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Good Old Games Becomes GOG.com

[Mar 27, 2012, 10:14 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

GOG.com announces they are dropping the Good Old Games designation for their digital distribution service to better reflect their plans to offer more recent titles on their DRM-free marketplace. Here's a bit on what this means:

Don’t worry, no matter how new we’re getting, GOG.com will always stick to our three core values: No DRM, Fair Pricing, and Love for our GOG-ers. Newer means simply newer games, whether they’re big, recognized names, indie games, day-one releases, or pre-orders. Pre-order for Legend of Grimrock for only $11.99 today, or pick up Trine and The Whispered World right now; Spacechem, Machinarium, and Darwinia are coming soon. We have more than 20 great indie and newer games signed on GOG.com that will be showing up in the next few months.. These games lead the way on our the transition from Good Old Games to simply GOG.com. It doesn’t matter what G, O, and G stand for, Gee Oh Gee dot com stands for high-quality, DRM-free gaming, each week with bigger and newer games.

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Re: Good Old Games Becomes GOG.com

Mar 27, 2012, 14:53

LurkerLito

jacobvandy wrote on Mar 27, 2012, 13:31: ... but DRM-free isn't enough for me to buy from them instead of Steam. ... Hell, you can buy a Steam key straight from the developer for the same price! Wait till something on Steam's end screws up and they suspend your account and lock you out of all the games you ever bought for almost 2 weeks as you work it out with "support" and you'll change your tune. Believe me I loved steam and have bought several hundred games from them over the years and till it happens to you, you really won't appreciate DRM-Free, or how bad an idea it is to have all or a good portion of your games dependent on a single client/account. Steam has a nice convenience factor but convenience means jack when they can lock you out of all the games you bought from them over the years due to their own error.

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Comment [quote="LurkerLito"Mar 27, 2012, 14:53][quote="jacobvandy"Mar 27, 2012, 13:31]... but DRM-free isn't enough for me to buy from them instead of Steam. ... Hell, you can buy a Steam key straight from the developer for the same price! [/quote] Wait till something on Steam's end screws up and they suspend your account and lock you out of all the games you ever bought for almost 2 weeks as you work it out with "support" and you'll change your tune. Believe me I loved steam and have bought several hundred games from them over the years and till it happens to you, you really won't appreciate DRM-Free, or how bad an idea it is to have all or a good portion of your games dependent on a single client/account. Steam has a nice convenience factor but convenience means jack when they can lock you out of all the games you bought from them over the years due to their own error. [/quote]

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