You don't get Steam keys. The Steam keys get you!

Gabe Newell watches you sleep at night. =P

How cute!

I always love it when people start a thread asking for help, clarification or whatever and log off shortly after :-P

Probably because of jerk responses like "How cute!"

Or the fact that they inexplicably confess in doing zero research before committing financially to an obviously faulty assumption.

Which is kinda cute, in retrospect.

Could be, but the OP had logged out quite earlier.

I commented on it because I see this "pattern" quite often, even when responses are polite and helpful, and it always strikes me as odd.

Why on Earth would you think that? Did it say anywhere that GOG sold Steam keys? No, it didn't, because they don't. You really do need to check up on what you're actually buying before you buy it.

So what is it GOG actually sells, if not Steam keys? Well, they sell games. The way they provide the games to their customers is by providing DRM free installers for the customers to download, along with assorted bonus materials (avatars, wallpapers, soundtracks, making-of videos, etc.). Once you have downloaded the installer for a game, you can install and play it to your hearts content on any computer you own, without the need for an internet connection. For old games which do not run on modern OS'es out of the box anymore, GOG makes them compatible with modern systems in various ways. For instance, old DOS games are run through DOSBox (a DOS emulator) which is installed and configured along with the game, so you don't have to fiddle with it yourself.

Apart from that, GOG provides some of the best customer service in the industry, and has the best community I have ever seen.

Now, if you have only ever used Steam for playing games (I suppose some people do that), I can understand that you may be slightly confused and/or disappointed that you can't do that with GOG games. However, if you give GOG a chance, you may find that the GOG experience is one you actually enjoy. When you signed up, you should have had a number of free games added to your account. Try them out, use them to find out how GOG works as a digital distributor. If it turns out you like the way they do things, come back for more. Otherwise, chalk it up to experience. Given your stated expectation of having to go through Steam to play your games, I assume you're not here because you prefer your games without DRM. Given that, you have plenty of other distributors to choose from, many of which will happily sell you Steam keys.

Could also be because people are not used to getting replies that quickly, so instead of staying glued to the screen and refreshing the page every minute they go and do something productive. The GOG forums are extraordinarily active and members quick to reply and offer help, while on others forums it may well take a day or two before you get your first reply.

Buddy... I'm new in this site. Please, use your education.

I think every time somebody asks this you should kill a kitten.

Really? That's your reply to a lengthy post in which I explain to you how stuff works on this site, precisely because you are obviously new here? And this after you admittedly bought something without doing so much as a rudimentary check of what exactly it was you were buying?

Right, you're on your own. Good luck.

Why are people so extremly rude?

I don't know if the poster asked this to troll or seriously didn't know but to just downrate and/or post mean seems kinda immature. You don't know anything about the one posting, it could be a very lonely person or a little kid.

Some say this forum has gone bad because of trolls and new users but I think the old users who looks down on anybody who hasn't been here since 2008 has contributed a lot to this.
To see people with more than a thousand rep be so childish is sad.

I don't see anything extreme in this thread. A response isn't rude just because it doesn't start with "sorry, but ".

I see two* response which refers to the OP not doing research (which is, indeed, rude regardless of whether it's true or not), the rest are either simply factual, trying to be helpful, or looks like they're trying to be amusing.

*And one of those was a reply to a flat-out dismissal of a fairly well-written response.

That really is not an excuse to purchase something before even reading up on the website. All you needed was an extra 2 minutes to find the correct information. Instead you came here to complain. Not cool man!