I would certainly never suggest the use of No-CD patches, but I would also never purchase a videogame less than 90 days old, with final patches in place, which didn't have a No-CD patch available. DRM is where you find it. Windows Live and Steam are for people with too much time, and unmetered Internet, on their hands, by the way. They don't count as "games for sale."

While I can give you moral support to the "No-CD patch" attitude (because I have a JoWood game on original CD that couldn't be run on my computer and they basically just told me to swap either my DVD-drive or my computer) then I would also have to remark that more games, because of protection systems, requires original CD/DVD for installation so unless that you got that then one have to use "warez" too, which I think is something completely different (and another discussion), so often the "No-CD" patch can maybe only be used after installation unless using "warez".....

I am extremely ambivalent towards Steam because it has both more advantages but also more *very serious* dis-advantages.....

Where I live , then - at least at the moment - then anyone with "a good head on their shoulders" got "unmetered Internet" if they have Internet.... At present the industry is pressing matters by the attempted lure/pressing people into "the always online life-style" and internet connections per mobile wireless only, but as is now then I honestly can't think of anyone I know, where I live, that haven't got "unmetered Internet" if they got Internet - just different speeds.

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I have however seen that after the introduction of very high speed internet connections that some companies is imposing what they call a "fair use limit" (which means that people have a limit to how many GB they would be allowed to suck each month from their connection) , but I wouldn't recommend such a solution to anyone I knows - not even for the speed.... I prefer the total "flat rate" concept - some months I'll download a lot some months relatively little .....

Jolly good for you. Sincerely. It must be nice to have flat-rate unlimited Internet access. I'm not sure it's down to any cleverness on your part, but if you use it as hard as you can, you're clearly on the winning side.

I pay for my games. I have a big shelf of physical media. I hate swapping discs as I hate Hell. Having bought a game, I keep it to myself and do as I like with it. GoG didn't invent that idea, and, back to the issue, doesn't have a monopoly or even a "better mousetrap" on the idea, if "free" 8Gb downloads are any indication.

Can I just mention again how nice it must be to have limitless broadband? Back when I was a student it meant 56k all day and all night.

I think that you seriously underestimate me and others when you write " not sure it's down to any cleverness on your part". I have been really great at consumer things and people do not always "eat" what is being served to them , so many people have complained when not satisfied and I think that with repect to this then that is "cleverness". Also , maybe you do not understand the power of "the word of mouth" or the "power of the medias" . Our greatest ISP at some point not only charged a monthly fee but also a very high price for each MB of data, and since dial-ins were more common back then (so people I knew, or their friends potentially could get "hurt") , then I called the responsible middle manegement and told them how they cheated people and basically what a**-holes they were for treating people that way. More must have complained because they got rid of the concept.....
Also , for many years I were adviceing a large number of people (and their friends) about what served them best - still does at a much much smaller scale. So I have not only helped houndreds or thousands to "make the right descision" but also in the process of doing that allowed them to gain access to my method of thinking and way of attacking problems , thus educating them in the process and basically making them better at making their own desicions....

If you "have a big shelf of physical media" then I probably "got a huge"....... ;-D

I am sorry I did not catch what you meant by the :
" doesn't have a monopoly or even a "better mousetrap" on the idea, if "free" 8Gb downloads are any indication. "

Our flat rate broadband ? .
Please listen "kid" , you are having this conversation with one that once could only dream of having such high speed as "56k " dial-in speed. When I started then speed were much lower, hell - we didn't even have internet to start with - we started with BBS systems.
Bulletin board system : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
And there were no such thing as a browser , you used "terminal program" or a special software , all which you had to learn to use... And then you had to know how to use the BBS itself. , on top of that then I had no directory over BBS' so sometimes one would be lucky just to get access, I think that you also needed a valid password for some of them)... (and when the internet started then there were all kinds of basic setup problems also)
I even have a 300 BPS (Yes! , 0.3 K) (combined telephone and modem) on a shelf in the room were I sit , admittedly I have never used it because it is for a computer that is non x86 compatible - but we started at speeds way lower than "56K" , and back then , when worst I think that I actually had phone bills like USD $100 per month just for the use of the dial-in internet when that came.....

