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General discussion (archive)What Brought You To GOG?(131 posts)(131 posts)
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Posted April 17, 2011
A small IT Magazine published here in Austria featured a rather big article about gog.com.
So I singed up, got the free games and love this place ever since.
Posted April 17, 2011
...oh yes, and it was a friend who referred me here the day GOG.com opened. A year or so later, I finally got around to checking this place out. (I'm lazy.) So far as I know, he's never purchased from here.
Posted April 17, 2011
I heard about GoG in a Yahoo Games ariticle which is where I check my email. I was interested in the Fallout games so a few months later I remembered GoG and decided to come here to check out the catalogue and have been here ever since.
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senbon: I found GOG when I was searching around for some games I remembered my grandfather had many, many years ago.
Mainly Another World, Day of the Tentacle and King's Quest 6. Luckily I found Another World on GOG :D!
Anime avatars ftw.
Post edited April 17, 2011 by thelovebat
Posted April 17, 2011
A conversation with a friend about old fps games, I bought up how much I liked redneck rampage in the day(that mades me sound an extremely old 24 lol) so when I got home I searched for it and bam took me right here, so I bought that and both seven kingdoms games(one of my favs as a kid) and have been frequenting ever since
Posted April 17, 2011
I suspect it was a post in a discussion thread on a norwegian gaming forum that first lead me here, but I can't really remember.

Been here since closed beta though.
Posted April 17, 2011
I was searching for Ultima serie and Baldur's Gate. I found an abandonware website and saw the GOG.com ad while browsing it. I found that they were selling both Baldur's Gate games and Fallout. I bought them and there's like 30 games i want to buy now. I really wish that the new developper will be Lucasart or EA since i want a lot of their games, especially the Ultima serie that brought me here.
Posted April 17, 2011
It was so long ago I can't remember precisely, but I am pretty sure I saw a post about an "upcoming internet store that will sell old games without DRM" as the main news thing on the home page of some game magazine I used to read as a kid (Pelit). I forgot about it for a long while, then one day just suddenly remembered it and came to check it out.
I've been advertising the site to my family and friends ever since.
Posted April 17, 2011
The lack of DRM. I probably first heard about GOG in a Slashdot post or something, though.
Posted April 17, 2011
Finally got fed up with the DRM schemes of every single new game. I refuse to buy any games anymore that require me to go online at any point to install/play, unless they're online games. So here I am.
Post edited April 17, 2011 by bagelobo
Posted April 17, 2011
As a Pole I knew about gog from the beginning and I was visiting site from time to time seeing their catalog grow. I decided on my first purchase because I needed an english version of FreeSpace 2 to re-play both FS1/FS2 via SCP. Than Gabriel Knight 1.. Arcanum.. Jagged Alliance.. As for now gog.com is my only source of games. I’m a bit scared with increasing number of games on my shelf waiting for “proper time” – but hell – it’s a hobby as good as anything else.
Posted April 17, 2011
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saldite: Arcanum.

I was planning on just pirating it because I was curious about the game (at the time, I pirated everything), but then I saw in the wikipedia article that some place called Good Old Games had it for sale legitimately. And it's not as if the price was bad either. When I first arrived, though, the site seemed kind of...Shady (Well, to be fair, every new online store I come across I immediately treat with mistrust). I had never heard anything about it before. I couldn't find any information or popular opinion on it. It was claiming to be in beta, thus making me doubt how safe a purchase here would be. But I threw caution to the wind and gave it a shot. Haven't been disappointed yet.
A pirating gamer put off by a site that seemed "Shady", and treating new online stores with "mistrust". I fell out of my chair at that one.
Posted April 17, 2011
When it was in beta and someone on another gaming forum posted about it with ways to get on.

Been here since, though I'm still a "new user..."
Post edited April 17, 2011 by Stiler
Posted April 17, 2011
Saw a post about it on the Gamespot forums. Old games DRM free being sold legally is all I needed to hear.
Posted April 17, 2011
I was watching some vids on Youtube about Freespace 2 and alot of people were asking if the game still works on the latest version of windows. Somewhere along the lines i saw gog.com and man I'm glad i found this site =D
Posted April 17, 2011
I read about it somewhere, before it actually began. I got into the early beta right on, I wanted Colin McRae Rally 2005.

When the site effectively became active, the dollar had gone skyhigh so I had to wait until my first buy.

As of now, I've been exactly 951 days on board. :D
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