Bah! I was gonna change hats and don the fake stache before going through line again :(

Thanks, never really followed any Indie Bundles. The only other one on my list is the Dredmor series. I'll keep an eye out!

I did not know that the community did change their decision. Interesting.

And I did not say " IN YO FACE BETHESDA CRITICS!"

I said (roughly) "Some of the people with the anti-bethesda rhetoric will eat their words now"

Because in this thread the tone by many was "fuck bethesda" "greedy fuckers taking away games and forcing us to buy new versions". And I still stand buy criticizing those.

Bethesda never said (to my knowledge) "we are no longer selling the original Doom 3 because it is hurting the industry/only suckers want to play it".

Okay, never say I'm not cooperative. ;)

And I simply disagree, that GOG.com can't compete with Steam or Humble Bundle/Store.
I know you like DRM, so you don't mind Steam, but many people do, and for those a DRM-free copy has a much higher quality than Steam. They also offers more goodies, and sell what other stores offer as a "Collector's Edition" to a lower price, so you also get more for your money (= better quality).

I also don't know what you think is better about the Humble Store - there isn't even a storefront.

Humble Bundles are of course unbeatable when it comes to pricing, but they are a limited time only. I for example missed HIB5, which is probably the best Bundle that was ever released.

And I really don't know what you can say about their service. Support is always extremely fast and helpfull, they do their best to help you out even when they're not at fault, they invest a lot of time to make sure old games run on modern systems (which I heard Steam does not), and they even compensate their users when they got screwed over by other companies (Botanicula...).

So yeah, I agree with you, criticism should always be allowed, and if it's worded correctly, it can be very helpful.
But ever since I joined I've only seen you criticize GOG.com, never saw you saying anything good about them (e.g. with the classic release today your only comment was basically "Why wasn't it Imperialism 2?"), while you immediatly jump to Steam's defense and never let anyone say anything bad about Steam.

And this sort of behaviour just makes me wonder why you are on here in the first place.
And don't say because of the community, you always say the GOG-forums are almost as bad as the ones on Steam. ;)

Ah, so that answers my question as well. Alll purchases have to go to the same person. They must either all be gifted or all kept unless duplicates are present. So I can't say buy one for myself 2 for somebody else and 2 more for a third person, or gift specific games out of a bundle while keeping others. had never tried gifting before and didn't know how it works. good thing I read the thread before asking


Guess its off to the community wishlist section to see if that is already a page

The first 5 games from GOG or so I bought for normal price because I was new but then I learned from the frequent sales that everything is approximately 50% cheaper than it appears to be. So I bought my last 20 games from GOG only in sales.

And while I think the current sale is really good I now pay more attention to get the games I really want, because I have only limited time and so many games still to play. The next sale will come for sure. But cheap games aren't top priority when time is limited. Good and cheap games is the goal. In my special case I don't need to try out otherwise uninteresting games because... I don't have the time for them.

Simple, I don't need to defend GOG, as there are plenty here who do. Steam, on the other hand, has no friends here. Therefore I'm pointing out whenever people unjustifiably criticize Steam. Same with EA or any other frequent target.

The imperialism jab was adorned with a winky smiley indicating that I was joking. (I can think of way to criticise that, but I withheld on those.) I usually recommend each release of an old game once (if it is good), and then that's it. Anything more would be pointless.

Well, there is this

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Humble_Store

For me, the humble store is superior to GOG in every aspect. Games are DRM free, more version, more download options, Steam keys and, most importantly, the biggest cut for the devs. Makes GOG pretty much redundant.

Their account support is top notch. Something I regularly mention whenever a forum post about billing comes up. Their technical support is a bit more hit and miss. They like to delegate this to the community. Which is not a problem. That is what we are there for and with the old games problems happen. But there was a time when the release version of a bunch of games had a bad gamebreaking bug which indicated that they weren't properly tested. (Eg. Soulbringer). But that has been fixed. No arguments from me there.

Two reasons. The first is actually the community, as there are still some people I like and which opinion I highly respect. If they say buy a game, I do it. I don't read reviews, so I like that. They are becoming less and less as forum quality deteriorates, but as long as they are here, I will be around (I guess)

The second reason is that I really liked the idea that Good Old Games stood for. Bringing old games back to a new generation. Revitalizing those. Heck, I was the one whose suggestion actually brought the GOGwiki on track because of that (although it was in the end mostly Ubivis who actually made it happen).

I honestly don't know how long I will stay here. I need to finish my phd and get a proper job again. Which means that I won't have that much dilly dally time anymore.

Damn it, why do there have to be 6 games I don't own?

Awesome, i was planning on getting Torchlight witch is 14.99$ but now i got it for 9.99$ plus 4 other games DRM free. the best part is that i live in Europe so i payed 7 euros.

Nice, I had exactly 5 games missing. Cool promo, hope to see more of its kind later.

Nice promo, gog, thanks, downloading the whole thing now. There will be hell to pay if the extras aren't 'properly' packaged, mark my words :p

You're implying certain factors on gog ? What does that even means ? Oh, you mean that you are making it up as usual ? That, as usual, you have no way to substantiate your bull ? That the only thing you have, yet again, to try to dazzle the audience is the "my profession" and "my training" smoke screens ?

The smoke screens, there they are. So you do make shit up, and you insult people to boot, but that's ok, because in the twisted depths of your random bouts of delusions of grandure and inflated sense of self importance, where you absolutely can't stop the self fellatio exercices about you, you, your profession, your training, you, you and you, you see yourself as Simon, trainee extraordinaire, paladin of truth and shinning beacon of justice. I'm not even sure how to adress the rationale but the expression "reality check" does come to mind.

No, your criticsim is ALWAYS based around your very subjective and "out in the open" zealotry towards CDPR, and by proxy, towards GOG, GOG's community, and lately it seems, GOG's staff. Only the unaware, the unobservant or the dim-witted - HELLO FRED, HOW ARE YOU THIS FINE DAY? - will remain ignorant to the FACT that all of your criticism stems from a personnal pet peeve you have with CDPR, and no, this isn't an opening for you to run wild on yet another one of your diatribes on the subject because, Simon, no one fucking cares about your pet project and outlining it for the 100th time won't change that.

To put it bluntly, your demeanour around here is consistently that of an attention whore, an as unsophisticated attention whore as the other attention whores around that from the height of your hipocrisy you see fit to lambast on a regular basis, which understandbly makes it very difficult for anyone to take you seriouly.

Anyway, have a nice day Simon, i'm going to tend to my new shinies now.

People on here don't seem to realize that it's common for Steam users to only buy during sales as well. GOG (and all other digital storefronts) need sales to compete with Steam.

Ouch that nearly hurt a bit.

So you're going the Fox News route of argument? "The other ones are biased too, so to balance that out, I have to be extremely biased to the other side." Not very convincing, in my opinion.

Other than that, even though I don't agree with most of the points you made, I'll at least acknowledge them as valid criticism, and not just the vague, spiteful jabs you usually tend to make - but I don't feel like this thread is the place to argue about them, so I'll leave it at that.

There wasn't really much choice for me. Several of the games I already had bought on GOG or on the humble bundle.

The only game I really cared for was 'to the moon'

Here are the games I got
TO THE MOON, UNMECHANICAL, BLACKWELL BUNDLE

I also got these just to fill the blank spots, but I don't really like either of them
ALAN WAKE'S AMERICAN NIGHTMARE, SYMPHONY

In particular, symphony doesn't even feel like a game .. just a fancy music app.
I'm not really a music person.

You guys are welcome to comment on my choices :)