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.

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 might be Naive... but I think that GOG is as good as it gets...
Better than this, would be a single pack containing every dos game ever created for a really fair place, and compatible for upcoming OS / auto-updatable.. and sneezing out gold nugets :D

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? :\

:)