I understand GOG, but unfortunately I don't think I will be buying much of the new games in here.

Putting the oldie exclusives aside, offering less games, with a lot of value on each, and going against the rest of the internet and it's super-sales, GOG is becoming some kind of luxury service.

And GOG understands this. As they said, they don't want to try and be better than the other digital stores, they want to be different. And this is great, really, it's always good to have more options.

Some of us, however, don't need all that. I guess what I want, in the end, is a DRM-Free, no-region-restrictions Steam, with just the games at fantastic prices (it was Steam and it's sales that took me and many other Brazilians out of piracy in the first place), and Indie bundles with keys for it. That service, unfortunately, doesn't currently exist.

I'm not saying GOG has made a bad decision, just that it's not exactly what I would personally prefer, though many will like it better this way. Of course, I'm always along for the oldies =)

Sorry for the complete non-sequitor, but did you change your name/were you Dragobr (sic)?

Don't care much for these changes, I'll miss 'Good Old Games' and the nostalgic value of the place, but as long as this will be going on: I guess I'll be here every weak :)

Oh, yeah, you're right. I just remembered the silly copy protection code check on The Whispered World. Props for the oldschool idea, but in practice it wasn't any less annoying than those oldschool code checks, all the codewheels and dices and word puzzles in the manual just dress up these annoying control mechanisms that steal your time when you could be playing already. Besides, some of the old games only asked you for the code once during the game, not every time you run it like TWW.

Then again, we don't know if they will just add a dice code table as extra. ;)
After all some Sierra games still have those code checks in the GOG versions.

Don't skip out on the oldies. Indies and new titles are cool but don't fucking skip the oldies. I can probably name at least 100 older titles that you could probably get.

...I'm watching you...

Yep, that's me! The nick change also had some community participation:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/anybody_speaks_old_norse

Yay (for future System Shocks)!

Does that mean we won't find games that fall into those categories in GOG's new intended catalogue ? ;) The broken and uninspiring ones I mean.

Actually I was talking about the Securom CD-Check that the retail version had, I wasn't aware of the code check you mention.

I don't do it out of guilt, I do it because I know not everyone is going to luck out like I have and I am at liberty to support the things I like. I.E. I pay extra so that those that can't don't have to.
Well, we have MoO3 here after all;)

Another low blow at MoO3, take that!

The retail version I played came with three dice that were used in a code check every time you started the game. Not sure if it also had SecuRom, but if so what's the use of the code check??? :/

Has anyone ever told you you're a classy individual?.... They have now ^_^. I think Moo3 was probably one of those. "You can marry my gorgeous and talented daughter but only if you take her hideous & heavily overweight rhino of a sister to the end of school dance because she has nobody to go with."

I bought it at release for full price as well...:(

Yeah, and ya had to give her a sloppy good night kiss as well...

I've had my eye on the Whispered World for a while. I'll probably get that one. I already have the others DRM-free. But they're all damn good and anyone who is interested in their respective genres should really consider getting them.

At the risk of starting a never ending debate, what's the difference?

In order to reduce the risk of a never ending debate I'll say this:

DRM = constricting the rights of paying customers. Anything from disc check through to online activations. It's not about copy protection.

Copy protection = myth. Pipe dream, like communism and world peace. Only not. There never has been any copy protection and nothing proclaiming itself to be copy protection actually served that purpose. It's all DRM. Piracy is just being used as an excuse to deliver a beat down to customers not using the product the way that the publisher wants - as in, this time next decade, for instance.