I'm having trouble with a decent title that grabs peoples attention. Sorry guys, I guess that lame one will have to do.

After literally a minute ago posting a comment on the Alice: Madness Returns wishlist posting, I realized through what I said that, "I don't own my store bought, physical copy of the game.". In more than likely a year or two, EA will decide to end the servers for Alice, and it will be unplayable...which got me to thinking...
(I also realize it is ludicrous to expect companies to run servers on 30 year old games, I just mean my SINGLE PLAYER GAME that SHOULD NOT require internet does just that, require internet.)

Gog is possibly the best website for any gamer period. DRM-Free shouldn't even be a problem, and I'm glad that these guys are on the forefront whereas the majority blindly follow Electronic Arts', Ubisoft's (I realize they've revoked it now), and Activision's DLC and digital media copy protection garbage, and call it "the wave of the future", as Jim Sterling so elegantly puts it.

That however, isn't the point. (To be clear, why would I argue about DRM on the website that doesn't have it?). My biggest problem is that gog, no matter how hard they try, with immense support in every fashion, won't be able to procure the licenses for every game we want. So how on Earth can I show my children and grandchildren the video games of yesteryear and how my passion for this once archaic and niche medium and build a bridge between generation gaps? What about people who met and spent the rest of their lives together on gaming, what if their children expect the same when it isn't there?

Now, let's put the fact that the video game crash is happening right now and that the industry is probably not going to come back and have giants go down in flames and realize that in the future, we'll recall these games and say, "Hey, do you remember that game?", only to have your friend agree and wish he could PLAY it. Copies of these games will become just like old ones too, few and far between (hopefully not priced through the roof like every drooling moron does on ebay. "Earthbound for the SNES. Super RARE." even though there are a few HUNDRED THOUSAND copies floating around the united states...) and will not be sold forever. I wish companies had back catalogs. Gog essentially is a back catalog and what every game seller should be, offering you the entire gaming experience, but they cannot turn water to wine and build Rome in a day.

How do you feel about it? I mean, PC is already left behind console gaming, as well as the fact that we probably wouldn't have games if it weren't for Steam and Gog. Would you want a world where you have to accept video games as usual and outdated technology and not a form of art which gave you something no material possession could?

Quick note,

If you are going to debate my post, by all means do it! I enjoy having my perception challenged and you learn new things by being corrected...however think about it, and read and UNDERSTAND what I posted. I have seen on every forum I've been across, people who think they're the cat's pajamas using straw man as a form of hierarchy and internet genital growth (I mean the size of their ego, not what you thought you sassy thing!) to downtrodden the original poster and stroke the aforementioned "use a better analogy than genitals". Folks, this is the internet. Nobody is going to think you're a handsome intelligent stud or a foxy Cleopatra because you have a five star rep on a forum and have some form of control you don't have on real life.

I also do realize I am not a very nice poster and like to point out other poster's...judgement lapses. Again, internet.