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    Good documentary. I started supporting GOG back in late 2012, early 2013 I believe. Around that time I bought the Witcher 2 and had re-discovered Baldur's Gate 2. I've been buying games on the...

    Good documentary. I started supporting GOG back in late 2012, early 2013 I believe. Around that time I bought the Witcher 2 and had re-discovered Baldur's Gate 2. I've been buying games on the platform ever since.

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      Ditto for me too... The thing I absolutely love most about GOG is the DRM free installers for every game and the fact all their old games are fully patched to work with new systems (often using...

      Ditto for me too...

      The thing I absolutely love most about GOG is the DRM free installers for every game and the fact all their old games are fully patched to work with new systems (often using the major unofficial community patches) with well implemented dosbox configs already included.

      I go to LAN parties a fair amount and nothing is worse than having to spend 90% of your time trying to get games installed and working on everyone’s machines leaving only 10% to actually play them. Even with Steam/Origin/BNet/etc that can be a nightmare, especially with a slow internet connection and lots of people trying to use it at the same time, so often pirated copies are the easiest and most reliable method. Whereas with GOG everything is just a DRM free, bundled installer which you can easily throw on a thumb drive or share over the network and most work 100% out of the box on every windows based system, with no need to tinker or deal with DRM related issues. <3 GOG,

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  2. eladnarra
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    I bought my first game on GOG recently. I was telling my partner about an old Star Wars podracing game I loved as a kid and how sad I was when it started breaking on newer OSes. They googled it...

    I bought my first game on GOG recently. I was telling my partner about an old Star Wars podracing game I loved as a kid and how sad I was when it started breaking on newer OSes. They googled it and found it had just recently been released on GOG, updated to work on Windows 10. I was thrilled~

    I didn't realize that finding and rereleasing old games was such a big part of what they do, but it makes sense (especially now I know it stands for "Good Old Games," haha). I'm not as concerned about things like DRM (although I probably should be), but I definitely support them keeping old games alive, and should probably start buying more from them...

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