Shadowcaster787

I don't agree with this, it makes GOG suffer as a service. If you feel like getting such a massive discount go break the law and torrent, don't make a quality distributor suffer for something you already own. They need to make money as well, best of all your getting games DRM free how much more liberation can you ask for?

agaiz

I believe it can make sense for a company to offer that kind of service. Why do EA (Origin) or Valve (Steam) do it? Certainly not out of the goodness of their hearts... they do it to bind their customers. Let's say I got a Steam account with one game... I'll be like "Meh I don't care if I give it up or sell it after I'm done with my game". But now imagine you have a hundred games in said account. Since you can't transfer them to another account you are locked into their system. Thus you are more likely to purchase there again in the future. And to be honest, I'd rather have all my games bound to my GOG account than any of the DRM services. So in essence GOG might make more money, even though they don't get rich by allowing the initial activation of a game already owned physically.

KeyperOS

I am assuming we're talking about the older games since "updated" was mentioned. We are talking about 5 USD for all of them old games, even less during a discount, how much cheaper could they be? Even if 2.5 USD would be enough for GOG to get back all the time/effort/money they put into making an old game run on modern hardware/OSes, that would be easily lost with the time/effort/money they would have to put to properly validate that said user is indeed the owner of a legal copy of the game. It's WAY too easy to procure "evidence" of owning a legal copy of a game you've never bought. On a personal note, I have been a GOG user for a mere 30 days, so far I have 59 games on GOG, 8 of which I had already owned yet I've gladly paid the price just to be able to simply install and run said games instead of wasting an hour or so downloading patches, tweaking registry keys, editing game-specific settings on generic emulators or manually moving/renaming files. Not to mention they load faster without the need for the CD to be present in the drive.

Enmoku

CD-key alone wouldn't work since there's bazillions of valid but illegal CD-keys floating about (at least for older games), and then GOG would need to maintain list of all valid CD-keys - or the algorithms they're validated with - for all titles. Similarly, physical copy in a picture of you... how do they know the picture is of you? I could Google up some image of a guy holding up a game, give it to GOG and tell that's me.... or something. The only reasonable way they would have is if you actually send them your physical copy of the game, they validate it as authentic, and then send it back, which probably costs the same or more in total than actually buying the game here in the first place, same for actually going over to GOG's office to show it off, even if you live near them. So, no.. I won't vote for this since there's really no reasonable way to do it.

martiz

I would really approve this idea 'cause I've a lot of games here in physical form which I would like to discard for a few bucks or even free. And I won't mind to spend some bucks on discount if proven for having owned that game physically (CD-Key, Time-proof-taken picture or whatever).

Horrorkraut

Man, the games here are already dirty cheap don't be so stingy.

Limba

I think biggest problem is the how to proof that you have orginal game already. Next problem is how much they pay to orginal distributor. I already rebuy Sam&Max Season 1&2 and XIII. Sam&Max was mainly DRM free and with XIII I had droken disk. I didn't buy Psyconaut because I got it from Humble Bundle with Amnesia

jpolastre

As wonderful as it sounds to us customers, that would be a terrible idea because there's no way to verify it and people would abuse it constantly. "oh look,GoG just added a game I always wanted, but I'm too cheap to pay 10 bucks on it. No problem, I'll just inform I already own it and then it will cost me only $5" Too bad there isn't a downvote button here, because I would use one right now. Hey I have an idea for a different site request feature!!

JohnyR82

It might be difficult to implement properly, but I'd second that idea. Sometimes, we already have the original game and would like just to spare a buck or two as a token for developers (or to ensure better compatibility).