Yet you are adding code that never meant to be there ;)

Yeah, any patch that removes DRM (or cd-checks) is most assurably violating any user agreement the game has. (regardless of whether you paid for it)
Will you get in trouble for it? Nah.
But it is, what it is.

If you don't see any reason to buy games here, then don't. Nobody is forcing you to do anything. It's as simple as that.

Access to a bunch of old games that you don't already have, DRM-free. Throw on sale prices and you'll find some top-notch bargains on top of the already-fair pricing.

And then there's us, the forum community. ; )

That depends on the country, it ranges from protected consumer right (Poland, iirc) to basically piracy..
This. The OP smells of troll anyway.

You can spend hundreds of dollars for digital copies .
You can spam all over the community forum .
:p

No reason at all, I guess. If you've already got what you like and you're not looking to discover anything new, there's no point, really.

My reasons to buy gogs, are to acquire DRM free games which I don't already own.

My reasoning behind buying more games than I can realistically play, and buying games to giveaway... is to help GOG expand it's influence on the industry. In just four years time, GOG has already had impact. And it's growth has just begun. Capitalism can be a powerful force for change. There is money to be made in the selling of DRM free, quality games. And now that GOG has begun selling Indy games, hopefully that market will expand.

Yup, sure does.

You know, the process of troll hunting is often more destructive than a troll itself. And frequently there is no trolling, until the misguided troll hunters show up. Often it's just people being unique. Or the troll hunters not "getting" the poster.

Worst case I ever saw was a kid who was born deaf. He learned to communicate with his hands. Is a very different form than speech. As a result his communication skills developed differently. The difference between learning a new language, and going from sign language to a spoken language is very different. So he writes different. He's still learning. But people give him all sorts of grief which makes the learning more difficult and painful. He's just a kid trying to connect with other people. It pisses me off to see him trolled.

Do you mighty troll hunters feel special by outing a supposed troll?

What about this...

"CDs is really not an issue. No-CD patches exist for almost all games. Yes, I think it's simply not for me. Thank you all."

...reeks of trolling? It looks to me like someone asking a simple question and subsequently responding to answers politely. That someone does not share your sensibilities does not make them a troll.

Maybe some, like:

- Games with very many CDs (e.g. Phantasmagoria) that you might have to swap during gameplay, it is much nicer to play without any CDs at all.

- As someone mentioned, no-CD patches can sometimes mean you'll miss some features, e.g. audio-CD music or even FMV. And, hunting down for noCD patches for some old and obscure games can be a PITA in itself, especially if there are different noCD patches for different versions of the game (e.g. 1,0, 1.1, 1.2 etc.).

- CDs can indeed get broken, e.g. I decided to get Freespace 2 from GOG as soon as I noticed a tiny crack on my physical Freespace 2 CD2. Better safe than sorry. I guess this is a moot point in case you are able to easily make a 1:1 copy or CD image of your original game.

- It is much easier to keep a library of digital files (both on your local repository and/or on GOG servers) than CDs. For example, last two days I've been feverishly searching my cupboard for my Starlancer CDs. I know I own the game and recall seeing the CDs and manual a couple of months ago, but now I just can't find them anymore. Same for Turok 2 PC. Probably they turn out somewhere, but anyway, time is money.

You must also take into account that the GOG games are dirt cheap on sales. $2.99 (or even less) is practically nothing, even for the convenience of not having to try to find the game CDs from your cupboard in order to test whether they work on Win7. I don't think I can get even one beer here for that money.

I can't decide whether to smile or cringe at the level of naivety and hyperbole this post shows...

Something to do with pizza and a walrus

updated compatibility for games that the developers/company no longer supports. I've several games that I play and own that I would buy again so that I can play them (my dearest "pharaoh" for one)