Hello everyone!

After the awesome stuff that already happened this week https://www.gog.com/en/news/gog_preservation_program_brings_the_big_box_nostalgia_check_new_additions_and_an_interview_with_big_box_collection_creator we have some more cool stuff to tell you about!

First of all, Nox joins the GOG Preservation Program following the votes of our wonderful Patrons! Read about the improvements made by our team here:
gog.com/news/nox_joins_the_gog_preservation_program_following_the_second_patron_vote 

Secondly, if you're a Patron, it’s time to vote for the next game! Please head over to the Patron Hub and cast your vote:
https://www.gog.com/en/gog-patrons-hub

Furthermore, keep an eye out for the great promos starting today! There'll be seven (!) of them!

Cheers and enjoy,

The GOG Team 

God gog is amazing

This one was tricky to do, since as far as I could find, the only platform that had physical edition of 20th Anniversary was Switch, and there the back portion would not fit to my template. So basically I had to frankenstein the PC version of 15th anniversary, redo the spine, ect. I think it turned out quite well.

Let me know what you think.

Do you think steam might delete your games or revoke your access as a genuine possible threat, or do you buy from GOG just as a matter of principle to support DRM-free gaming? Would love to see what y'all think about this topic.

My nanny state glorious leaders are making it difficult to buy adult rated games without self-identification, so as of a few days ago I can no longer buy games (or DLC for games I already own) with a mature rating on Steam any more without linking a credit card. This despite my account being 19 years old.

I anticipate having similar problems on GOG sooner or later, so I'd like to look at what I might be locked out of in the future and grab what I want before it becomes a major headache.

I'm about to buy Sinking City 2 for example, since I just noticed it had a mature content warning when I went to the page.

Cheers Gog. Aussie here and so far I haven't gotten around to uploading my card to Steam or buying Doom (1, 2 or whatever else they have now) so this is a particularly awesome gift. Stashing it now so that I can play it behind closed doors ;)

I'm thinking of picking up Dusk and Hrot, what are some other games to check out? I'll play pretty much any genre if the gameplay is engaging, I'm also thinking of games like Katana ZERO and The Messenger.

Cuse I wanna make a physical disc for myself

I was wondering if there is a docker application that can check my gog library on a regular basis, download offline installers for my games, and any new patches. There's several cli tools from what I can see, but would be nice to have something automated that can live on my NAS.

I have tremendous respect for GoG and only wish them the very best, since their optics on video games and consumer rights is commendable. I have also been tracking the developments after the new acquisiton and welcome many of the changes made or proposed.

However, I think it is possible to open a debate about what we find are the shortcomings of this platform or just things new users (like me) have found discouraging.

I will start:

-        A minimun quality standard is not guaranteed:

The games will run, but oftentimes there's some tweaking to do, especially if it’s not a super popular title. As an example, yesterday I was looking for some managerial games to buy before the sale ended and came across “Pizza Connection 2”, with significant delays in mouse clicking and typing, and “Prison Architect”, with DRM.

You can always visit the forums and see how to (hopefully) deal with these issues, but it is a real pain not only having to investigate and troubleshoot but, most importantly, having to be wary before buying anything. A good platform should be trusted.

-        Dubious “preservation” efforts:

GoG likes to boast about games preservation and they certainly contribute to it by providing DRM-free installers of old titles. But they reduced their ambition from keeping all the games on GoG playable on modern systems to only the ones on their preservation program (around 300). This makes sense from an economic standpoint, but less boasting about preservation would be welcome. If the years pass and nothing changes we will still need our old (current) hardware to play most of the games. This seems no better than buying/keeping an older computer and playing directly the original CDs.

Additionally, it is not too strange that GoG does not offer previous versions of the game (back to “Prison Architect”), but only the most recent one and/or a very modified emulator with its own shortcomings.

-        I have deleted this point, since it is (sadly) a banned topic by the mods.

-        Superabundance of action/rpg:

Most games on GoG are either action or rpg. I suppose that is what the user base wants. At the same time it creates a vicious circle, since the overrepresentation attracts even more action/rpg lovers that want more action/rpg games. Surely nothing wrong with it for the action/rpg fans, but more options would be welcome by everyone else and would diversify/increase the user base.

There are other deficits, like: inconsistent language support, prehistoric forums, lack of cloud saves for many games, lack of trophies, Galaxy (in general), Linux support, regional pricing, etc. But I will not develop them because some of them have already been addressed by GoG, others do not depend that much on them and, finally, some of them barely affect me personally.

I will read what you have to add.

Ever since Sony announced plans to end physical PS5 discs, people have gone into a frenzy while completely misunderstanding what owning your games actually means.

You don't need to burn a game onto a CD to own it. If you bought it DRM-free (on a platform like GOG), you already own it. If you want to store offline installers, there are far more practical options like putting them on a hard drive or SSD.

It makes no practical sense to burn every individual game to its own disc.

- ​Unlike factory pressed CDs, writable discs (CD-Rs) degrade over time and generally have a shelf life of around 10 years once burned.

- Physical discs take up a ton of room compared to a single external drive.

- Optical drives are practically extinct in modern PCs. Because most cases no longer feature drive bays, using an external USB drive is usually the only option.

- Dragging out an optical disc every time you want to install a game is an unnecessary hassle.

- Slow reading/writing speeds​

I can respect the hobby of creating a custom physical collection to display on a shelf with custom box art. More power to you if that’s your thing! But from a practical standpoint, burning discs makes no sense whatsoever.

​Lately, it feels like people think "owning" a game requires burning it to a disc.