What you announced 2 days ago motivated me, and i went to a retail store and i bought The Witcher 2 : Premium Edition (bronze coin inside woohooo).

Could we have that for more games that are already on GOG?
I have Painkiller Pandemonium and i know that the Discs will fail me soon enough. It would be great if i could verify the serial and have a digital backup copy!

This week's announcements and promos were GREAT! Keep up the good work and bringing us more awesome games and discounts!

I believe they can make this for Witcher 1... but don't think they will do it for other games that are not published by CD Projekt Red :)

Now what makes The Witcher 2 so special, that puts it aside from every other game (apart from TW 1) ?

That should answer your question.

They will do it... but I guess they are kinda busy already with the release of TW2 for Xbox 360 and alll the new stuff going on GOG

CD Projekt, but wouldn't it be awesome if they agreed with other developers/publishers for this too?
It's certain that most of the big names won't jump on the wagon, but they can try that for most of the pre-2005 games.

Eternal respect to GOG anyway.

I doubt they can be bothered: it takes plenty of time and yet yields no revenue for GOG nor the IP holders. Also, people are such children that they would end up whining anyway when someone with the re-release DVD version of Planescape: Torment receives a digital copy but someone with the four-CD jewelcase doesn't.

Just buy the games off GOG. They're not very expensive, and since you own the game already you should have plenty of time to wait for a sale.

No.

How would they verify you have the game? And how would they verify your friend's game isn't yours? There's nothing unique about games back then since they barely used CD-keys and the like.

The second question was for if you were going to argue 'Well I can send in a photo of my CD!'

If you only look at CD-keys then it 'might' be possible. That's assuming those developers kept the key database around for all those years and weren't lost went the company went under and rights transferred etc.

HL2 is activatable on Steam isn't it? I don't see a high likelyhood of that one arriving on GOG any time soon.

And for the others. Just adding a game to a digital download service, there's costs to that for the service. Gog would be paying for that in one way or another. So most likely there'd have to be some deal arranged with the current owners of the license. Even then in general, it may simply not be worth doing.

Essentially, he's asking how GOG would know if the copy you have was yours as opposed to your friend's copy which you've "borrowed". CD-Keys won't work for this, as CD-Keys can be shared as easily as game install disks.

EDIT: Ninja'd. :)

Half-Life 1 also allows the possibility of registering it on Steam.

Screw the how would they verify you own it argument. The bottom line is that NO they won't and NO they shouldn't. Does anyone think it's fair they should have to lose money for your own personal gain? I don't.

The only gain, and that is why EA is using it, is to get GOG more known and used. But GOG doesn't have a client, so the additional digital backup wouldn't get you go own the GOG page more often.

It would be a highly stupid move by GOG to do this. They are doing it with TW 2 because in that way they can get a lot of people to GOG, but the crowd that owns most of the older titles already knows of GOG.

Doesn't what the OP's asking basically equal to a free game from GOG?
I know he's got the games on CD, but that buy didn't create any revenue for GOG as have the sales of TW2, right?

Please feel free to correct me if I got this wrong.