Found out on in news section on a Russian gaming site that i can redeem Witcher 1 for free.
First game i bought - "Gothic 2: Gold Edition".

Lars Doucet sent me.

I always was both a PC gamer and console gamer since the sega master system days. My brothers had PCs and my friends consoles, and there was some good things on both, even if I leaned a little toward the PC. So the drought of the PC gaming market around 2007 was a big sorrow for me and I became for five years a sad console only gamer, chasing what little good games still subsisted on it at the time...
But 2012 changed about everything : while all of the console market was going to hell with the actionification of all RPGs and the total disappearance of strategy and adventure games, there was the splendid resurgence of the old school PC market on kickstarter and I turned myself again fully toward the PC (I was also quite fed up with first and third person games...).
During the Kickstarter of (the now named) Pillars of eternity, people were throwing tantrum all over the comment section for a drm-free version (aka when is GOG Obsidian !!!!) of the game. There was also a link in the same comment section to a sales of the dnd classics on here. I was hesitant at first, because I already played plenty of them and, at the time, the french version wasn't availiable. In the middle of the craze of the time, I succumbed and bought the package :) .
One other thing at the time was that at first I didn't have anything against steam. I was pretty neutral on the thing, the steam process didn't seem that bad to me and I looked happily to the possibility of marrying the two libraries. So I made a point at first to back project on KS that was both on the two platforms to test the two and see by myself. I backed Defense Grid 2 (both the first game and the new ones were and are still steam only) and broken sword 5 which was GOG only at first. I also took a pledge for the old broken sword games on GOG to test the waters. I installed first Defense grid on my laptop and went on vacation in a faraway place without internet : disaster prevailled and the damn shitty steam thing wouldn't launched at all and I was damn furious... On the other side, the broken sword games was excellent, and working right out of the box...

And this is the story of how MacArthur became a GOG shill :)

"Free Duke Nukem 3D" thread on some board.

I have posted that many times, all those long years, but i HAVE to say it once more... I discovered GOG by chance, on Pir---B--! I had been a dedicated pirate, salty seadog, ever since DRM crap started hindering me, ever since agreements started screwing the gamer/buyer and ever since 9/10 of the physical retail games i purchased demanded Steam and contained only activation codes with half-finished files on DVD (that needed connect to Steam to finish the install, let alone play). A free soul as ever, i dedicated myself to piracy and in deep waters too, yarr; ideologist and morally conscious corsair, not your average, mindless land-lubber!

Until somehow i noticed some torrents said "GOG version". Curious as ever, i tried some and was amazed, they used to run without installing shady files, with better performance and a plethora of good points that i noticed immediately! Then i visited the webpage and saw the main 3 things GOG offers and abides by, the most important of which is the DRM-FREE element, something which i always wanted/needed and the absence of which, drove me to piracy. Another thing that also captivated me is that OLD games are TWEAKED and worked upon, so they can run in modern systems and have great optimization and GOOD support service, unlike, cough, certain others, cough...!

I immediately started buying, obviously! I even bought games i owned already, either in steam, or in retail and proceeded to abandon ALL other versions i owned, deciding to keep only GOG's! I couldn't resist a DRM-Free collection, in fact i CRAVED it, i NEEDED it, i always WANTED just that! The only thing others deprived me of, leading me to illegal "solutions" in order to get just that which i wanted, was the main thing this wonderful service offers to EVERYONE! Today i have a quite big collection here and i love each and every piece! I am saddened only by the absence of certain titles, even worse that some are technically oldies too and i am forced to have my beloved series here, incomplete. I prefer buying here and more expensively, or even full price, while others to have neither modern systems optimization or DRM-Free sell dirty-cheap... I simply INVEST my money here and vote with my wallet. Another key feature is also that YOU control which version of a game you want. You can manually download and apply patches at will, there is no obligatory client, mandatory auto-update and only latest version by default, such as other certain services impose on users; Galaxy has even the rollback feature (to previous game versions), hm!

Lately things happened and i abandoned piracy altogether. But regardless, i never pirated anything GOG's. Even the games i DID download once from torrent and tried them out, to this day, i have bought ALL of them and even MORE! Welcome on board and have a nice stay!

OK, I will. :P

There was an article on a gaming site that I no longer go to that was saying how Fallout was being given away for free. So I signed up, got it and lo it worked well. I pirated a few games afterwards to test them out. I was very happy with the front end they were doing and the games ran well. So I bought them and many many more.

No complaints. Leaps better than Steam save for some new releases that I can't play anyway since I use a toaster. Most of them suck anyway.

When I bought HL2 in a store it came on 6 CD's (they were sold out of the DVD version) that took ages to install, only then it brickwalled me because I had no net connection.

Not a good start to a company/customer relationship.

I was playing the AGD Interactive King's Quest remaster and I saw an ad on their website which showed a bunch of neat old adventure games being sold here. Saw a similar ad on Adventure Gamers. Couldn't resist after that.

And there was no warning of an Internet connection requirement on the original box. The very idea of a single-player game not having the opportunity to work right out of the box, its ability to run being tied to third-party software, was abhorrent to me. I spent the following years wandering the desolate gaming landscape seeking out games that had no such restrictions, sidestepping numerous major titles which released with online requirements and activation limits (usually 3). People all over the world were funnelled into EA’s American customer service lines because they lost activations for so much as swapping out a graphics card, games were packaged with aggressive software that actively harmed computers, user reviews plummeted. Remember Spore?

http://www.amazon.com/Spore-PC-Mac/dp/B000FKBCX4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1456784863&sr=8-2&keywords=spore

I don’t recall exactly how I came across GoG, only that it stopped me from walking away from PC gaming altogether.

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I wanted to buy the witcher 2 after having played and beaten witcher 1. I was pretty active on the witcher forums actually. Then they announced witcher 2 pre-order and the best way to buy it (to support the devs) was through GOG. But GOG used paypal and I had no paypal account. So I made a paypal account and preordered The Witcher 2.

My date of joining is a big hint ;)

Mountain climbing buddy retweeted a sale.

I knew about it since it started. I only joined not too long ago because of having only recently jumped onto the digital bandwagon. There was a time when my ownership of a game demanded a physical copy. But digital can be cheaper and more convenient, and for many games it is the only option or only reasonable option. Also, a physical copy can be meaningless when it demands DRM such as Steam. So now I am part of the GoG flagship as my primary choice for a game distribution platform. Full speed ahead!

Found GOG existed in some article i was reading...

The first Witcher was my lure. I read about it somewhere and was really interested in the concept of a mature RPG with tough and morally ambiguous choices. Since I dislike Steam, I went looking for alternatives and found my way here. As chance would have it, I arrived just in time for a freebie (Dungeon Keeper) and a sale. I got System Shock 2, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Dungeon Keeper 2, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri, but not The Witcher. =)

Thus I got hooked. I got the first two Witchers eventually, and loads more games. The backlog is huge, but I've battled through a hundred or so of them already. ;)