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Posted October 12, 2011
We know you're busy people, but would you like to contribute to an even better GOG? How about taking 5 minutes of your time to make the GOG experience an outstanding one?

Our main goal when designing GOG.com was to create the best user experience in digital distribution ever. Many say we're doing it right, but we want to get even better, that's why we're launching a survey that will help us lead GOG in the way you'd like it to go. Taking part in it isn't required of course, but if you want to have your share in making GOG the best digital distribution service there is (or at least even better than it is right now) and maybe win a free game, devote few minutes of your time to answer couple questions we've prepared. From all users who will take part in the survey, we'll randomly choose 20 who will receive a free GOG game of their choice. Grab a pencil... er, a keyboards in your hands and answer the below questions for a better future for all of us :)

The survey ends on Thursday, October 27 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Posted October 12, 2011
I am an old gamer(pushing 60) and I truely enjoy my GOG experience. I will never buy a game from Steam because basicaly you are just renting the game from them and it works out that you practicaly need thier permission to play the game once you have paid for it.This concept of outright owning the game once you buy it and have it work right off the bat as soon as its downloaded and have it up to date with all patches and bonus material immediately available could actually catch on. What a novel concept!
In the last year I have downloaded over 100 games from this site and I already owned most of them but I bought them again because I don't need to bother trying to gat them on the newer operating systems or keeping older computers with old OS's just to play them.
Thank you GOG, Long may you reign!!!

P.S. with prices this low and so easily available I'm also sure that it actually could cut down on piracy , which is a plus for everyone.
Posted October 12, 2011
Took the survey.
Posted October 12, 2011
Hey guys! Just to let you know that I love GOG and I am a huge fan.

I have an idea for the site: to create a questing system like the one on Giant Bomb. This would turn the site into a game on itself. An RPG that gives rewards for surfing the site and posting on forums and such.

That would be very exciting since anyway we tend to surf the site inside out.

Other feature I'd love to see is fan art and fiction contests. Imagine a crowd-written novel for instance. That would be fun.

Just my 2 cents.
Posted October 12, 2011
Seems a bit goofy to show the local currency question to users who identify themselves as being in the U.S.
Posted October 12, 2011
Done. I personally would love newer games.
Posted October 12, 2011
I agree that for presentation, new games should be in a sister site. However, I would hope the sites would be integrated; e.g. one account and billing system for both sites, my gameshelf might have two tabs: 1 for my classic games, 1 for my newer releases. I just don't wan't two accounts, two downloaders, two billing sites, etc....

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snap-d: I agree about GOG is the way to do digital distribution, but GOG needs to keep it's own identity as being a place for the classic games. A sister site, like some have suggested, with the same distribution method for newer and indie games - thats fine.

There are many many old games still to come as yet - and as the years pass, the games of today will turn into the classics of yesteryear in the future (if you follow me..... :) ) - so it will be on ongoing thing.
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crazy_dave: I actually agree about keeping GOG about classic games and that they probably have several years before mining out old classics (that are good anyway). But I think the addition of a sister-storefront for new games with a unified account would be good, not detract from the special, boutique nature of this site, and may eventually be necessary.

Remember one of the reasons why GOG exists is because you could no longer find these old games anymore - retail stopped carrying them. However, in the brave new age of digital distribution, once a behemoth like Steam sells a game, it can essentially sell that game forever. So GOGs business model of making old, out-of-print games available again legally may not be applicable to new old games. We may have quite a few years before it reaches that point, but eventually GOG will run out of new old classics to sell. Yes, GOG may include compatibility fixes, goodies, and be DRM-free but right off the bat GOG's ability to differentiate itself on catalogue from the behemoth is already diminished even without a service selling new games. Of course if they were to convince console makers to allow GOG to sell emulated classic console games for the PC, then that adds many, many years to that equation. Hell would probably freeze over first though. Then again, that's probably what people thought of the entire enterprise known as GOG.com. :)
Posted October 12, 2011
I like the easy installers and online storage, as with all digital distributors. Because I hate storing, swapping or mounting disks. I also like that you can just login and get everything from the website itself. The online gameshelf is awesome. It's the main reason why I like this service.

I also like how GoG (as Steam) makes more effort to connect with the users then Origin and Impulse. And the prices at GoG are fair and in dollars, which is a pleasant addition, as it feels like having a discount on every title.
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Posted October 12, 2011
Done.

I reeeeally would love to see Good Not So Old Games and Good Indie Games here. ASAP!
Posted October 12, 2011
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precipitate8: I agree that for presentation, new games should be in a sister site. However, I would hope the sites would be integrated; e.g. one account and billing system for both sites, my gameshelf might have two tabs: 1 for my classic games, 1 for my newer releases. I just don't wan't two accounts, two downloaders, two billing sites, etc....
Exactly - two storefronts (sister sites) with one unified account system
Post edited October 12, 2011 by crazy_dave
Posted October 12, 2011
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precipitate8: I agree that for presentation, new games should be in a sister site. However, I would hope the sites would be integrated; e.g. one account and billing system for both sites, my gameshelf might have two tabs: 1 for my classic games, 1 for my newer releases. I just don't wan't two accounts, two downloaders, two billing sites, etc....
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crazy_dave: Exactly - two storefronts (sister sites) with one unified account system
But GNGs (Good New Games) are tomorrows GOGs - would you have a system where after 5 years or so they'd automatically migrate sites?
and if you had a tabbed shelf, would they move automatically there too?
To tell you the truth, I didn't really know what to answer for the 'would you buy newer games' question as, while I'm cool with them being here, I probably would actually buy them due to not having a computer good enough to run them! - I went for '3' on the scale
Posted October 12, 2011
My Chrome doesn't show the Next button. Had to lower myself and use IE. Feel dirty now.
Posted October 12, 2011
It felt really nice to support GOG by answering the survey :-)
Posted October 12, 2011
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Delixe: With respect to new games I actually said $40. Given I can buy brand new releases at retail for between €25 and €40 I believe $40 is a fair price for a digital game where the publisher has no overheads on distribution. If GOG priced new games at $40 then I would buy a lot more new games as the only option on digital is to pay the stupid Steam-set price of €49.99-€59.99 using the good old €=$ conversion rate.
I took 'new' to mean 1-3 years old, and $40 is a lot for a game that has been out over a year. I went with $20 because it is a price point I might actually pay, since my usual rule is "Wait until it goes below $20".
Posted October 12, 2011
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Bavarian: I reeeeally would love to see Good Not So Old Games and Good Indie Games here.
I'd personally love to see Gog.com reaching out to the indie developers, and possibly even those guys that are taking cash for beta and in development properties that run into trouble with Paypal and other entities that *require* product.

Sure it's a legal grey area, but as a market segment it's begging for some love.
Posted October 12, 2011
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samspot: I took 'new' to mean 1-3 years old, and $40 is a lot for a game that has been out over a year. I went with $20 because it is a price point I might actually pay, since my usual rule is "Wait until it goes below $20".
I simply took it to mean new as in brand new games like The Witcher 2. The Witcher 2 was a better deal here than other DD stores beacuse of the store credit to make up the difference. I don't exactly know where GOG is going with this but I would obviously not pay $40 for a game which costs $19.99 everywhere else.
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