Happy B-Day GoG!

Good Old Games is why I'm here, and today's releases are a good bunch. Several I have been looking for for a while.



Too bad this is the year you decided to abandon your anti-DRM and pro-consumer stance in favor of a "like Steam but worse" position.

Not the way I would have gone.

It's a very common pathology: constant, gradual shifting of goalposts, while at the same time claiming nothing has changed. Press them hard enough and they tell you they're "looking into it". Almost like they don't have the ability to communicate honestly, and I see it everywhere in our world.

If there's one thing that made me smile about this anniversary "party", it was seeing the faces (even Vencja's comicbook face!) of GOG's team members sharing their individual games recommendations. A big thanks to each of you guys for that: Richard, Vencja, Maciej, Tania, Bartek and Wiktoria! :) I enjoyed reading your entries.

Apart from that, it is with a heavy heart that I acknowlege GOG's 13th Anniversary. Wishing you a Happy Birthday, but feeling too disenchanted to be celebrating.

Anniversaries might be a good time to reflect back and remember who we are and where we came from and how we survived the journey leading to present day. An opportunity to reconnect with our roots.

Thirteen years ago, you inspired a community of gamers to believe in DRM-free. And here we are now, tables turned, trying our best to inspire you to believe in DRM-free too! Hopefully, we'll inspire you enough. ;)

The real question is do we need to track down TeT and make him eat his hat, or is the hat eating attached to the job? Does the current M.D. need to eat their hat? Do they need to eat TeT's hat?

To benefit from the experience, to actually learn something, my advice would be to also use an SRS Spaced Repetition Software like:
Anki
Mnemosyne

Both these are great pieces of software to create flashcards with. It is possible to add clips and pictures to your flashcards, so depending what it is you wish to learn, a sentence, a word, you can create translation exercises, words or whole sentences, for instance. You can create a grammar and vocabulary deck and so on, depending what you wish to memorize. Soon enough you should be able to go EN->EN without translation-crutch EN->PL. This can be useful to grasp something of course, for a translation exercise, but generally you should always aim to use an EN->EN dictionary and add and memorize english definitions for words. A great opportunity to dive into the wonderful world that is Etymology.

Just make sure to have fun learning, don't add hundreds of cards per session, think of a good card structure, what goes on the front and what on the back of the card, work with all your senses, write down words during review, read words out loud, speak sentences, use stickies and put them on items and tools surrounding you, this will soon bear fruit and before you know it will you have mastered the language.

For further information about flashcards and spaced repetition there are numerous resources out there. Since there is no way knowing what type of learner you are, you will have to find what best matches your way of thinking. Again, have fun, because each language you are able to master will unlock a part of the world for you. A cornucopia of knowledge, wisdom, fun and exciting things to discover. :-)

Happy birthday, GOG. I bought a lot of good games here, stuff I wanted for quite a while. Good thing Hitman wasn't one of them. Still gonna wait on La-Mulana 2, seeing as I haven't finished the first one.

Happy 13th anniversary GOG. Even though I've become more worried about the state that you're in at the moment. You've been my primary storefront for the last 8 years. I bought games at higher price here (and even double dipping for some games) with hope that I can support our ideals. Or what used to be our ideals. I am disappointed. But still wish you all the best.

You should've fuck DRM. Not make love to them.

And would you please kindly resolve this situation with agent 47? That would mean a lot.

So, time has come and I want to write some thoughts on this event. GoG team, GoG brand, CDPR (as sponsor of all this) I want to greet you with 13-th birthday. This year is not so great as it should be! I think all people understand that. Lot of circumstances affected our habits, lives and leisure (of course Corona - mostly). BUT that's not reason to abandon own principles - I'm talking about DRM-FREE CONTENT. Recent incident with Hitman release showed that Gamers ready to unite around the problem and prove that GoG store doesn't need DRMed projects / half-free-DRM projects.
That's why I want to say !Thank you! to all not indifferent Gamers that helped to expose this GoGs misstep. Only if we all will defend our rights - GoG store will hear Us!
I really doesn't know how many people are behind GoG project, but in recent couple of years service of Support became incredibly slow and awful. Sometimes I needed to wait about 2-3 weeks for response on major problem! and that's really bad - I address all of that to you - GoG team. Even if you cannot help me to solve problem immediately, you can write that my inquiry in progress, but you doesn't do this!!! Only if you need to refund purchase (really garbage game / game port) - you may wait for ansver for about 1 day. That's plus!
BUT sometimes if you open inquiry with description of MAJOR BUG in Store's work - it may be closed with no reason without any discussion! That's really disgusting GoGs behavior! GoG team / people behind GoG project DON'T DO THAT!!! That's The real reason for me to STOP buy games in GoG store and I can without any another choice to expose such your behavior to the general consideration. After that Gamers will decide your fate!!!
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P.S. I don't like to write such posts with "flight analysis" - how people say in my country, BUT YOUR - GoG personnel - BEHAVIOUR, doesn't give me another choice! I really hope, that in future there will be less / none occasions for such posts!!!
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P.S.S. My favorite saying - "Think 7 times before something doing"! GoG team, maybe you need to start follow this saying...

Happy Anniversary GOG! :)

Besides what I wrote before, want also to add that you (GoG team / project) approached celebration of !Your own Birth Day! without any interesting entertainments: I remember times when on every celebartion (Summer sale / Winter sale / Autumn Sale, etc, etc) Main page turns into something special (WITH GREAT ARTSTYLE, I can say even in air was something joyful and merriment), there also was enjoyable Pinyata Day (Week) celebration.
But all this gone!!! (don't know forever on not...), even Steams last celebrarion with some minor entertainment - quest where gamer could determine the fate of own character and get fun answers (just like in D&D) was BETTER then your last events!
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I really don't understand what has happened to those GOG store - full of fun and joy - as I knew it before (couple years before)!??

Also there are not so many Games involved to celebration and of course % of discount not so good as it should be...

From Vorador to You: Cheers GOG!!!

Happy birthday, dear Team :)

These are some highly-voted releases too. Unfortunately it seems people aren't willing to buy the DOS versions.

Happy Birthday and long live the DRM-free!

That's what I'm talking about. Hades, where are you? I need you on GOG!

Will there be recommendations from LexRust and / or St.Ross? (: