Call me a GOG fanboi, but here are some reasons why I love GOG.com, the online community:

1) Gaming News Monday
2) New Release Tuesday
3) Surprise Wednesday
4) New Release Thursday
5) Weekend Promo Friday

6) Classic games that work on your modern system.
7) An intelligent, creative, and helpful community.
8) Tons of giveaways, from GOG and community members alike.
9) Interesting and entertaining news, reviews, and contests.
10) People who are personally invested in improving your gaming experience.
11) Technical help and support for pretty much anything you care to ask about.
12) That esoteric "cool factor" connected to Gdfsgsdfhgsdfghs.
13) The fact that other GOG members are going to respond with even more reasons to love GOG.


-Khalaq

PS. (Giraffes love GOG.com, too!)

- have only needed technical help with one purchase out of 20 or so...
- and then the supremely helpful community answered it so I didn't have to bother GOG staff for a solution.
- periodic new releases covering a wide range of game types.
- good price reductions during the sale events.
- surprise sales.
- easy-to-navigate website, not cluttered up with too much garbage that makes it tough to find the basics like search, catalog, etc.
- and, of course, the "where do I vote for games?" threads at least twice per week.

-Even without promo's GOG.com has loads of games that give you outstanding value for money due to low pricepoints and extra goodies and the best part? It's the same price worldwide!

Agree with most, but this I disagree with a bit - the other day I thought I'd look for a GOGMix of games with soundtracks.

At first I thought 'GOGMixes are community things, I'll check under community'. Didn't see them there. Found them under Games Catalogue. Okay, fair enough, that's a minor thing.

Then I thought 'I'll search for soundtracks'. But then realised there was no GOGMix search. Tried the searchbox up in the top right, that only searches the games in the catalogue.

Then I thought 'I'll have a scan through them and see if I can find one'. But then realised there was no way to decently order them (by vote or by date added only), or to even go through them aside from constantly clicking 'Show more'.

So, long story short, I didn't find what I wanted. I believe the exact same complaints can be levelled at the wishlist too.

That's my only complaint though.

Ah... well, for the purpose of finding and buying games, it's laid out quite nicely for my needs. Haven't played around with GOGmixes yet and I don't go to the wishlist unless someone mentions a game in a thread and I want to vote for it.

The site ain't perfect but I really like the clean style.

Oh yeah, the actual game side of things I can't fault. Being able to filter out already purchased games and change genres and prices etc without having to refresh the screen is awesome, and the overall site design is fantastic. Just that some of the side features like GOGMix and the wishlist could really use an overhaul.

My favourite reason so far is all the loively stuff the community has pointed me at for games I already own original CDs/DVDs :-) All the mods & patches I missed up to now...

Of course, I've got all the bits for all the games on GoG I own now, so it's a matter of whether GoG releases stuff I don't own but want, or stuff I already own but want the updates for...

(and Zork is neither...)

- #gog; irc.quakenet.org

-No DRM, unlimited downloads.
-good looking website that isn't overloaded with advertisements
-frequent promos (got Arx Fatalis last weekend, woot!)
-helpful, friendly community
-the amazing game catalogue, because honestly, with the games, the rest wouldn't matter!

I love gog for helping me survive boring office-hours.

The occasional PR gaffe aside *ahem*, GOG seems to sincerely care about cultivating a good relationship with its clientele. The JA give away at the end of the beta testing and the willingness to listen to their customers and adapt their practices (haven't seen any 18 game weekend sales for a while now) are just two examples of a company doing right by their community.