I recently found out about GOG.com and I was absolutely amazed!! When I found out about the site and seeing all the old-school games on here, I immediately bought Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. My reasoning for purchasing this for only $5.99 USD was because I played it growing up and was one of my first PC games. I was about 7 or 8..I'm 22 now.

So I shared the links to GOG on Facebook and twitter and then decided to come back. This time I came to look for Conquest: Frontier Wars, another great RTS game I grew up playing. Well I just found it about 10 minutes ago and purchased it!!

So this is some what of my thank you letter to GOG/CD PROJEKT RED.
Don't stop what you guys have here, this website is amazing!


So, how did you discover GOG and what was your first purchase?

Some day in march 2015 I read something about a game selling website which is now available in german language too with some great offers to celebrate the german translation and forum (e.g. The Settlers II Gold Edition, Deponia (97% off))
I never heared of gog.com before. So I came here and bought some classic games from the promo and stayed here for the old games.

It found me.

I first heard about it in a print magazine - they ran a story about a then infamous stunt where the website appeared to have died. This wasn't great PR for loyal fans, but I looked them up and joined a little while later.

When I first saw the games on offer, even back then, it felt like opening King Tut's tomb!

Blame Torchlight.

First heard of it on Demonoid, first purchase was the JoWood catalogue on promo, which was 13 games for $24.37

Right around the time the store opened - maybe before, maybe after, can't remember - there were a couple mentions in PC Gamer magazine. Took me a while before I finally checked it out.

I don't remember where exactly, but it was through some news site, announcing the gog.com initial beta was going to start soon.

It caught my interest and I got in. :)

If I recall correctly, I am one of the first 100 users (or at least I got gifted a game once when gog.com decided to give the first 100 users a freebie, years ago). ^_^

It was mentioned on a forum that they were giving Torchlight away for free (and that said game was made by the creators of Diablo, as I hadn't heard of it before) so I signed up for that.

Didn't really pay much attention to the site until I was looking for somewhere that sold Dungeon Keeper and found that selling old games was GoG's forte.

It was a gamespot article that brought GOG to my attention. I think it was about when they're stating DRM doesn't work.

News on the polish site, checked few times but didn't registered (as I didn't had credid card back then) till they did 1st giveaway (it was Jagged Alliance i think and I missed it anyway :P).

At the time I was very active in the Neverwinter Nights community and this contest lured me in. Good excuse to finally try my hands at the toolset, with a purpose. The first five games I got from GOG were actually the winners' prizes, but in order to select them, I had to browse GOG's entire catalogue, and I found a lot more games that I was interested in than just these five. I also got sucked into the forum immediately. Those sneaky bastards! ;)

Anyway, the games I chose as my prize were another copy of Neverwinter Nights, Psychonauts, Beyond Good & Evil, The Longest Journey and Sanitarium. The first batch of games I bought with my own money soon after were Arx Fatalis and Syberia 1 & 2. With the exception of NWN and The Longest Journey (the German version of which I had already borrowed from the library two times but never actually finished), all of those were games I never had the chance to play before, not games bought out of nostalgia. I didn't have a powerful gaming rig, so these slightly older games with lesser system requirements were very welcome. I think I also created my PayPal account specifically for GOG and once I had it, I started buying digital games from other online stores as well. Before that, I was mostly collecting freeware and abandonware and only bought old games from the bargain bin once in a while. GOG turned me into a paying online customer with a long shopping list and no interest in abandonware anymore. It's all their fault! ;)

But the actual reason why I joined GOG I can't remember, because when I got lured in by the contest, I found out that I had already created an account here, half a year earlier, without even buying or downloading anything. It will forever remain a mystery to me how that happened. :D

they were giving away broken sword in 2010 i read it on some where gamespot or ars or whatever and looked into it

I've been here since 2011. but it took me 2 years to finally create an account. I didn't post much in the beginning but now i'm daily here mostly because community is awesome and i love GOG mucho. <3

Can't remember how i heard about GOG.com though, it was long time ago. >.<

By entering www.gog.com in the address bar of my browser.