I had more than a few sites (along with release groups) which had already proved their worth to me as minimally trustworthy back when I was pirating, along with other sources I trusted to some small degree. It's not as if I would dive in head-first haphazardly or anything, downloading everything in my wake. Not to mention, unlike GOG, said sites weren't getting any of my private information. Likewise, I had no information on GOG. None. Never heard of it before. Couldn't find much info on it other than a comment saying, "ohohoho u pay moneyz for torrented gamez." You can't blame me for being cautious, especially considering my money is involved.

Either way, it's all in the past. I can safely say that I love this site.

A couple of months before the site launched, I heard about it on the PCGamer podcast. After anxiously waiting through August of '08 I got in on the closed beta. The Fallout collection was mine immediately and I haven't looked back since. I have, however, convinced 3 other people to start accounts with this site.

I saw someone on a sci-fi and fantasy forum I tend to frequent talk about GOG.com, a site they heard about on the PC Gamer Podcast. I signed up (I believe this was before open beta started), and haven't looked back since.

BJ

I'd visited the site a few times, looking but got put off by the fact the currency was in Dollars.
I looked at the free games and thought 'cool free Point and Click adventures' I left the site on the condition I'd be back when they had it in Great British Pounds.

However long before this, I had bought a game on xbox 360, a collector's edition, of Alone in the Dark (2008) I wanted it, because I was starting to be more adventurous in the media I was consuming, I'd always steered clear of 'horror' but I felt then the time was right, I saw a friend play the game for 5 minutes and thought it looked good. After Playing it, I realised it is one of the worst games I had played at that time, I became obsessed at figuring out why it was so bad. I wrote several reviews for it and made a video review for it for a college project. I had mostly forgotten about it.

Then I was searching Rock Paper Shotgun, looking at the weekend deals. And funnily enough there, for about £4 they said I could get the Original 3 AitD games. I knew I had to play them, especially the first I wanna know exactly how far a series can fall.

Looking at the rest of of the catalogue, I know alot more business will come from me, the original 4 Heroes of Might And Magic Games, Rayman, the Might and Magic Series, Baldur's Gate, The nations, Constructor,Fallout, Empire Earth, all games i'd played as a kid, or missed out on, and all DRM free? you'll be hard pressed to be rid of me now i'm here.

I found GOG a few weeks after my birthday in 2009, when I decided to use some cash I received to buy my first netbook. A search for a good digital store to buy Fallout 1 and 2 later and here I was.

Kotaku mentioned it was about to launch closed beta, and to apply for invites. I did, and here I am.

The Unreal series brought me to GOG. At the time I was just thinking about how I never really played them (only played part of the first Unreal game and none of the rest). So, did some Googling to see where I could get them and up popped GOG, and the whole DRM free games really grabbed me and since then I've got quite a few games from them. :)

PC Powerplay magazine promo with a free game from a choice of 3.

The site closure publicity stunt. Read about it on GameFAscists. I was EXTREMELY skeptical at first and I absolutely despised Digital Distribution at the time, still don't care for it, but I eventually I decided to take a leap of faith. Bought The Incredible Machine Mega Pack and, well, was extremely pleased to find that it was a truly DRM installer that I could back up and never have to worry about my ISP or their servers/site ever again. Been purchasing stuff on and off since then. So far my library consists of 18 titles, not including the freebies, with plenty more I intend to purchase down the road, especially if CDProjekt signs Eidos (I refuse to refer to them as Square Enix...), EA, Zenimax/Bethesda, and Take-Two.