I agree with lukasthegreat - I paid for them once, I'd be glad to pirate them if I had no access to them anymore.

I cannot see any reasons to pay again for the things I already (should) have got.

GOG games are not a hassle to store.

On a 1TB hard drive, you can store at least 500 which is A LOT less space than 500 multiple-DVD boxes.

If GOG were to shut down, I'd leverage my GOG games for as long as I can (running them on current Windows and then on emulators of previous versions of Windows if they came to exist).

After that, I'd most likely pirate them since I've already paid for some of these titles twice already (once for the DVD version, once for the GOG version) unless the pirated version involved some commercial labor that needs to be remunerated (ex: porting the games to a modern OS), but then I'd need to have access to the games for a commercial price that is low enough that I could reasonably assume that I'm mostly paying for that labor and not for the IP again.

I'm one of those who owns many games on disc but still have been buying digital versions of them. The main advantage of this is that it now gives me a hassle free backup. Take Neverwinter Nights as an example. I've got the original campaign as well as SoU and HoU on disc. The DRM has already been patched out of these retail copies so that's not the reason I bought them again here (for a change), and I've already made myself backups of the all the CDs (which I used instead of the original media so I could keep them out of harms way). But now I can toss away these backup CDs, and just keep the downloaded version on a couple of removable hard drives. And re-installing games is such a breeze now. No waiting for downloads or having to shuffle through CDs when I'm in the mood to start a new game. And I'm one of those who buys games long before I can find the time to play them. I might only play some of those games years after I've bought them. I've got a boxed copy of System Shock 2 which I still haven't got to... and feel increasingly guilty about it everytime I see it on someone's wishlist.

So if GOG.com closed down, I wouldn't have to rebuy any of the games I've bought from GOG as GOG has already provided me these games in the format I desire.

And unfortunately they keep doing so. Pretty soon my collection of DRM free games is going to eclipse my collection of DRM'd games as I'm finding less excuses to go and buy them now.

Sigh! So much to play... so little time...

Keep at it GOG! I like being spoilt for choice.

I'm only 16 and never had one. Please tell me what it feels like to have a life.

No. I have the games backed up already anyway. I might create a secondary backup though. Just to be on the safe side.

No. I would try to be sane for once and purchase one game at a time, actually play that game to its end or until I am tired of it, whichever comes first and only then go purchase another game to play, do the same thing, etc.

I would say goodbye the collection/backlog and just play one game at a time as I acquire them.

At this point I would very likely being doing this on console as well so it wouldn't even be PC games anymore unless some PC exclusive title interested me and would run on whatever hardware I had at the time. For other than Good Old Games, I think my PC gaming days are numbered.

LOL, well, having slayed many a beast and leading the battle against the forces of evil in order to right the Empire's wrongs....Oh, wait, I think that's from Oblivion! Seriously though, just as long as you have friends and Girl/Boy friends, you already have a life, so enjoy it!

Most probably : no

The good thing with GoG is to have a single DRM-free package already fully patched to the latest (and most probably final) version that can be easily backup-ed.

Nowadays storage space is so cheap that having a backup of GoG whole catalog is very easy and inexpensive and I am glad that I am not yet lazy enough not to do it.

The only thing that would make be re-buy stuff on another site would be if I wanted to support them for something they do, like for example if like GoG they were selling all their stuff DRM-free.

No, I will just pirate them, finish them, and forget that I ever bought them somewhere.

Well, tbh, it is not much different from what I am doing right now anyways. Once I finish a game, I don't play it anymore... 60-70 games left in the backlog, I doubt I'll want to play any of the finished ones anytime soon (or ever).

How many GOG games that you still are going to install and play do you have? Just trying to figure out if it is something like 5, or 150.

If GOG perished and I still have my backups, I would not rebuy them, unless the new digital versions offer some significant advantage over the older GOG versions (like full Win10 compatibility).

If GOG perished and I lost all my backups, I might buy some, possibly pirate others if possible etc. Depends on many factors like how easy the option is, what risks there are, and how much the new service is asking for the games I already own. If they offer all my past GOG games very cheaply, I might buy them again from them, just for the support, online backups etc. (instead of pirating them). Depends. I have no problem at all keeping a backup of GOG games on a couple of USB hard disks. For physical games, I agree it can be quite a PITA to keep track of them and store them somewhere. I don't quite get your point. Are you saying that installing a game from a local installer is more hassle than (re)downloading that same installer from the net, and then installing it?

I don't normally rebuy my CD games from GOG unless I have some serious compatibility problems with the CD version, or the GOG version is dirt cheap, in which case I am basically paying GOG for a non-CD crack and all the released patches in one. The latter is the reason that I've now bought most of the GOG games (from promo discounts mostly).

Having an online backup of my games is not that important to me, if I have a DRM-free installer on my backup HD already. The file on GOG server is merely another backup copy in case I indeed lose my local backup.

Nope. I have all my GOG game installers saved and also backed up to an external drive, so there would be absolutely no need for me to re-buy anything I bought here. The only exception to that is if a new service was offering a version of the game with some kind of added value, such as compatibility with whatever operating system is being used in 10 years.

That's a very good point. I've never replayed any game I own yet. There's always too many more I haven't even started on to do that. Although I might be making an exception for Morrowind sometime coming up. Even there though it is only because I never did the main story quest that i want to go back and do that plus I want to play the expansions this time around. When it was new, I went nuts taking over the world and stealing everything including the complete contents of the Vivec treasury. After over 100 hours of that fun I stopped and never did get back to it.

I back up everything I buy and the beauty of GOG is that once it's backed up, I pretty much don't need GOG for that particular piece of software anymore, unless the back up is somehow destroyed or misplaced. Thus, I still keep a whole bunch of DVD's around on a DVD case and if GOG ever shuts down (noooo!) I won't lose any of them or have any need to re-purchase them.

I'd still look for alternatives that provide a similar service though. Now that i have GOG, I don't really bother since I don't like having a million accounts in different places, but if GOG ever went belly up, I see no point in keeping some sort of loyalty to a non-existent service.

Why would I re-buy them? I've got like three different back-ups.

No. I cannot see the point of it. I have a backup on HDD, if GOG goes down my first step would be to burn additional copies on DVDs.