Why ? , I think that you are entitled to both your opinion and to express it !
And F.Y.I. then there are other people here that have bandwith limitations or "metered internet" , so once in a while they feel the need "to share" , which is OK .
But , you also then ought to be prepared that someone may have another opinion, and understand that sometimes the response you get is rather related to the way in which you expresses your concerns, opionions, attitudes and whatever......
As far as I am concerned then there is no problem in a civil exchange of points of views and neither ought there be.....

So the point apparently was that downloading several gigabytes is not sexy if the internet connection is not up to the task and if you have to pay extra for downloading that much? No argument there of course. The good news is that there are alternatives to downloading the DRM-free version from GoG, so I think currently all parties are covered.

To me the GoG offer was the best option to get the game now. I checked what the retail version of Witcher 2 is costing here nowadays, and the cheapest one that I found from www.hintaseuranta.fi was 33€ + delivery, and delivery time was marked as 3 days. So to me personally getting the retail version would have cost more (it was little over 20€ in GoG, or whatever $30 is in Euros nowadays), and probably taken more time as well. And apparently I would have had to find out how to remove TAGES or whatever was the original DRM in retail version from my system, while the GoG version has no (even temporary) DRM in it.

Well, even though I planned on skipping the sale entirely, I ended up getting the MoO pack. Not because I expect to play it any time soon, but out of a perceived obligation due to pirating MoO 1 15-16 years ago.

Ditto...

Sounds fair to me, "kid." I remember trading up from 300bps to 1200bps half-duplex so I could be one of the Groovy Kids. Hmm... to sit up all night on a Cat-Fur line, to leech off Ascii Express until the sysop manually pulled the telephone plug, or to log on to a shared, stolen .edu Unix shell account and manually uudecode 70's porn stills with a bloodstream full of caffeine? Choices, choices... Eventually piracy gets kind of old, like having sex with your cousin. When it happens, it's liberating, like the end of pimples.

Here's looking at you, "kid." We'll always have Paris, eh?

Ahh, the eighties. When even in the United States every other grainy, halftoned 640x350 MacPaint uudecoded download was of Samantha Fox, and if you forgot to set your dipswitches correctly on your Epson, the ASCII version would look like a fifteen-foot tall Grey alien... (nostalgic tear running down cheek)

Unless you are a girl , then no I don't think so ;-D

Hey , but how were I to know , when you were "whining" over "State of the art stuff" such as 56 K telephone Modems ;-) and "back when you were a student " - we didn't have "great things" such as 56K modems back when I were "studying". We didn't even have computers, what we had , and that was later after finishing public school, were a cool TI calculator that we could buy cheaply for a lot of money...
Hey ! , so come on , admit it , you sounded like a "kid" with your "whining"....

Anyway , if you are in that age then you ought to be quite satisfied if you are taken for being a lot younger than you are ;-)

Now - go have Paris with someone else, or have Paris herself (from what I hear she acts like a cheap ****) ;-D

Worst thing , I STLL got more of them type printers (Epson , or is it compatibles? - sometimes another dip-switch issue) , I have to I still have old computer hardware for it.....
I were like "in love" with one of them computers (The TI-99/4A)........

Holy cow. "The" use of "quotation marks" in the posts "are" getting a little crazy"."

:)

Sorry guys, I had to say something. (Lighthearted, no insult intended.) The conversation is entertaining, though!

Sorry , "I just can't help it" ;-)

So, that's all that came out of the Gamescom? No new developments from GOG or just simple pictures of the big church in Cologne? Or is the french monk busy signing big stacks of paper...for example securing the extensions of the EA games for GOG? :)

you guys rock! DK AND DK2? AWESOME! I love you guys :)

I must be getting old - up to this point I was thinking Paris, France, not Paris Hilton. Wouldn't touch her with a 20-foot pole...

Was a tad miffed as all my initial purchases on GOG were on sale a month earlier - (MOO and HOMM3) but we're talking a couple of bucks here, and I was thrilled to have nice copies (I couldn't find my MOO2 disks, and somehow I never played HOMM at all - started playing Palm Heroes 2 on my iPhone, which prompted that purchase...)

Now, where was I?

Oh yea - the sales certainly give me something to look forward to here, and so far have triggered one impulse buy - Commandos 2 + 3. Looking forward to many more weekend sales and releases on GOG! :D

Well , I don't think it was your (getting old) age just my tendency to "play on words" and to make "plot twists" out of that as a "come back" - and I wouldn't touch P.H, with a 20-foot pole either.... (and by the way I think that it ought to be spelled and pronounced as "Paris Filthon")
But just so you know, and as an extension to our exchange of opinions here, then someone might actually have had the pleasure of "doing" France herself in her days (she's apparantly still alive). I know of France as an artist and though a lot of "stars" maybe, let's be "diplomatic" and say, less than attractive judging from who they appear to be and how they behave then I have very little information on how France has behaved (but can't be worse than "Paris" ) , but I think that France appeared to be relatively "presentable" when she were young....

P.S.
Though I may not have had France on my bed then I think I still have her on vinyl (Ella, elle l'a )
;-)