So why even pirate them?

Hello, everyone. Love the site, decided to join after the 'we are closing down, JOKE' issue, love the site, allowed me to play some great games, psyconauts and the longest journey had been out of my reach till then.

Welcome to the forums.Yeah just got to love that about the site,many great old games here that you may of all ways wanted to try or are great but you never heard about them before.Thanks to goodoldgames we can now play them!Again welcome to the forums!
Don't forget your free cookie and milk,we made just for you on the table over there on the right.

Hello all!
My name is saeed!

I live in Canada, currently working at ibm, Just built my new PC!! so now i can finnaly get back into gaming. Hoping to buy witcher 2 when it comes out but gotta play witcher 1 first :P which i just bought. I used to play CSS,, which i had to stop playing since my old computer was getting really bad and old.

Dont know what else to say about myself!

Was just told about this site yesterday and its amazing so many amazing games for cheap! i have just purchased witcher and lookinf forward to buying witcher 2. Also looking to buy icewind and icewind 2 after in the future

edit: Apparently I misunderstood how it works. It was my mistake though. I'm sure there will be a fix floating around for it pretty quickly though and I'm still happy overall with GOG.com.

No problems purchasing and currently downloading at the maximum speed my bandwidth allows. Thanks for the freebies too! Going to pick up Torment.

This site is ace in my books.

But your sig says you're from the USA.......no - wait....;o))

Welcome to the friendliest site around - while your're here, take a look at the Good Older Games the site has - Torment is an excellent place to start, bujt I heartily recommend the Frespace series, Outcast, and many many others...

Haha, thought I had to set my settings to a land far, far away. I didn't, alas. :)

I've actually played the ones you mentioned, great games, and many others available on this site but some are going to be a new experience. I grabbed Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader and I'm looking forward to experiencing that - never even heard of it!

Thanks for the suggestions though. :)

Welcome or seeing as your from Aus should I say G'Day,

Sorry bout the link, it was on the radio earlier and saw you were from "Down Under"
Just added them together

Hi all

I'm mjcowley and a fairly new user to GoG. I'm hoping to become a bit of a regular though :)

Excellent, More meat for the grinder.... wait, what?

Welcome, come in, come in, dont mind the industrial dog food grinder....

Cool thread.

I'm 29 and am a Programmer/mathematician.

Always lived in the Montreal area of Qc, Canada.

I started playing games at the age of 6. My first game was on the Nintendo and it was Mario (which came for free with the console). Second game was Duck Hunt (which also came free with the console).

At first, the games I played were platform/action. Since we were kinda poor, we didn't own any games so I grew accustomed to game rentals over the weekend which was fine because I'd finish 95% of my games in one weekend. Most of the games I couldn't finish in a weekend, I wouldn't re-rent, because I got far enough in the game that if I rented it the next weekend, I would probably finish it in the first day. So there are a couple of games I almost finished and that was it.

I got introduced to RPGs through Zelda 2 and later Final Fantasy 2. I consider Zelda 3 to be the greatest RPG I ever played on consoles. Most RPGs took a long time to complete as there are a lot of clues given in the conversations and my understanding of English was practically null.

First strategy game I played was Populous on the SNES.

First simulation game I played was Star Fox, though I more fondly remember Privateer as the first game that hooked me to the genre.

The first economics driven game I played was Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on the SNES.

Once I got my computer at around 13, I left the consoles behind for good (last console I owned was a Genesis). At the time, a friend got me like 100 games on floppies. Amongst them were classics like Ultima Underworld 2 (which I played to the end despite not being able to understand 90%+ of what was written... I learned a lot of my English playing Ultimate Underworld 2 and my English teacher found it curious that I would say 'Farewell' to her when leaving classes), Syndicate, Wolfenstein and Flashback.

However, I lost the games through circumstances I do not recall.

After that, I had a shareware phase where I would get the shareware copies of games, but no the full version. At that time, I was fascinated by games with the first person perspective (around the time of Blake Stone and Doom).

First full games I bought were Might and Magic V, Ultima VIII and Master of Orion. Yes, I still remember the exact titles.

Being poor and all, I always got games that were 1-3 years behind the times, because they were cheap. To this day, I still do. My rationalization for my behavior is that if all the people who pirate games behaved like me, game makers who make good games would still operate in the green.

I took a lapse from gaming in 2005-2010, as I was a bit distraught over my career prospects at the time: the economy was not doing well, I had a hard time finding university work terms and the lack of employment opportunities dictated the kind of work I would get which was not very interesting for the most part... the highlight was porting a chess game from PC to cell phone... the rest was fixing other people's broken code while trying to convince them why re-factorization might be a good idea.

Started playing my older classics again recently and while looking for an emulator (DOS-Box), I found GOG.

I like most game genres. The only genres I can't stand are non-racing sport games (golf games are somewhat ok, but at the bottom of my list).

Hi all, I'm from the UK
And I'm 27

I'm in London

Any one else from the UK?

Good Lord... Another forum, another Welcome Thread. When will this end?

Good enough? :>

L o all . Just signed up . From the UK , in West Yorshire . Mainly FPS online for me but really like the look of The Witcher 2 . So thought i`d get the first one and see where it takes me .