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Posted January 08, 2014
5 years is a long, long time in the Internet. Let's go down the memory lane!

The beginning of a new year is a good time to stop for a moment and take look back on your past. You take note of your accomplishments, try to learn from your mistakes, and you get all nostalgic about the days gone by. You know we're big on nostalgia, right? With 5 very successful years in the digital gaming market, we thought we'd chat about the company's history a little. We invite you to join CD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński, Guillaume Rambourg, our Managing Director, and Piotr Karwowski, our Creative Director (both of them core members of the GOG.com team who were with us for years), as they talk about the company's history, the concept behind it, and the best (and one not very good) ideas in our history.

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Thanks for being with us, dear users, and for making GOG.com the awesome place that it is! Tell us, please--what is your favorite moment in GOG.com history?

Or maybe you would like to become a part of it? Check out our GOG.com/Work page--we may happen to have an opening for a position you'd be perfect for.
Post edited January 08, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted January 09, 2014
My favorite moment is :

When GOG started supporting LINUX !!!

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wait ... they did not ??? D'oh!
Post edited January 09, 2014 by Vad3r
Posted January 09, 2014
Fav. moment is when GOG offered to get backup version of Witcher games, bought on physical media.
And it is the moment i've signed up to GOG.
Posted January 09, 2014
Oh man, 5 years already? I feel old!

Anyway, my favourite moment was the website being taken down. I was sure that this was just a prank, I mean, you guys are not assholes, right? And I was right, and it was so much fun reading all the speculation and anger on the internet :D
And especially the comeback with Baldur's Gate, hehe.
Posted January 09, 2014
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DubConqueror: My favourite moment is the first time I started up Baldur's Gate and didn't need to insert the right disk first.
> Nods < Thinking of the endless disk changes that were required both while installing and during play.
Posted January 09, 2014
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DubConqueror: My favourite moment is the first time I started up Baldur's Gate and didn't need to insert the right disk first.
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jorlin: > Nods < Thinking of the endless disk changes that were required both while installing and during play.
Back in the day I used to set up Ramdisks to avoid disk swapping. I would set aside a couple of megabytes of RAM as "B:", copy the most used files to it, and then start the game. Did this for Sierra games as well as RPGs.

I've been on GOG since the first day of the Beta (got a beta invite off Shacknews if I remember right). I'm very adamant about having a DRM free lifestyle, not just in games but in music and movies as well. So I'm super loyal to GOG. As another poster said above, I've got over 150 games, and I haven't even played them all.

Most of my favorite old games have already been released, but I'm still hoping for NOLF (No one lives Forever), and hoping that GOG will sign Bethesda and release a DRM free version of Morrowind. (Yes, I know begging is discouraged).

Cheers.
Posted January 09, 2014
My favorite moment is the GOG Book commercial. Oh yeah, and getting awesome fantastic old games with all their bits. I still remember picking up Dungeon Keeper and going, wow this has the manual, and avatars, and the artwork, and wallpaper, and hilarious dev team photos... it just keeps going! And then there are all the games with their soundtracks, and all the games just play. That's one of the neatest things. I still run into troubles with other sites, but with GOG pretty much everything just works. Plus I can fiddle around with the games to my heart's content which is fantastic. (Woo mods! Woo 85-90% success rate with Wine/CrossOver!)

Keep up the good work GOG! :D

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First game I ever bought on GOG was Icewind Dale. My CD had up and died (it wouldn't run on my new computer anyways), and I couldn't find anywhere else that had it. Then I come across Good Old Games. So I picked up IWD knowing that it was a Windows game and I was on a Mac. But I figure hey, I can try this Wine thing everyone keeps talking about. And I failed, I failed miserably. So I kind of just forgot about GOG for a little while. But then the GOGBook happened. And suddenly, everything was awesome. I picked up Dungeon Keeper, the Witcher EE, and SimCity 2000 (one of my absolute favorite games from childhood) right off the bat. And they all worked. The Witcher was shockingly amazing. Dungeon Keeper was hilarious. SimCity was just as good as I remembered, insane waterfall mountain for hydro generators and all. The instant Witcher 2 was announced I pre-ordered it. I remember waiting for the download to finish, and then installing it, and then watching the intro... and then getting booted from the game because my graphics card isn't quite up to snuff. :P One of these days I'll get to play it! And that's just fine, because even though I can't now, I know my GOG shelf isn't going anywhere. Then there was Fallout, Bard's Tale, NWN 1 and II, Torchlight, Stronghold, HoMM III, Thief, and so many, many more. I eventually became a fair hand at Wine, even better at CrossOver. A year after I had bought IWD, I finally got it to run. :D And it was worth it, to be able to play it again. It's just been... fun, GOG. Truly, fun.
Post edited January 09, 2014 by Melhelix
Posted January 09, 2014
Happy five year anniversary gog, thanks for all the awesome games. Let's also hear it for me !!! Member since August2009!!!! am clearly superior than the noobs yay!!!
Post edited January 09, 2014 by CaptainGyro
Posted January 09, 2014
I read about GOG while on the GalCiv2 forum (Stardock). I was stoked that there were tons of old games, that I could buy legally, for a really good price, that worked on my machine (I've yet to find a GOG game that wouldn't work on Win7, though some require workarounds). I started buying games that I used to own, and a lot of games that I never had money for when they were originally published. So my favorite memory of GOG was discovering GOG.

