As long as they remain DRM-free, what's the issue? I mean really?

I know I'm in the minority, but stupid DRM puts me off games these days. The more games GOG gets that are DRM-free, the happier I will be, and surely the better it will be for others.

But more to the point, if CoD games DID start getting released here at $20, no one is making you buy it.

As long as they maintain the same price point and the no-drm policy, I have absolutely no problems with them expanding their business to include newer games. I really doubt that they will stop releasing older games since the presence of old games that has been modified to work on modern computer is one key advantage over other digital distributor.

I took the time to read all the comments so far and what can I say ... I'm really shocked to see so many people BITCHING over someting that is REALLY a GREAT news!

So many hypocrites, sorry to say, but is true. So many acting on instincts, like animals, without thinking a little bit and not reasoning at all!

So many people declaring with peace of mind that "they have absolutely no problem with DRM"!
This insults even the intelligence of a baby!

So many stupid "soluntions" like another terminology for gog, like sister site, like "can you guarantee this ..." or "can you promise that ...".
I'm really beggining to see an idiocracy type society ... One hundred years ago we were 1 billion on the planet and now we are 7 billion ... I clearly see that unfortunatelly is quantity over quality!

Man, gog has a unique place of making history in this shitty bussines that is gaming industry today. And you, gog's customer has that chance too. But no, you're too "smart" bitching over nothing!

I'm not wrong when I see that gog is the ONLY way for us to buy games with peace on mind. All the others treat you like crap ... and remember even a game client IS drm!
I anyone has a chance to kick steam's ass is gog. And you, buying games from here, not from them ... and with any steam buy you make you support drm! this is madness.

Do you really have to pre-order/buy/play all the AAA+++ games first day?
Do playing games is optional or a necessity in life for you? Maybe you can "waste" your life in other more pleasant ways than playing any type of games? like go get a real life?
Think of this when you preorder/buy your next aaa+++ games at premium price and drm-ed to hell!!!

gog has all my support in this direction. I was sure from start that gog will grow an begin to distribute newer games. Just the words "drm free" have the magnet power to attract all the SANE customers.

Sorry if I offended anyone but this had to be said, people should be more rationale with their money and carefully support the right games distributor.

Wonderful post I agree 100% Good Job.

Death to DRM! Death to Steam!

Need to make a T-shirt with that on it...

Well, provided they're DRM-free, newer games are welcome on GOG. I love videogames. If GOG sells old games, that's good. If they sell newer games, that's good. If they sell both, that's even better. :)

I've already said that I think this is awesome news, but I want to repeat it.

I'll admit that in the past I haven't been quite as enthusiatic with my love of gog as some of the others here, but this really changes things. I'm incredibly excited,
Granted, I don't know what games are going to be released here, but I'm sure there will be some good stuff eventually.

I won't buy games from steam or any of the new games with online activation. I like the games I buy to be playable anytime. Not so if the server for some online activated game goes down! If gog puts new games on their list then I'll buy them!

It was said somewhere there would be new games too. I interpreted that as games at the day of their release. It was even said there will be an exclusive.
Personally I wouldn't mind to see new games here, AAA titles included, at full price. Just as long as GOG keeps selling games the way they did. DRM free and at the same price for all.

I think we all agree GOG can't directly compete with Steam and Origin. Partly due to the games requiring those clients, partly due to the lack of DRM at GOG. GOG however should be the #1 alternative. New(er) games and Indy games could help to achieve that. GOG could become very attractive for small developers.

I would be happy to wait 1-3 years to play certain games if I know I can get them here DRM free at that time.

As for release days, there's plenty of room to play with. 2 old games on Tuesday, 2 new on Thursday or something like that. We had double releases before. Also Monday is free just like 1 Wednesday every 2 weeks.

With exception of DRM I doubt games will be different here due to an exclusive. Being the only digital distributor or having exclusive extras like with the Wither 2 can be an exclusive too. Another exclusive could be you buy a new game and you get the previous game in the series or another game from that developer or publisher that's already on here for free or with a discount.

This is great news.

I doubt GOG will get AAA title as big developers got a serious boner for DRM and spunking all over our privacy rights. But I haven't bought a single title from Steam or anybody else like that, so newer DRM-free games on GOG is brilliant.

As this is hopefully a successful strategy, maybe the big fat leeches will lose market share as there just has to be a backlash for pissing all over our rights and treating everybody as criminals by default.

In 5 years, maybe GOG is the go-to-place for games :)

I believe the idea is to start small, mostly with independent titles, and given the common hate for DRM titles, I think sales will be quite impressive. Given that, bigger game studios will have to reconsider their policy on DRM, as after all, their goal is big sales as well, it's as simple as that.

I don't particularly like exclusivity plans, though; it is the worst thing for consumers, as prices are distorted considerably. More competition and choice is always best. To be fair, however, it may be a good start for GOG.com to promote its new service. A real big hit would be if they could offer exclusively Guild Wars 2, though it is unlikely to happen. At the very least, there will be no price discrimination between regions, one of the worst things in consumer products nowadays.

well whats the verdict on games that require cd-key to play ? are they drm free or its considered drm free as long as single player works without the cd key needed ?

As far as I'm concerned, as long as you don't need to connect anywhere to verify the key, it's not DRM. I guess technically it is DRM but in practice, it's not at all restricting and you don't depend on anyone else but yourself to keep the CD key safe - much like you would have to do with the disc if you had a physical copy, only keeping the CD key is much easier.

We already have this on GOG (Arma, e.g.), so this is considered DRM free.

No, a CD key is not DRM because once you have the key you are the authority on whether you can play the game. Well, that's assuming that the last part is true, of course - there could be both DRM and a CD check on a game (for example if the game checks a server for key revocations) but the CD key is not in itself a DRM system.