Hello there! I just wanted to thank you. And you know why?

There is finally an alternative to these "you have to install our software in order to download games AND you have to stay Online! Yupp you can go offline if you want - but not for long please! And we will sniff around your HDD and see whats up there - we are no SPYs! we just like statistics"

No matter if Steam or Origin or whatever - i don`t like that stuff. Look at that and tell me they only cumulate data which is related to steam(i wonder why Daemon Tools does not shows up anymore....):
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

And that is why i like Good old Games! A web based approach without the need to install some client you have to use - just download and PLAY!

I preordered Legend of Grimrock because you guys(and of course the developers - Almost Human) deserve to be supported!
Had i knew that i can also buy the Witcher here....i would not have bought it via Steam(and i did not have to fight with the Witcher 2 Steam specific issues).

But....i would enjoy some of those Games here if there are more language Options.
Dungeon Keeper, Darkstar one, Planescape Torment, the Wing Commanders - these are all Games which where originally available with german language Options - these are removed in the GoG Version and that is sad. Those Games were an instant buy otherwise. I already saw the language patch Thread - not all Games have patches available. Why remove what was already included? Size Reasons? Licenses? Don`t get me wrong - i don`t have a problem with english but with the atmosphere. I played those games in my native language back then - i don`t like it beeing only english/french now.

Please do something about that - that is my only complaint here. Those Games(and System Shock when you will finally offer that) had my prefered language onboard - please do not remove that. Of course no one is stopping me to configure Dosbox for myself - which i do. But you offer a complete easy to install package. when i loose my "wayback" hdd i have to confiure everything by myself again(which will not happen due to backups ;b) which is a pain. Here i can enjoy one download and install and play. And that is what i like about GoG so much.

Thank you guys again and keep it up!

I don't think they removed the language options when it was here, but it seems they sells mostly the American releases rather that the European releases. European versions are usually multilingual, American ones, not so much - with the exception of some French titles who kept the French language option.

Welcome to the forums.
This might be of interest to you:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/multilingual_gogs/page1

Which surprises me since Gog/parent company is basically european ?. I guess its easier to source the american releases especially the older classics? (not sure about the size that multi languages would make a download but it could be a factor in not offering no other language aside from english?.)

I don't think GOG has mostly US version. (Fallout has the UK versions, eg and quite a few games here simply never saw a US release). I think it is an issue of licensing. A single language license is usually cheaper than a mulit language one. Due to their size and business practise GOG is probably always seeking the cheapest deal, which often means sacrificing additional languages.

Which is a good point, translations are typically done by specialists working either as independents or for outside firms. Translation itself is a tricky business, especially when you're needing to fit the dialog into a bubble or match the length of an animation.

Considering how often music isn't available due to the license, it wouldn't surprise me at all if translations were under similar restrictions. Or if they were limited to ones distributed in certain locations.

Which sucks as it can be quite hard sometimes to find foreign language media. Right now I have a hard time finding English and German things, back home I tend to have trouble finding German language things.

UK version? I stand corrected.

That said, a lot of games had only one language option at the time - in England, you got the English version, in France you got the French version (my Fallout 2 disks only includes the French version). For these games, you would have to license and package each language separately.

Games with a multilingual version (most recent European releases) are of course easier to distributes with more that one language.

Thanks for the replies guys.

When this is a licensing issue then i hope GoG grows bigger - more sales more total revenue and more options i guess.

Until then i will setup dosbox on my own or use the Multilingual GOGs thread.

I don't know if anyone mentioned, but DotEmu might have more multilangual (DRM-free) releases. I don't necessarily like to advertise GOG's competitor here, but since some people ask for multilingual releases every now and then, that might be the place to check (on top of GOG releases which are already multilingual).

English games are a good way to learn English, which is the real life Esperanto. I think everyone should learn it.

I recently re-installed "The Reap" (which is an old Finnish shoot'em-up). I think it had an option to install it in Finnish, but I still opted for the English version. It would have just felt wrong otherwise, albeit it would have been funny if the little guys you shoot would shout "PERKELE!" instead of "Aaaargh!"..

But to each his own of course. There's one reason though why I might be against multilingual releases: at least on DotEmu (where there are more of them) it seems to sometimes increase the size of the installers considerably. So unless the other language packs can be offered separately, I hope GOG does not do it by default.

One of the problems with localized versions of games is that the localization work is often outsourced to companies local to the country the game is localized for (what an afwul sentence). As such, the company that does the localization may hold the rights to it, and in that case GOG can't simply sell the localized version of a game even though they have the rights to the English version from the publisher. They'd need permission from the company holding the rights to the localization.