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General discussion (archive)GOG.com: The First 5 Years(261 posts)(261 posts)
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Posted January 08, 2014
5 years is a long, long time in the Internet. Let's go down the memory lane!

The beginning of a new year is a good time to stop for a moment and take look back on your past. You take note of your accomplishments, try to learn from your mistakes, and you get all nostalgic about the days gone by. You know we're big on nostalgia, right? With 5 very successful years in the digital gaming market, we thought we'd chat about the company's history a little. We invite you to join CD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński, Guillaume Rambourg, our Managing Director, and Piotr Karwowski, our Creative Director (both of them core members of the GOG.com team who were with us for years), as they talk about the company's history, the concept behind it, and the best (and one not very good) ideas in our history.

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Thanks for being with us, dear users, and for making GOG.com the awesome place that it is! Tell us, please--what is your favorite moment in GOG.com history?

Or maybe you would like to become a part of it? Check out our GOG.com/Work page--we may happen to have an opening for a position you'd be perfect for.
Post edited January 08, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted January 09, 2014
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GOG.com: Thanks for being with us, dear users, and for making GOG.com the awesome place that it is! Tell us, please--what is your favorite moment in GOG.com history?
Well, that's easy, it's either when Neverwinter Nights came to the site or when Neverwinter Nights 2 came to the site. I was probably slightly more excited for the latter, simply because it meant that both games were now on here.
Posted January 09, 2014
Well, you failed to do that with Amiga... Why don´t you try it with Atari?
Posted January 09, 2014
I would like to thank you not for a few moments as they are fleeting, I would like to thank you for your long-lasting reliability. I used to move a lot (and I will move again soon) and it was very important for me that I could download and play my games wherever I was.

There was, however, one moment that was special: it was when I realized for the first time that I would have never try a lot of awesome games without you!
Posted January 09, 2014
i wish you some competitor in the field of old games because of your sneaky redirection from old games to new indies (which are available elsewhere too).
Posted January 09, 2014
Congratulations! Thanks for many great old games and few indies which I would probably never buy if not for this site (I am old and suspicious of the new).
Posted January 09, 2014
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GOG.com: 5 years is a long, long time in the Internet. Let's go down the memory lane!
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Thanks for being with us, dear users, and for making GOG.com the awesome place that it is! Tell us, please--what is your favorite moment in GOG.com history?
my favorite moment will come when I will not see any more Steam-appreciating posts here at GOG.com...
Posted January 09, 2014
at 229 game and counting i'm quite a huge gog supporter, unfortunately in the last year or two all the evolution on gog services were in direction uninteresting for me.

i'm linux based only, and gog was always a good way to buy a game cheap: if it was an old dos game unpack start dosbox and all is good; if it was a windows one, try it with wine for cheap, if it work, good else not too bad.

recent innovations in gog:
- game for mac , no use for me
- indie games without linux version when it exist and is without extra charge from the developer, a big big no, expecially with all the indie humble bunde and steam for linux that offer the same games, frequently cheaper and with linux native!
- recent/new games, mostly not so interesting as game type, mostly not so cheap to try and fail under wine, and without the selection of time that promote the true classic and masterpiece and obliate the bad ones

to sum up, i'm still a strong gog supporter for the drmless battle, but it nearly lost me as a customer for total lack of linux capability whereas the competitors make some good stride
Posted January 09, 2014
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Killshadow: In fact I still have DOOM on floppy LOL.
I remember Doom on floppy; Well I only had the demo, but I remember it took at least 3 disks, plus I remember the installer which effectively was just a copy/append with a nice looking GUI, then it ran the copied file (self-extracting archive) to install the game.

Reminds me, I looked over the configuration stuff for that installer, then adapted it for other stuff, like trying to make a splitter for internet explorer/Netscape and other installers that took at least 5-13 disks (Win 95). God that takes me back.

Course 7zip does a better job...
Posted January 09, 2014
I'm sure it was posted before, but what was that thing with the monks and the site beeing shut down?? I didn't find any sense in the story while watching the video. Maybe one of you will be kind enough to tell me what happend a few years ago :) Thanks in advance!
Post edited January 09, 2014 by althrian
Posted January 09, 2014
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althrian: I'm sure it was posted before, but what was that thing with the monks and the site beeing shut down?? I didn't find any sense in the story while watching the video. Maybe one of you will be kind enough to tell me what happend a few years ago :) Thanks in advance!
Here you are
Posted January 09, 2014
Was that screenshot with Heavenly Sword and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance a conceptual mock-up?

Such a tease... makes me want them here so much. ;)
Posted January 09, 2014
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althrian: I'm sure it was posted before, but what was that thing with the monks and the site beeing shut down?? I didn't find any sense in the story while watching the video. Maybe one of you will be kind enough to tell me what happend a few years ago :) Thanks in advance!
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JMich: Here you are
Thank you! Quite funny :D
Posted January 09, 2014
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SeduceMePlz: Was that screenshot with Heavenly Sword and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance a conceptual mock-up?

Such a tease... makes me want them here so much. ;)
For their own amusement, our design team frequently uses AAA games that are due for release in screen mocks. They're not anything that's necessarily going to come to GOG, but rather something that doesn't matter in internal usage (as these mock-ups were designed for).
Posted January 09, 2014
lol guys you're THE BEST!
Posted January 09, 2014
My happiest part was finding a place that I could get my Dos favorites without having to trawl the web and visit those shitty poorly made abandonware sites (don't know how many HOURS I put into that in the past) plus getting soundtracks from games and other stuff for free! and a cenral place that I can get them Legit! worst things were seeing games Cut from gog.com before I had a chance to get them including Obscure

All Gog need next is ONI www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjLDztxYlQ4

and the turok series including this one!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfgccVT2nBA
Post edited January 09, 2014 by fr33kSh0w2012
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