Duplicates of games you already own? What I mean by this is do you own a physical copy of the game but opt to buy a digital copy when GOG releases it? If you do, for what reason?

I've done this for a few of the games I have. The main reason is I like the digital aspect. I can put it on my NAS and install it whenever I want. I also don't have to worry about losing it or needing a disk to play. I'm also very happy with GOG so I like to support them when I can.

I've done this with quite a few games, for various reasons. For instance, UT2004 and Painkiller. It's just so much easier to install the GOG versions, than to sit there swapping tons of CDs during installation.

No, but I would.

Many boxed copies I have require a fdd, and I don't feel like popping a floppy drive, in my machine, just to load an old game.

I have. And I plan to do it more.

It's much more convenient than having to install from disk and then add a crack.

Besides, disks don't last - I learned that the hard way :(

Almost half the games I have here I also have (or have had) on disc.
Space in the house is at a premium & my wife (Lovely though she is in many, many ways) keeps boxing stuff up & hiding it in the loft.

When I had Win XP 32-bit as my base platform I would very rarely buy duplicates. I'm not one to see much convenience out of avoiding swapping CDs (once installed, that's it, with the possible exception of Baldur's Gate) so I never had any real reason to buy duplicates.

Since I've shifted to Win7 64-bit though duplicates of games with 16-bit installers have become indispensible. My main reason for using GOG remains the rarer games like Ultima Underworld though.

I've otherwise only really bought one game as a replacement - Redneck Rampage - as I through my own carelessness managed to snap my CD in two. You'll find this is a topic that has been dragged back and forth on the forums.

By the way - you wouldn't happen to have gone by the name "spongeroberto, lol" on Raptr or Steam, would you?

I would guess that up to 3/4 of my GOG collection is sitting somewhere at home. At least in Germany it was very easy to get a good retal deal / ebay / cover mounts for many games in the early 2000s.

Therefore I mostly consider the games I have here as a "service fee" to have them backed up online and always available and running on Win 7. That being said, if I didn't like GOG I would never made those purchases, but simply used my old discs to make isos and do the dosbox magic myself. But every buck I pour into GOG looks like a good investment.

Yes, a few on the Christmas sale. The compatibility tweaks and constant backup are worth a few dollars, and I'm glad to do so because i've already lost the disks in at least a few cases.

Currently I think I only bought the Fallout series on GoG which I also have on CD because I missplaced the CD they were on.

However I generally don't buy repeat copies if I have a working CD copy. I see no need to own twice what I already own and works. Thus far I'm lucky in that most of the GoG games are also running fine on my computer in their CD form - if GoG were to bring out Homeworld Cataclysm or Metal Fatigue I'd probably jump on them for working versions (although I think with both its graphics cards rather than OS software that is the death nail for them --- sadly I might have to wait till "retro gaming PCs" are being commercially sold on the market)

Did this with HOMM3, Rayman & Beyond Good & Evil. I intend to continue as GOG get their hands on the rest of games I have in my physical library. :)

I still own my copies of dungeon keeper 1 and 2, both crusader games and realms of the haunting and redneck rampage and duke nukem 3d not to mention the boxed wing commander trilogy and I have purchased all but the dungeon keeper games. My opinion is that I am not purchasing the game as much as paying someone to get it running in DOSBOX for me. I hated using dos even when it was new.

My original copies of fallout 1 and 2 still work on modern systems so I have no need to purchase another one.

You see this every day to be honest.

People buying Digital to replace Retail. GOG to replace Steam. Steam to replace D2D/GG/GMG, Retail to replace Digital.

When something 'better' comes out in the eye of the beholder eventually I'm sure they'll rebuy their copies for that as well :)

I have the originals of my gog games, its just nice to have access to versions that are patched to win 7 and no need to have the disc in the drive.

As drives get bigger/more efficient/longer lived it makes GOG all the more desirable as the installers for many of the games are small or take at most a few GB(which is negligible on bigger discs). As such, someday I hope we'll be able to store entire gaming libraries of installers(and game directories) on single drives. Wouldn't that be something? :\

:)