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Looking back at 2017 on GOG.com

We made it! You made it! 2017 is almost over – and whatever your take on the world at large, only one thing can truly be said for certain: it's been a great year for all of us here at GOG.com – thank you for being a part of it!

Let's take a brief look back at the year 2017...





Over 2000 DRM-free games
Our catalog passed two thousand titles in 2017 – but if you know us, you know it's not just about the numbers. These are over two thousand unique experiences that we truly believe are worth playing!

Did somebody say good old games? Well, we brought back quite a few of them this year – the really tough ones and the ones we really missed – restored by our talented teams and friends across the net. There is the Jazz Jackrabbit series – CliffyB's gaming debut; SWAT 4 – happily no longer among PC Gamer's "15 great games you can't buy digitally"; The Suffering series – with scary monsters by Stan Winston Studios; the delicious Pizza Tycoon series; many long-lost classics Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, Rise of the Dragon, Heart of China; [url=https://www.gog.com/game/titanic_adventure_out_of_time]Titanic: Adventure out of Time… and more!




But the good and old is only half the story. 2017 was an amazing year for gaming, with award winning and groundbreaking productions releasing DRM-free on GOG.com. If the indie revolution is behind us, then this is the renaissance!

2017 gave us Divinity: Original Sin 2 – PC Gamer's Game of the Year and this year's most popular game on GOG.com! Followed by Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice – Best Audio Design, Impact, and Best Performance at The Game Awards; the niche but loveable Piranha Bytes RPG; [url=https://www.gog.com/game/cuphead]Cuphead – winning Best Art Direction and Best Independent Game at The Game Awards; and so many others!

All in all, in 2017 alone we released nearly one quarter of our entire catalog – and it's an honor to work this closely with so many talented game developers and great publishers.





GOG Galaxy out of beta
In 2017 the GOG Galaxy client left behind its BETA tag – with a few great new features to boot! We added Universal Cloud Saves, technology which allows us to introduce Cloud Save support to classics and new games on GOG.com (now nearly 300 and counting). Plus an in-game overlay, a built-in FPS counter and screenshot tool, as well as an array of expanded settings allowing you to customize the client to your needs. Anyway, that's how we earned our sense of pride and accomplishment.





We are legion
We saved the best for last – and that's you lot. As we grow in size, the GOG word spreads farther and farther out! Tens of thousands of you have joined us this year across social media and our very own twitch.tv/GOGcom channel. That's over <span class="bold">240,000 following our Twitter shenanigans</span>, more than <span class="bold">340,000 of you with us on Facebook</span>.

<span class="bold">As for twitch.tv/GOGcom</span>, we can't thank our dedicated Stream Team enough for sharing our love for games seven days a week. In 2017 we reached 50k followers – oh, it just went up to 51k – and there have been over 214600 individuals watching us so far. If you combine all our 2017 streams, we streamed for 169 days and 15 hours (that's about 45% of the year!) and if you combine all the time people spent watching our channel in 2017, you get 38 years and 272 days!





Thank you so much for being with us in 2017 – we hope your 2018 is amazing, and we can't wait to show you what's in store for this year!
Post edited December 29, 2017 by Konrad
Definitely been a good year for GoG.

I think more publishers and developers are seeing GoG as a viable additional platform.

Publishers I've talked to have been happy with the level of sales via GoG, though as always hard figures are never divulged.

Unfortunately there are still to many, unable to see the potential

He's a few interesting bits I've found.

http://www.pcgamer.com/divinity-original-sin-2-has-sold-one-million-copies/
Nearly 1 in 10 copies sold via GoG

http://www.pcgamer.com/best-pc-games-2017/
Over half those games where sold via GoG
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joppo: On a funnier note, seems that not even elcook (?) is able to escape the forum bug that sprouts when you have several links in the same line. :)
Oh jeez, I was tearing my hair out trying to figure this out. Thanks... >_>
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GOG.com: Thank you so much for being with us in 2017 – we hope your 2018 is amazing, and we can't wait to show you what's in store for this year!
Wait.. are you saying you have something BIG in store this year? Something BIG is coming? :o

Hey! Enough with dirty jokes GOG team! :P

We love you guys. <3
Looking back - I sure wasn't expecting I'll buy so many classics released here in 2017. Keep up the good work, GOG.
Anyway, that's how we earned our sense of pride and accomplishment

Pure homage dig at EA, Battlefront 2, lootboxes, microtransactions, gambling and Reddit...right there :P
2017 probably has been a good year for GOG. But once again a full paragraph about Galaxy and sadly not a single word abot the Linux version... Not that I'm waiting for it anymore. :P
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Thank you GOG for being so great and congratulations for everything you achieved so far. Also again like Gr00T already said, thank you for inviting me along other community members to Warsaw. I am really, really thankful and I am enjoying your service every day.

But if 2017 was great I guess 2018 could be even better by focusing on some issues and maybe even fixing some of those people are complaining about most (to say the truth I am amazed about so many positive postings in this thread given the fact that every third new thread recently seemed to be a complaint). Don't get this the wrong way but here are some things you should try to focus on in 2018:

1) Forum is still broken - please fix it in 2018 or make it even better.
2) The promised default setting to just use GOG classic installers is still not available and there is no ETA.
3) More and more games have problems with not receiving updates on GOG ONLY - please do something to better this situation. Maybe add a refund option for those games or other things that would lead to devs updating their games as regular as they do it on Steam.

These are just three things from my personal wishlist. I don't want to rain on any parade here but I think it's important to remember that even if something is good it can always get better and therefore assuring that the people who joined here will also stay ... maybe some of those who left might also come back ... that would be really great.

That being said I wish GOG and everybody who is using GOG in any way a very happy and successful year 2018.
Post edited December 29, 2017 by MarkoH01
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joppo: On a funnier note, seems that not even elcook (?) is able to escape the forum bug that sprouts when you have several links in the same line. :)
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Konrad: Oh jeez, I was tearing my hair out trying to figure this out. Thanks... >_>
There is a workaround:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/multiple_links_in_a_line_workaround
Excellent work GOG. Keep it up!

It has indeed been an excellent year, and my wallet is still hurting ... and I only joined at the start of May.

Long may we all prosper!
It was a great GOG games year, here's a beer to another great one, cheers! :)
Thanks for being as nice as every year I've been a GOG user. May you keep up the excellent work and bringing more timeless classics to the house *thinking about Prince of Persia 1 - 2, or Commander Keen series :D*

Happy holidays and the best for you all in 2018!
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Over 2000 DRM-free games
Will you please stop counting soundtracks as games and separate them ?
Happy New Year GOG!
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GOG.com: Let's take a brief look back at the year 2017...
It was a very good year and I hope that next one will be even better!
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GOG.com: Thank you so much for being with us in 2017 – we hope your 2018 is amazing, and we can't wait to show you what's in store for this year!
And we (ok, I'm :) ) can't wait to see all that! :)
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GOG.com: Thank you so much for being with us in 2017 – we hope your 2018 is amazing, and we can't wait to show you what's in store for this year!
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PainOfSalvation: Wait.. are you saying you have something BIG in store this year? Something BIG is coming? :o
And here comes over 9999 pages of speculations about what that will be: Dark Omen/Mass Effect/Skyrim/Any other game name here? XD
Post edited December 29, 2017 by Andrey82
Happy New Year!!!
Good wishes for all GOG employees, the devs/pubs who publish here, and ofcourse fellow GOGlins!!
Stay the excellent place to purchase games and experience gaming as you are, GOG!!
Be successful in your DRM-free game store endeavour.

:D
I wish gog can made app in the phone
Post edited December 29, 2017 by sakura654311