My friend bought BG1 and file shared the installer with me so we could play multiplayer. I want the game on my GOG account. Is there anything to do, or is my only choice to buy it myself?
Please help!

Ah, well, looks like I don't get to be lazy, but thanks anyway.

And that, gentlemen, is how No DRM games can be beneficial to the gaming industry!

Man gets game from a friend free.
Man tries game out and likes it.
Man buys game.

It couldn't be simpler to understand, could it? :)

This.

I've been on the Bethesda forums as per tifshell's suggestion, trying to politely persuade them to bring the classic Fallouts back to GOG, now that their *priority* that was Steam has been taken care of, and the amount of Bethesda customers that endorse DRM and think GOG is an open door to piracy is astounding. DRM treats customers like garbage, and if someone treats me like that, I'm more liable to pirate their games, since, in my opinion, if I'm not worthy of their trust and respect, they're not worthy of mine, as well. GOG treats their customers with respect, there are times in which I feel like we're all a big community of actual friends (there are always the odd exceptions, obviously, but that's still my feeling, overall), and, to be honest, I pirated a lot of games before joining GOG, and now I simply don't. If it's available here, I buy or wishlist it, if it's not, I simply vote with my wallet and refuse to get it, to try and send the developers and publishers a message.

I brought a lot of people to GOG just by letting them have an installer of one of my games, they loved the game, came in here to look for more games -- and to get the extras GOG so carefully packs with their games, as I only gave them the game installer with no extras -- and ended up becoming regular customers. So, yeah, DRM-free is the way to go, in my book.

Doing the right thing is always the nicest thing to do. :)

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What everyone up there said.


$4.99 is a great price for a game like BG. Also consider that in the US, a pack of 20 cigarettes costs more than that and people won't bat an eye paying for them. Same goes for the amount of money people sink into alcohol, gambling, F2P games, junk food, petrol (or gasoline), etc etc.

So yeah, don't say yer lazy cos that just doesn't jive, there's simply no excuse not to buy the game yourself. By paying $4.99 for BG, you get far more value there than the other stuff I mentioned above.

So buy it, it's waitin for ya :P