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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
Twelve?
Posted January 09, 2014
Favorite moment in GOG.com history? Too many great moments to choose just one... far too many... ^_^

Keep up the good work.

Also, did I see Heavenly Sword at 2:49/9:55? O_O
(Wasn't that a PlayStation 3 only title?)
Post edited January 09, 2014 by SpellSword
Posted January 09, 2014
What are my favorite moments in Gog? I would say that y'all keep releasing new and old games to gog.com, every moment is when you bring that lost joy back when players get to see that game again that they have been longing to play once more. The moment is where you would lower prices for gamers to buy them at affordable prices. I believe that coming to Gog.com is a moment to see how many games y'all brought back that was lost to us.

Gog, keep up the good work and hope to see this site running in another five years. Thank you for your good work! :D
Post edited January 09, 2014 by bencore88
Posted January 10, 2014
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SpellSword: Also, did I see Heavenly Sword at 2:49/9:55? O_O
(Wasn't that a PlayStation 3 only title?)
I remarked on that screenshot mock-up, too. It also showed Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Halo 2.

TET replied:

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TheEnigmaticT: 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).
Post edited January 10, 2014 by SeduceMePlz
Posted January 10, 2014
Thanks for the info SeduceMePlz. ^_^
Posted January 10, 2014
I totally forgot, my favourite part of GOG.com was seeing community ties that developed because of Insomnia sale. Whenever someone overslept a game they really wanted (sleep deprivation is bad, yo), another gogelite would simply gift it to them. People actually started buying games just in case some random strangers happened to miss them. Hell, the only reason I'm playing Jade Empire right now is due to a friendly member of this upstanding community. You people are great!

Oh, and I can't forget the formation of The Church of Jack Keane and proclamation of November 15th as the keaning day. The day Jack let us sleep - thank you, kind saviour!
Post edited January 10, 2014 by DrRoxo
Posted January 10, 2014
congratz guys! ;)
Posted January 10, 2014
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dxhaFFer: ...
Not true. There are dozens of ways to work around this. In fact, GOG specifically makes many games to ask for admin rights, even though they don't really need any admin rights at all.

EDIT: Last one I looked at was Neighbours from Hell, a few days ago when I was making an installation script for it (like to do that from time to time to add more stuff to the portfolio). Tested the games and they absolutely do not require admin rights, even when installing them in a system-wide folder they work just fine, with no leftovers written in the VirtualStore specialised folder or any other place, apart from the current user's documents folder for which the game absolutely does not need admin rights.

Sloppy work on GOG's part, I'd say.

EDIT2: Relative to what I said about other things, I would like to apologise for trolling the community. I guess I'm getting pretty bored of it myself.
Post edited January 10, 2014 by Elenarie
Posted January 10, 2014
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Elenarie: EDIT: Relative to what I said about other things, I would like to apologise for trolling the community. I guess I'm getting pretty bored of it myself.
Personally I don't mind being trolled if it's some creative trolling :)
Posted January 10, 2014
No better website for older games to play on newer operating systems. Keep it up GOG.
Posted January 10, 2014
I have truly enjoyed the existence of GOG. While I did not initially agree with GOG new focus on current games, the team has brought the same passion for games new and old. Combine that with some of the best customer service in the industry and you the place to be for gaming.

In a day when all companies reach/beg for opinions on whether I would recommend them to a friend, the finest compliment I can pay to GOG is that I would recommend you to others without hesitation. No e-mail/phone survey needed.

Congratulations on five years and may I continue to part with my money for fine, DRM-Free games.
Posted January 10, 2014
Thank YOU gog.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted January 10, 2014
Congrats for 5 years of being awesome! :D

My favourite moment? Pfffh, that's not easy. Pretty much everything is good. Top 3:

1) finding out there's a platform for DRM-free games

2) finally being able to play games like 'Syndicate Wars' and 'Crusader: No Remorse' I thought looked great when I was younger

3) seeing for the first time how great a community GOG has during the Insomnia Sale!
Posted January 10, 2014
My favorite GOG.com moment? When Wing Commander IV DVD came out here. I wanted to play the PC version of WCIV
ever since I was stuck with the PS1 version of the game and I could not find my original DOS CD discs. Now I finally have the GOG DVD version in my library ready to play, and I finally found my vintage DOS CD discs. Another favorite GOG moment is when System Shock 2 finally got released. I have always wanted to play SS2 ever since I heard good things about it and I played a bit of System Shock 1, which I hope will also appear here soon. Thank you GOG for 5 years of gaming goodness! *cheers*
Posted January 10, 2014
Thank you some much for being the company that you are. We love GOG.com.
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