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Oh! , and yes! , even to this day I got a 56K modem attached to the computer which I use to communicate with you (and still got a dial-in account also !!!!) . I have used it when in-between ISP providers to pickup mail. Else I sometimes use it to Fax documents (yes ! , strangely enough, other things than snail-mail and e-mail are still used). (probably the dial-in account will be phased out by the ISP at some point in the future..)

I ALMOST saw message "Nice, you own all games from this promo." So I purchased Battle Isle Platinum and now, for the first time, I own all games from weekend promo :-). Wishlist -1, nice one gog. Thx.

I finally bought TW2 and I am very happy. I will play at medium but is worth it. GOG, free DRM, the price, the new game... Time to enjoy.

Got Jagged Alliance 2. Now if only i had the time to play it.

WHY THE HELL do you buy ANY games from a site that announces it will have a promo in less than 24 hours???? I mean, this promo was pretty hyped... I also wanted to buy some games but I didn't, because I know there would be a sale next day, and maybe the games I want will be on it. So really it is only and solely you who didn't learn his homework about 'elasticity of demand' and whatnot... Also, ti isn't you who got the game more expensive, it is others who got it cheaper. So your point is, if your cow dies, so should all the others' cows, right? Otherwise it isn't fair, huh?

Just picked up Jagged games - thanks GOG

Bloody hell GOG, what in God's name are you doing to my balance account? Nevermind, 20 Euros for a top notch game like the Witcher 2 is something I am willing to pay. Now, I just need to wait for the first one to go on sale again and I'll be all set.

Edit: Scrap that, the bonus material itself is worth the 20 and would probably be sold by some less scrupulous company for at least as much.

Hello i just wanted to ask if anyone could gift me witcher 2 while its on sale, i would buy it but i am broke.

Intended or not that is the result of such promos and that's also why I am a big fan of permanent low prices. I guess the true benefit of promos occurs not where somebody buys a game who anyway wanted to buy this game but where somebody who would otherwise not have bought the game, buying the game. Judging from the number of promos here and on Steam and otherwise, the model works. There are enough guys out there who just buy anything that is on sale and still enough guys who buy even if something is not on sale.

I personally have changed my buying habits and never buy without a sale or only at low price levels. Personally I buy from GOG during christmas time because traditionally there has to be the biggest sale of the year or during other sales when it happens that I see them. However I would much more prefer if there would be permanent low prices. I only buy at them anyway and I am a lazy guy. Constantly watching out for promos is like stealing one's own time... just not as nice as permament low prices.
Sorry, not me. But maybe just save money until christmas. I really bet it will be on sale again around this time...

Hey, I feel your pain. I bought MOO1-2 two weeks ago or so, so I lost maybe little less than two euros compared to if I had waited till this promo. Two euros that I will never see again.

To me the promos and sales apparently work as they should: I end up buying also games that I possibly didn't first think about buying. Like I now got the Battle Isle compilation, which in turn probably makes me buy Battle Isle: Andosia War (sale or not), just to make the collection complete.

Even if I buy all the Battle Isle games only on sale, it is still money that I wouldn't have otherwise paid to GoG and the copyright holder. Something is better than nothing.

Further enriched my GOG-collection by buying Battle Isle Platinum and Master of Orion 1+2 at a bargain price! Continue to bring us AAA-titles from the past and I will continue to support you!

Okay, so I was a crying baby about overbidding by four dollars on a game I would have bought eventually anyway. The point is that "eventually" is a quantity I'm going to re-evaluate with regard to premium games. I'm not proud of the number of $6 specials I've tossed into the basket along with the one or two I logged on to buy, so we're on a level playing field there.

The other guy started sputtering and debating an imaginary opponent's imaginary points -- on the Internet, everyone co-wrote "The C Programming Language" and owns a mansion and a yacht -- so I went off and did something else instead.

But you have a point about crying over a missed sale, so I'll share: I did get two messages from people who also don't have unmetered broadband, and agree that 30USD + an 8.6 Gb download that takes several days is kind of a 1999-style "half-off" online bargain.

I don't blame GoG for the lack of utopian fat pipes free with every clock radio or USB extension cable, but the point needed to be made, and I made it, and I'm done. From now on I'll keep my alternate vendor decisions and bandwidth inadequacies to myself. Meanwhile, the last game I "warez'd" was some Electronic Arts title for the Apple II in 1986 (not Madden, oddly enough)... I actually strained my brain and figured it out last night. I'm just a little proud of that.