Well I have a couple of old games, and even some newer ones like the witcher and the witcher 2 that I bought through retail.

Obviously all of these games are on this site. I was wondering if anyone has any interest in being able to "add" these games to our GoG. Because as much as I like own retail copies of a game I also enjoy the ability to add them to a digital account for ease of access wherever or whenever I may need them.

Just a suggestion.

My apologies if this was the wrong section of the forum to add this topic to.

There's really no benefit to GoG or the publisher to do this. It's nice for us consumers, but it lacks practicality. Maybe there's something to be said for customer gratitude and the potential loyalty from that, but that's kind of ephemeral.

I generally only see such things done when the publisher or developer of the individual title also runs the DD service. Such as EA games can be registered with Origin and Valve games with Steam. Occasional exceptions are when a specific contract enables that, but that's usually something pretty special with royalty payments. Such as with Steamworks games.

That said, we might end up getting Witcher and Witcher 2 to work that way. Some day. It would follow the pattern.

I'm sure the GOG guys, who are very customer-centric, really wouldn't mind doing something like that, but the publishers don't get any money out of that, so I doubt they'd allow it.

If this old retail copies have DRM than you probably cannot store them here without buying again here. They just can't give you a copy of the same game for free, since it comes with a different license (most probably).

But if these retail copies do not have DRM than you can store them in any web storage, e.g. in a google mailbox, for digital access. However, Gog does not offer web storage afaik, but they might in the future, maybe...

Well the way I see it, publishers already got their money when I paid for my retail copy. Maybe it would be a bit of a far fetched idea.

But it would be nice to have a service like this. Since not even steam lets me do this. The only time i've ever seen this was blizzard with their battle.net service but it's kind of different since they only host games they've developed.

You can add the games to GoG with your credit card details. There's a small one time transaction fee for almost every game, though.

Lol that made me chuckle :P

Indeed. :)

You can contact the publishers (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Interplay, ...) and ask them, if you can get also new Gog version of your old games for free since they already got your money, when you bought the retail copy... probably very far fetched. ;) :)

Yes, publishers did get your money. But you are not asking here for a favor from publishers, but from GOG. And GOG did not get your money for those games. Like it was said previously, if the publishers themselves have a DD site then most likely you could register there, like EA - Origin, Valve - Steam, Activision(Blizzard) - Battle.net

You are asking here for something from a third party company that was in no way involved in your dealings with the publishers. It's like buying a PC from a computer store then going to a different one with your warranty.

Damnit I want to be able to register my games on GOG by mailing them pictures of my 5 1/4in floppy disks.

Mail to me original diskettes of might and magic 1-6 and i will add the game for you to your account.

:P

I bet most publishers would also consider this an extra - you already paid for the CD version but the DD version comes with a few advantages that I can imagine publishers would want to charge you for, too. A package of retail plus DD version would still be just one game to play but arguably of more worth than just a retail version by itself.

GOG worked hard to make these games working on modern operating systems. They also removed the DRM. Why would you want to get these superior versions for free? GOG deserves this money. Also, if they added an option to register the cd keys, their sales would dive hard.