There are lots of other moments--playing games that I remembered from years past, esp. Alpha Centauri, Settlers II, Imperialism, SimCity 2000 and Colonization. And playing games that I hadn't played before, but are great games, esp. Freespace 2, Panzer General II, Theme Hospital and Lords of the Realm II.
Posted January 09, 2014
Happy Birthday, GoG.
Posted January 09, 2014
Happy Bday, GOG!
Posted January 09, 2014
Happy anniversary GOG. You guys deserve it more that anyone else in the entertainment industry.

And my favorite moment with GOG...?
Hmm...

Well, I would say it's every time I get in here and looks through the list of games. Every time it just feels so AWESOME! All the games they've gathered for us, which half of them I haven't even heard of, and the other half puts me in a state of retro childhood memory happiness thingy.
Posted January 09, 2014
Congrats on running a great gaming site GOG. Best of luck for the next 5 years :)
Posted January 09, 2014
Gog is the easiest and fastest way to buy games. There are 0 obstacles between you and your purchase. They get it. The rest of the industry doesn't.
Post edited January 09, 2014 by scampywiak
Posted January 09, 2014
My favourite moment was when they began releasing Ultima games, specifically Ultima 7. Thanks for all the hard work you do everyday to keep this working!
Posted January 09, 2014
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Elenarie: Favourite moment? When you uninstall a GOG game and it screws up something on your system. Such joy.

EDIT: When using the PC MASTER RACE crap, there are no more excuses for doing a bad job. Like said in the video, humble beginning was fun and all that, and we were all supportive, but it has been 5 years now, issues with packages should be fixed in a few hours at the most, not them being with issues for months or even years and no fixes anywhere to be seen.

From the issues that packages have caused, I have no reason to trust another package from GOG. Either X would get screwed up, or Y would get screwed up. Thus now there is no guarantee that additional issues won't show up. To not be able to trust an entity with my system means I would avoid buying from said entity.

Fix every single package to not touch sections of the OS that they are not meant to, remove silly and sorry, but, downright idiotic things like recommending users to disable UAC because YOU did a bad job at packaging the games properly, do not ask for ADMIN rights just because you are stuck in the XP era and just because you can, do not do silly things like removing freaking full Registry keys and instead remove just entries added by the packages, fix the mess in Games Explorer (either use it properly, or don't use it at all, your games just keep causing problems there)... and many other things.

This will most likely get overlooked and downrepped to hell, but I was a very big supporter of GOG during the first few years. So much money have been thrown at this service over the years. I don't know what you are doing in your offices with all that money, but there are 0 excuses for not doing a perfect job anymore.

To still be having the above-mentioned issues is just silly, unprofessional, and it makes you look like you don't really give a crap about fixing issues that are really your own fault and cause real problems.

EDIT2: Such lovely place this has become lately, see, a post criticising obvious downfalls of the service, and a second later you are downrepped and your post hidden. Thank you for even further making this place worse. <3
I have installed around 8 games since I started using this site and the only problem I remember was that the version 1.0 of the installer took long time to start. Aside from that, no problems with the 2.0 version that I can think of.

As for the UAC and admin requirements, these are old games that were developed in times before Windows 7 (obviously), which means that to get them to support UAC you probably have to rewrite some parts of their source code. To do that you need an additional team of programmers (which would most likely increase the cost of games) and the source code. I can't say for sure, but I bet the last part would be a licensing nightmare. I mean, not only you need to negotiate the removal of DRM, but also to hand over the source code. AFAIK, only id Software has released the source code for their idTech engines.
No need to escalate this.
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