In my case, moving. I shifted almost to the exact opposite side of the Earth, from New Zealand to Switzerland. I liked my old discs, and also my old books, but it was much easier to have digital accounts that did not require me to move the hard copies themselves.

Also, if there is something that I did have a copy of on Steam, then it becomes available here I will buy yet another copy because I want to support both the no DRM philosophy as well as GOG itself.

You should play NV! I'm surprised someone with a avatar like yours haven't played this yet. ^^

Like I have a mask of gas and you think that I must have been gasping for air from in new vegas and all the fallouts. I played fallout 3 though. =D

Edit: I have installed new vegas and couple of mods. So I really should play it.

I've had that happen once.

Why Fallout 1, WHY did you have to go like that?

If the game is old, you could try using DosBox.
But this is a good reason, I would pay again to play a classic, if I can't make it work.

I like rpgs but I don't really like walking simulators. I bought skyrim (in year 2011) and it has over 200 hours of play time and never finished.

edit: i also hate games where you pick a neame but you will never get to hear it.. Like in Dragon age inquisition.. i'm herald of something.. I don't like that name. And prob they still have elf male broken arms.. I read bioware blog there's so many comments in there about making a pc game.. That is why I don't get hyped about witcher 3. But hopefully it is better. Nobody likes single player mmo.

again
not everybody wants to go through that
they just want to play the game

my dvd version of sudeki refuses to install on anything other then XP
i can either jump through hoops to get it to work or play the gog version


my cd version of vampire bloodlines had a crack in the inner ring
and when it went it exploded in my external dvd drive and taking it with it

i now have 8 versions of bloodlines
including steam and if it comes here i wil buy it here too !

DOSBox as the name implies is for DOS games only, all my old games aren't just DOS games. Also, several of those DOS games still require the CDs (Realms of the Haunting had 4 or 5 CDs IIRC). Yes, I know you can mount an ISO for such games but it's a little hard when my discs are so far away right now. Also, I'm not sure how this works for DOS games wtih CD audio (like Warcraft 2 and Mechwarrior 2).

I also had a problem with my disc version of Syndicate Wars. After finishing a mission, if you played the next mission, the cars would be replaced with buildings. You can't drive the buildings either so if this happened, you had to exit the game, restart and the bug would go away. However this was moot as whenever I got to a Hong Kong mission, the game would always crash, ALWAYS. The GOG version never did this.

EDIT: I remember my CD version of Star Control 3 not working at all on Windows XP a while back. GOGs version works just fine

EDIT2: Disc version of Arx Fatalis was also wonky, GOGs works just fine

A few of these games I had on a commodore 64 or Apple IIc era device. Even if I still had some of the media, I don't have working machines.

But yeah, for stuff since I bought my first actual PC (first two games I think I bought for my own machine were Daggerfall and Diablo 1), moving has been the killer. I had a huge backlog of discs and print materials, and after a few cross-country moves, anything that hadn't been played at the current location just got donated. Moving is pretty laborious and expensive.

Even if you aren't paying by weight to keep moving that stuff, your back probably is ;)

But the vast, vast majority of games I've bought here (or on Steam) are games I've never owned. I think the only re-buys are Witcher 1, M&M 6-8, HOMM 3, Disciples II, and Alpha Centauri, and those were all things I didn't have a working copy of any more.

I heard that they introduced a lot of bugs in BG.

It was so bad? Maybe I was lucky with the games I bought then, because I can't remember a title that tried to leech money, like you can see today, in pay-to-win games for example.

It's not really "the same shit", it's, as others have said, a very convenient way of storing, installing and playing games. Maybe your original CD (we're not advocating piracy here, right?) won't run in your modern Windows 7, or you have just the base game but not the expansions, or you find it a lot easier and safer to store than having lots of physical copies, or you are fed up of carrying around the damned CD box because you need it to play the game due to some DRM stuff.
And making all this happen requires a lot of work which is what the people at GOG does. If you don't think this is worth your money, fine, don't buy them.

By the way, If you don't mind some constructive criticism, your first "please don't hurt me, I'm just sayin'" statement doesn't quite match up with the other "GOG are a lazy greedy bunch" parts.

Bundles mostly :). For example the Nordic In&Out was something I couldn't refuse at 90% off.. On the other hand I also re-buy games I have here on steam (also because of bundling).
I rarely buy games directly from steam, and only games that are unavailable here.

I didn't say GOG was lazy...
I was talking about the "devs" of remakes / HD editions.

I heard the same, I also heard they've been fixed but I never felt like shelling out the cash to find out for myself. I am quite content with the classic versions

Sometimes it could be. Heroes of Might and Magic 4 is an extreme example. The base game shipped without multiplayer. If you tried to start a multiplayer game, you'd get a message saying the feature haden't been added yet. sometimes the game crashed after a battle. These problems were fixed in the first expansion, but of course, you had to buy the expansion to get the fixes. The second expansion was about as cliched and blatant money grabby as it got so don't get me started on that one :)

Doom had several expansions (lots of unofficial ones too) that were of course, a cash in on the Doom name. Several popular games had this problem. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword coast didn't add much, just a new dungeon and a few items really. Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter was really really REALLY short, hence why Trials of the Luremaster was offered as a free download.

Quake 2 had 3 expansions, I had 2 but they were simply more of the same. They weren't worth what I paid for them (just over half of the base game IIRC).

Instead of paying just over half for the same game at once, you are now being "nickel and dimed to death" through cheaper but more numerous DLCs. While the method is different, the concept is entirely the same. Not sure if that's worse or not.

There was also an complaint about game manuals, not just expansions. Before, the manuals were actually good to read, but in the late 90's manuals became thinner and thinner, why? Because all the good info was put into strategy guides that were available for separate purchase. Fortunately, now you can just hop online to find a walkthrough, don't need to buy them.

EDIT: Back in the 90's, not everyone had internet access so if game needed patching, it wasn't just a case of downloading it. Sometimes expansions packs were the patch along with extra content

Okay, I read it wrong then. Still, sometimes remakes my be worth your money when they improve on some of the games features, and in that case it still is a lot of work. I have purchased the Baldurs Gate remake and in my opinion is both a huge improvement and very respectful of the original. And this does requires work, obviously; there are some free mods out there that achieve a similar result (not quite as clean) but they need other products and you might not be tech-savvy enough to make them run.