Came here for the witcher games. I was surprised to find that it did not sell many major titles. Not even GTA V.

This site has been around for at least several years. It started out selling older games that were no longer available for sale. It has since branched out into indie games, and The Witcher since the people that own GOG also control the company that makes The Witcher.

And yeah, it's not too likely you'll find GTA V on this site. ;) But there are other places to buy it, and it's not like they're against selling it here. Some publishers balk at the DRM free side though. Not saying that's what's keeping GTA V off the site (it could be any number of reasons I won't go into, for brevity), but it could be a factor.

its a drm free site
gta 5 has drm so its a no go here

gog has been around since 2008 so not exactly new

and it sells mostly old games up to but not limited 20 years old

and what do you mean not many major titles ?
we got
lego games
star trek
star wars
nordic
deep silver
lucas arts ( let me repeat that ..that )
and the game son offer grow day by day

1087 games

surley there wil be a few "major"games in there

Well, this site was created by gaming freaks who wanted to bring Good Old Games (GOG) back to the people. In the first few years they only sold old games legally, games which you mostly only found on half legal abandonware sites.
In the last 2- 3 years GoG began to bring newer games to their customers, so this is the reason why you don`t find much newer games here.
A second thing is, that GoG doesn`t use DRM, which means there is no copy protection for the games they sell. Many companies still don`t want that their customers have the freedom to do what they want with the bought games, so they don`t allow GoG to sell their games.

Edith says: Ninja`d!

Yup GOG is free from the shackles of DRM and a subsidiary of the same corp that owns CD Projekt Red. And the people that run GOG? Well, they should need no introduction. https://youtu.be/_nLynJnA84I It's true. We told Rockstar we didn't want their GTA V with its icky DRM.

well personally i prefer saints row over gta

GOG.com only sells DRM-free games, whether they are old, new, classic, or indie or something else. They only sell DRM-free games that they can get global distribution rights to among other factors. The big name publishers of most AAA games for the most part are not fond of the idea of selling their games DRM-free these days because they have different priorities, views on copy protection and other factors that are incompatible with GOG's policies and mission which is to promote DRM-free hassle-free consumer friendly gaming essentially.

The site has been around for many years now and grown fast in the last 7 years or so. Convincing publishers to offer their games DRM-free with global distribution and other factors is a tough sell, but they keep putting up the fight and from time to time they score a victory such as bringing on Disney/Lucasarts last year with all the Star Wars and other big name titles, some Warner Brothers games, and more recently the Darksiders and Saint's Row games and Metro Last Light Redux.

A lot has happened in the last year that we're now seeing some serious forward movement with more and more publishers becoming more comfortable with DRM-free distribution, but it is a very long road to go yet and some of the big companies are likely going to be very resistant to the idea and possibly never consider it.

So in the current time anyway you're not going to find Rockstar Games here, nor modern Ubisoft or EA games here (although there are some of their older classic titles here), nor most other big name AAA releases unfortunately, but we are starting to see more bigger name games slowly start to trickle in, and that seems to be on the rise.

So GOG's big selling point isn't having all of the best new AAA releases, but rather selling new/old/classic games they're able to secure a partnership with a publisher for in a consumer friendly DRM-free format to reduce the hassles and frustration that all the various annoying copy protection schemes cause and which most of us are totally fed up with. :) They have fantastic customer support, and they try to make all of these games new and old work on all modern operating systems as hassle-free as possible, as well as including as many bonus goodies as they can muster (artwork, videos, wallpaper, maps, soundtracks, you name it).

Of course many people here would love to see more current and new AAA titles in the store, but only DRM-free like everything else here as that's the core heart of GOG's business model and ideology, as well as that of the majority of their loyal customer base.

Hope that helps to understand GOG.com and their goals and offerings better, and hopefully we can interest you in the wonderful world of gaming without annoying copy protection garbage. :)

Only sell DRM Free games which aprroved by publisher/developer.

This site is awesome for me and others cause it sets up all the games we played as kids to be able to play them on modern machines. I know you can screw around with DoS box, but I honestly can't be bothered to. In one way this game does sell major titles, just they are all mostly 10 years plus old.

I personally really miss buying games where I could just install it and play.
Even lend it to a friend to see if they would like it. One reason I don't buy new games these days, spending $70-80 dollars to see I hate it but can't return it cause it's now locked to my steam account.

Lets not even get into the few games where you need to be always online to even play single player. Just not worth the bother.

We've got Deus Ex. Why would we need anything else? The game is so awesome you can even use it as snow cat repellant.

I wonder if I can install Deus Ex as a mod in Skyrim to repel snow cats?

If you can't, it only goes to show the lack of quality on skyrim's mod scene.

Did you know that there's a mod for DX that turns the pidgeons into rats when you shoot them? Rats with wings indeed!

No, still haven't done more than an initial trial run for a few hours with Deus Ex just to see it. :) I'll end up solving it some day though and I'm sure it'll probably be aided with you prodding from time to time. :)

we need vampire bloodlines

a much better game

Everyone keeps saying that...

What we seriously fricken need here... is a Kickstarter to raise money to pay for $LAWYERS to track game IP owners down and slap them silly into making a deal with GOG. :)