragon Age: Origins is a valid query, likely EA wants to keep selling it for $30 (and €30 to us Europeans) while GOG thinks that's too expensive for it today.

Thanks for the link. I dunno about that. It's been over two decades, and as far as I'm concerned KFC is still Kentucky Fried Chicken. :p

There's an interesting discussion about that article on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1fiqa3/gogcom_interview_drm_solves_piracy_like_a_bag_of/

"The most important thing for me is that games like Fallout 2 are patched for compatibility. I bought it from GoG just to skip the hassle of trying to make it work with my PC, and I got extra goodies to boot!" - e4excellence

Now that reminds me that as of Dec. 31 Interplay loses the rights to sell the classic Fallout games. I hope GOG has worked something out so that they can keep selling it.