Hey, you get ten free games for signing up on GOG - not a spam post.

Most of them, I wasn't keenly interested in, but Ultima 4 ran for many many hours on my c64.

Iolo! Oh, that's not what the kids are saying these days?

Beneath a steel sky is pretty good.

I still have this on 5 1/4 floppy disks... spent countless hours playing it back in 1992. I downloaded it from GOG recently but it does not look good on a 24" widescreen display. And I have no idea how the controls work.

I'm still boycotting GOG - their "we're going out of business" BS campaign last year (or whenever) really bugged me, and I vowed never to give them a penny again.

AndrewA wrote:

I'm still boycotting GOG - their "we're going out of business" BS campaign last year (or whenever) really bugged me, and I vowed never to give them a penny again.

Or you could give them your money, and download the game straight away and have no reliance upon them. I've bought plenty of stuff from companies who are no longer with us, and plenty from companies who've done misguided publicity stunts.

If I am already signed up, can I still get the games somehow?

I'm still boycotting GOG - their "we're going out of business" BS campaign last year (or whenever) really bugged me, and I vowed never to give them a penny again.

That was a sh*tty thing to do, no question. But, the whole point of GOG is that even if they DO go out of business, it doesn't matter, because their offerings are totally standalone, and completely DRM-free. As long as they're in business, you can use them like Steam, but if they ever evaporate, you can keep using any local installers you have, forever, without needing them to exist at all.

I'm not sure what the original goal was, but if they faked going out of business to demonstrate how them going out of business doesn't matter, well, let's just call that "lame", and leave it at that. But, at the same time, their entire business model is to insulate you from that kind of garbage, so.... I dunno.

I think that specific vow is one you can probably let go; marketing stunts or no, they're demonstrably friendlier to end-users than any other online game store. No DRM is kind of a big deal for me, and it's much of why I've spent as I have there. Even post-stunt.

I'd argue that they screwed up once, and stopped, but DRM is an ongoing screwup that hurts a little bit, all the time.

Malor wrote:
I'm still boycotting GOG - their "we're going out of business" BS campaign last year (or whenever) really bugged me, and I vowed never to give them a penny again.

That was a sh*tty thing to do, no question. But, the whole point of GOG is that even if they DO go out of business, it doesn't matter, because their offerings are totally standalone, and completely DRM-free. As long as they're in business, you can use them like Steam, but if they ever evaporate, you can keep using any local installers you have, forever, without needing them to exist at all.

I'm not sure what the original goal was, but if they faked going out of business to demonstrate how them going out of business doesn't matter, well, let's just call that "lame", and leave it at that. But, at the same time, their entire business model is to insulate you from that kind of garbage, so.... I dunno.

I think the problem is that people did/still do treat GOG like steam, assuming it'll always be there and they can get their games on demand, which is all nice and well if everything is up and running or the 'Gabe Newell dies and steam is sold to EA and MONSTERS!" apocalypse happens.

mudbunny wrote:

If I am already signed up, can I still get the games somehow?

Looks like it. I've been signed up since the beginning there and the ones I don't have on that list are showing as "Free" to me.

tanstaafl wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

If I am already signed up, can I still get the games somehow?

Looks like it. I've been signed up since the beginning there and the ones I don't have on that list are showing as "Free" to me.

Yeah, you don't get them just for signing up. They're just free. You just need to have an account to add them to.

I think the problem is that people did/still do treat GOG like steam, assuming it'll always be there and they can get their games on demand,

I think you're absolutely right, and that GOG did not think of themselves like that at all; they thought of it more as a buy-and-done transaction, where you're not an ongoing customer forever for your ten dollars.

mudbunny wrote:

If I am already signed up, can I still get the games somehow?

You could create an account with a different email.
They don't keep client info in a profile. They promote this as a security feature.

*edit - read further, seems they show as free under your current user name*

This should be interesting. I've never played an Ultima game before. Loaded up the mars one and it looks fascinating. Will need to read the manual so I know if and how I can put objects into the rucksack.

AndrewA wrote:

I'm still boycotting GOG - their "we're going out of business" BS campaign last year (or whenever) really bugged me, and I vowed never to give them a penny again.

That was a crappy thing to do, and they spend about a year on my crap list. However they havent really done anything that stupid since and they did apologize.

They also have a 5 games for 10$ deal going btw