Oooh :(

Congrats to GOG for making it 5 years!

I ended up here because of the link on the dosbox site when I tried running Duke Nukem I on XP I think.

How about something for those of us with questionable taste?

My guess is that one of the big games from the top of the wishlist is going to land in our laps; however I'm not one to put weight on my guesses of this uneducated matter.

yea, i remember that...

Happy long years GOG

Happy 5 year birthday, GOG, and may you finally support Linux in the near, even if unforeseeable, future :-)

Oh, it's that long? 5 years?
I knew this friendship would last a long time - 1723 days and you are still amazing me.

Happy anniversary :)

Congratulations GOG!
Wow, five years sure goes fast.

I was in a forum one day and somebody mentioned a site that was going to sell games drm free. I immediately came to GOG.com to check it out and saw Fallout 2 in the heading but it was only one or two pages (I think) inviting people to sign up for a closed beta. Signed up immediately. Then a couple of months later they sent an email asking for the closed beta people to test their purchasing system if there was a game they were interested in.
On that day, 10 September 2008, I purchased Fallout 2, Fallout & Freespace 2. I still have a copy of the confirmation email. The best online relationship I've ever had.

Also, I remember that when I first signed up for the initial closed beta they mentioned that they were very surprised at the amount of interest that their new project was generating. And now look at how big they are.

Only 5 years old?

Bloody incredible how quickly GOG has developed.

I really don't remember when or where I first heard of GOG. I had heard the name several times but never even looked at their catalog, due to my distrust of digital distribution (how naive I was). Over time I heard more and more mentions of them from more and more forums. Eventually, I decided to give the site a look. I don't know if they hooked me with the free Worlds of Ultima games but the catalog was the biggest draw.

I saw a lot of games I still clung on to in their physical bonds. So I came to realize that I wasn't the only one that had heard of or played Swat 2 or Incubation--and hey what's that--I remember the Port Royale games. And Redneck Rampage, I remember going with my uncle to pick it up on release day, and the wonderful newspaper inserts that came with it. Wait... you mean Emperor wasn't the only City Builder game??? And the wizards behind the scenes have gotten them to work on my modern computer!? GOG then seemed like some Isle of Misfit Toys for people like me. Lurking through the forums I found that there were others like myself who still loved these forgotten playthings of yesteryear. And the fact that all of this came with the promise of no DRM was just the icing on the cake.

I think the biggest testament to GOG is that it gets so much positive word of mouth. Sure, Steam may have a larger market share but would that be the case if most of their catalog weren't exclusive to Steam? I love that I can go on a dead or dying message board and see someone announce that GOG has recently released a treasure from the past. Or a Youtube video someone will come in inform people.

Happy Birthday GOG. I wish we had met sooner.

The future is always unforeseeable, isn't it? You never know what will happen, even if you may think something will happen and said thing may be very likely and, in due time, even be proven a correct guess.
Annoying, too, how Emperor is the only one in the series that isn't here yet.

Too true. That's why I still have my disc safely tucked away until GOG can make it available. At least it runs well in Vista and Win 7 (64).

They indeed do it (tho I didn't know it back then), but not in this case... There was no need to blow anything to create controversy. GOG did that on their own as you can see in Titanium's post right after yours.

That was in September 2010. Look at my date of registration. Though I heard of GOG before, that stunt draw my attention and I registered.

The one reason I came here and stayed is DRM-freeness. If GOG ever let's go of that philosophy I'm gone. Luckily so far there's no sign they'll ever do that - unlike the Humble guys did. *cough*rats*cough*

My first purchase was Duke3D when it was on sale after the stunt. Since then my library of games constantly grew to the amount of 120. I was extremely happy and confident when they announced they would sell newerish games, but except for Alan Wake, Far Cry 2 and Riddick it's been only indies so far, which is a bit dissapointing since I hoped for more un-DRM'ed AAA games, especially from the era between 2008 and 2010 when it wasn't almost exclusively Steamworks like it's today. But since GOG's quite successful and the crowdfunding boom brought a new twist to the gaming industrie who knows what the future will bring. Maybe there's still hope for PC gaming after all.

Happy B-Day, GOG. Make shure to evolve, but never forget your roots, and never ever change your politics or attitude, then you got yourselfs a loyal customer for life.