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Posted December 29, 2017
Looking back at 2017 on GOG.com

We made it! You made it! 2017 is almost over – and whatever your take on the world at large, only one thing can truly be said for certain: it's been a great year for all of us here at GOG.com – thank you for being a part of it!

Let's take a brief look back at the year 2017...





Over 2000 DRM-free games
Our catalog passed two thousand titles in 2017 – but if you know us, you know it's not just about the numbers. These are over two thousand unique experiences that we truly believe are worth playing!

Did somebody say good old games? Well, we brought back quite a few of them this year – the really tough ones and the ones we really missed – restored by our talented teams and friends across the net. There is the Jazz Jackrabbit series – CliffyB's gaming debut; SWAT 4 – happily no longer among PC Gamer's "15 great games you can't buy digitally"; The Suffering series – with scary monsters by Stan Winston Studios; the delicious Pizza Tycoon series; many long-lost classics Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, Rise of the Dragon, Heart of China; [url=https://www.gog.com/game/titanic_adventure_out_of_time]Titanic: Adventure out of Time… and more!




But the good and old is only half the story. 2017 was an amazing year for gaming, with award winning and groundbreaking productions releasing DRM-free on GOG.com. If the indie revolution is behind us, then this is the renaissance!

2017 gave us Divinity: Original Sin 2 – PC Gamer's Game of the Year and this year's most popular game on GOG.com! Followed by Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice – Best Audio Design, Impact, and Best Performance at The Game Awards; the niche but loveable Piranha Bytes RPG; [url=https://www.gog.com/game/cuphead]Cuphead – winning Best Art Direction and Best Independent Game at The Game Awards; and so many others!

All in all, in 2017 alone we released nearly one quarter of our entire catalog – and it's an honor to work this closely with so many talented game developers and great publishers.





GOG Galaxy out of beta
In 2017 the GOG Galaxy client left behind its BETA tag – with a few great new features to boot! We added Universal Cloud Saves, technology which allows us to introduce Cloud Save support to classics and new games on GOG.com (now nearly 300 and counting). Plus an in-game overlay, a built-in FPS counter and screenshot tool, as well as an array of expanded settings allowing you to customize the client to your needs. Anyway, that's how we earned our sense of pride and accomplishment.





We are legion
We saved the best for last – and that's you lot. As we grow in size, the GOG word spreads farther and farther out! Tens of thousands of you have joined us this year across social media and our very own twitch.tv/GOGcom channel. That's over <span class="bold">240,000 following our Twitter shenanigans</span>, more than <span class="bold">340,000 of you with us on Facebook</span>.

<span class="bold">As for twitch.tv/GOGcom</span>, we can't thank our dedicated Stream Team enough for sharing our love for games seven days a week. In 2017 we reached 50k followers – oh, it just went up to 51k – and there have been over 214600 individuals watching us so far. If you combine all our 2017 streams, we streamed for 169 days and 15 hours (that's about 45% of the year!) and if you combine all the time people spent watching our channel in 2017, you get 38 years and 272 days!





Thank you so much for being with us in 2017 – we hope your 2018 is amazing, and we can't wait to show you what's in store for this year!
Post edited December 29, 2017 by Konrad
Posted December 29, 2017
Here is hoping for the rest of Sierra's classic library in 2018 like more of Coktel Vision's games and of course who could forget the Ecoquest games. Also would love to see the rest of Monkey Island especially Curse of Monkey Island. Legend Entertainment I really would like to play Blackstone Chronicles again so all of Legend's games would be nice. Would love to see the two Horrorsoft games that are missing appear here as well. Legacy Realm of Terror would be a great game to premiere around Halloween. Speaking of horror games how about the Darkseed games. I'm a huge fan of Tim Curry so would love to play Frankenstein which was a fmv game with Tim Curry as Doctor Frankenstein. Speaking of FMV games would love to play Ripper again. Anyway enough rambing keep up the great work GOG in 2018
Posted December 29, 2017
I love you Guys&Girls,
but please, PLEASE, for effin sake:

Remove the Geoblock :(

Greetings&HappyNewYear
Posted December 29, 2017
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Samet42: I love you Guys&Girls,
but please, PLEASE, for effin sake:

Remove the Geoblock :(

Greetings&HappyNewYear
Its a bit of problematic area but the EU did pass a law that forbids geoblocking inside the European Union. All online stores will have to implement that in a bit less then one year. Though I dont know how that will work since a lot of games are restricted in Germany.
Post edited December 29, 2017 by Matruchus
Posted December 29, 2017
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Samet42: I love you Guys&Girls,
but please, PLEASE, for effin sake:

Remove the Geoblock :(

Greetings&HappyNewYear
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Matruchus: Its a bit of problematic area but the EU did pass a law that forbids geoblocking inside the European Union. All online stores will have to implement that in a bit less then one year. Though I dont know how that will work since a lot of games are restricted in Germany.
Restricted, but not forbidden (!) or completely unregulated.
You could order restricted games from Austria. The regulation is that you are not allowed to make advertising for restricted games (index) or sell them "openly". And "i" would buy a GOG game, in theory, not in germany, but outside of it. That would do the trick.
Posted December 30, 2017
I'd love to see GoG working together with Devs/Publishers on bringing more (new -- unfortunately nothing can be done with an old release) titles to Linux (talking about native builds here). The number of Linux users will steadily grow for sure.

Edit: and of course Happy New Year, everybody!
P.S. Regarding surprises, the Slitherine bundle was the best one. Cheers!
Post edited December 30, 2017 by i_ni
Posted December 30, 2017
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eiii: 2017 probably has been a good year for GOG. But once again a full paragraph about Galaxy and sadly not a single word abot the Linux version... Not that I'm waiting for it anymore. :P
Same here. I'm already back to the linux supporting competitor.
Posted December 30, 2017
It was a good year, GoG. Thanks for everything! I hope next year is even better!
Posted December 30, 2017
Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Posted December 30, 2017
A great year! I finally could complete some of my favorite collections, at last!

On the other hand, I hope that the team responsible for the accounts of partners (like youtube channels) improve the attention and response to doubts and problems. I have sent many emails due to a particular problem and I have not received any answers in the last few days.
Posted December 30, 2017
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GOG.com: We are legion
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David_OSU: OK, nice to see those numbers for twitter, facebook, and twitch, but for those of us not on social media, I'm curious how many total GOG members (user accounts) there are, and the increase in 2017.

Thanks, GOG, for keeping classic PC games alive.
I do wish GoG could be a bit more open with their numbers
Number of accounts, copies sold, percentage sold via gog vs other platforms and such like.

My guestimate is about 1 in 15 gamers would prefer to use GoG if they have the choice
Posted December 30, 2017
I've been with you guys since you started up. It's great to see the way you have grown. Congratulations for a great year, and here's to lots more ahead.
Allanah
Posted December 30, 2017
I'll just give you guys a short and simple but loud....... HURRAY!!!
Post edited December 30, 2017 by ELFswe
Posted December 30, 2017
It was a good year indeed. Though I don't post here much (or at all haha), know that there's a lot of us who appreciate what you do! :)

Continuing developing GOG Galaxy with so many features, while still keeping the options for people who want to download and back up the games directly (with no DRM whatsoever) is pretty awesome of you!

Here's hoping for an even better 2018 for you guys!
Posted December 30, 2017
I am as proud as can be to a part of the GOG.com family which all of us here belong to! :)

Thank you for everything you have created and given to gamers, from gamers! ;)

Here's to another great year ahead of us! :)
Posted December 30, 2017
2017 had too many sales in rapid succession. I'll admit, I stopped looking at them after a while... Sales help, but there were a bit too many.

But more importantly: 2017 had too many games *with* DRM on GOG, such as GWENT and Goblins, Inc. Fortunately, the latter of which was REMOVED from GOG (rightly so). Glad to see 2017 ending with that removed, hopefully they keep doing customers right and, in the future, keep them from getting here in the first place. We still need to see about Absolver...

I just hope 2018 gets more on GOG -- maybe start allowing games in GOG they previously rejected for "too niche" or whatever reasons but are successful elsewhere.
Post edited December 30, 2017 by mqstout
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