And I haven't finished Daggerfall yet.

Now, this is awesome how you take care of gamers at gog

I discovered a hidden activation I think.

When installing Oblivion without WLAN connection on my laptop with the downloadable installer and starting it, it won't show the game window. Only when I activate my WIFI the game launches...

EDIT: So no, not DRM free as it seems. I'm thinking of cancelling my purchase if this proves to be true.

Skyrim father, and in some aspects (not many), better than Skyrim itself. Another must have!

One little question :) Will you add this game to GOG Connect in the future? That would be awesome :D

They're not. If you have the Interplay-published versions, there is nothing new in the Bethesda-published ones. (I think one of the blues said back when the Fallouts came back that the Interplay logo in the intro had been changed to a BethSoft one, but that that was the only change. EDIT: Apart from most of the extras being missing from the BethSoft versions, of course.)

I used to play Arena, but ...
... then I got my save corrupted.

Decade passed ... almost two... and the Arena went free.

So I started a new game, escaped the prison, emerged in first city.
And the game crashed within 30s every time, after emerging into the city.

So ... I still haven't finished even Arena. :/

Well I may not speak for everyone but I'm here for the drm free games. If GOG stopped being DRM free then I will stop buying games here and find somewhere else to go. It's one of the main reasons I no longer buy games via Steam and why I refuse to even make accounts on Origin or uPlay (although it seems I do have an Origin account retroactively due to my Bioware account being migrated over since I made one for Dragon Age Origins when I got it on Steam so I could activate the DLC...so glad that finally made it to GOG drm free as well). I'm sure if I added it all up I've spent well over $1,000 on GOG over the years and I have well over 600 games here now. My Steam library only has 123 games and most of those were keys I activated from Humble Bundles which I also have drm free before I just stopped activating keys and stopped using Steam entirely.

Same here, and I'm sure there are a lot of us that would do the same. Of course, by 'a lot' I mean in raw numbers. However, that would likely still be an insignificant percentage out of all GOG's customers. And given the amount of people that are cool with a client (Galaxy), and those are increasing, it would seem that if GOG decided to drop DRM-free, they'd likely not be in danger of bankruptcy at all.

Thanks and well done to GoG and Bethesda! :) This has made my day and I insta-bought Oblivion (as well as the Fallout titles) and am looking forward to delving into Oblivion for the first time.

Once again, really well done GoG.

And same here. GoG has saved PC gaming for me (at least as far as newer games are concerned) due to its DRM free nature. I was ready to quit buying games altogether and switch hobbies, but GoG came to the rescue with its nice and growing library of DRM free games. Much as I love GoG, DRM on games is a redline for me.

Being DRM-free is GoGs competitive advantage over Steam and other digital distributors. Meanwhile, Steam's biggest advantage is its large games library and a network effect, which reinforces it. I.e. Steam being the largest distributor means many companies only release games there, which in turn attracts more users and the cycle continues.

Clearly, the majority of gamers don't care about DRM enough for it to affect their gaming outlays. Nonetheless, the fact that GoG is the second largest digital distributors suggests that a sufficient minority do to make for a viable business. Should GoG drop its DRM-free paradigm, it will lose this market, yet Steam will still have its advantage of scale... it would be a financially very unwise move.

Nonetheless, interesting as this topic is, it is for another place at another time, so this will be my first and last post on the subject here. This thread, after all, is about the good news concerning the release of Elders Scrolls IV: Oblivion... and what good new it is! :)

So back on topic, in the past, I had also bought the previous Elder Scrolls titles here on GoG (all I am missing from my Elder Scrolls collection now is Skyrim,.. hint for the future GoG and Bethesda >)) .

On a more serious note, I haven't played these older titles yet. Wwould you advise doing so, before delving into my freshly purchased Elder Scrolls IV? Perhaps Morrowind only, as the other ones are older and I have read that they have procedurally generated terrain (which I am not a fan of with 2017 tech, much less older tech)?

Almost everyone is cool with Galaxy, there's features it provides you wouldn't be able to get otherwise but the key is that its optional. Even if it weren't optional, they would still offer all the games DRM-Free through the client I'm sure. DRM-Free is very important to GOG's success, maybe saying they'd go bankrupt by dropping it is exaggerating but they would lose more than half their customers if they ever decided to force DRM (There's no doubt that most of us are here for DRM-Free, calling it an insignificant percentage is a severe underestimate). Either way its better to be safe than sorry, It'd be smart to download backups of all your game installers. Not just because of a false fear for DRM, but because of any other factor like huge cyber-attacks or nuclear holocaust (which are probably more likely than GOG dropping DRM-Free lol)

I would probably start with Morrowind. Personally I started with Oblivion so going back to Morrowind was painful and I wasn't able to do it, but if you were to start with Morrowind you'd be able to enjoy both. (Not saying you can't jump from oblivion to morrowind, but you'll get more out of morrowind starting with it)

You should at some stage play Morrowind. There are a lot mods on Nexus for Morrowind which, if you carefully follow the instructions - YouTube have a lot of video tutorials on how to install mods on Morrowind) will make the game look more modern. MGSO is a must. Some people complain that the combat system is bad (you hit things with your sword and nothing happens), but that is only early in the game when your sword skill are low. Past level 40 you are almost invincible. The combat animation looks a bit dated. Check out some "Let's play Morrowind" posts on you tube. On the other hand, it's so cheap on GOG you might as well get and try it out.
Good luck!

I probably never will. It is so damn frustrating to play, those twisty dungeons where you can't find your objectives, the silly gimmicks to buff up your skills (like continously running + jumping, or climbing the walls inside a damn inn, etc...).

Even TES Arena was more pleasant to play, even if it had its problems too.