This is awesome! Ubisoft has a pretty big catalogue that should last for months.

Wouldn't an upsurge in buying their old stuff DRM free be a good indicator to ubi that they've turned down the wrong path and may serve as a wakeup call that turns them back to the light side of the force where they make solid tactical games and top class adventures again?
Voting with the wallet is an excellent strategy but this may be the wrong time to say no.

an eloquent summation

Hmm..they're somewhat overpriced... most of them can still be bought in most online stores like Amazon for a lot less than that, and even the usually overpriced Steam have several of them for £4.99.

HOW DARE YOU!

Ooh!
Here's hoping for a release of HoMM 3 soon!

well now gog has a shark not just mutated sea bass and pilot fish

Oh no. I'm pissed over their complete disregard for PC gamers. And their attitude towards the POP community. Region restrictions, at least for Ubisoft, are a joke anyhow (there's a very easy loophole [friend in US]), but after their "business reasons" for restricting PC gamers from the actual ending of POP, they get nothing more from me. I simply refuse to support a company that has now made it known that they can and will restrict main storylines from systems at their own whim.
To make that worse, they now just brush off the entire deal with sarcastic comments (just check the huge thread on the issue on the official POP forums for proof of that).
It's that attitude to their customers that wins them my wrath and loses them my money.
By the way, region restrictions may not be a big deal to most of the world, but when you live in a country that has no real established main stream PC gaming market (meaning no PC games sold in stores), it's near impossible to buy games without having to go the importing route (expensive import tax, shipping problems, and less and less companies even allowing it (such as EA) so on and so on).

I just got 9.99$ poorer..

Lots of potential with Ubi here now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubisoft_games
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing XIII, the Rayman games, any number of the Clancy games... heck, Morrowind is even a possibility now. I might give that another shot at GOG's prices.

These games aren't going anywhere probably (and the only I would have been interested in in the currently available batch, I already have thanks to a friend in the US gifting it to me. And Ubisoft need to impress me far more to win my custom back. A public apology for the way they treated their PC POP customer base, for example, would be a good start.
Simply flooding all DD services with their games (they also released a bucket load on GamersGate this week), isn't enough for me. Sorry. And that's the last I'll say on the matter in this thread. My aim is not to derail the thread, just to make my own feelings known. And I've done that now.

It's great that Ubisoft finally joins GOG. And with two masterpieces! I bought Prince of Persia, even if I already own the "Prince of Persia Triple Pack" with the last trilogy.
The main problem with these games is that they are overpriced. Both have been in the bargain bin for years already, and there's been many opportunities to get them for free or dirt cheap. The last of those offer was particularly colourful: Buy cheese and get BG&E for free!
http://kotaku.com/5156988/want-beyond-good--evil-for-free-buy-some-cheese

this is a big announcement.

Roll on Silent Hunter 3, Splinter Cell 3 & Peter Jackson's King Kong sans Starforce!
Oh, and Conquest: Frontier Wars & Settlers 2: 10th Anniversary :)