Presenting this as news to GOG customers makes me think someone in GOG promotions has lost touch with who their customers are. There isn't one game on Curse's supported list that is on GOG. Hopefully in this case partnered simply means cross-promotion.

When I saw partnered, I was wondering which developer. We need some classic Bethesda and LucasArts games here. Or, how about partnering with an established Linux distro to start bringing us Linux games. :)

Hopefully this "promotion" benefits both parties, but it's not an offer that would benefit anyone I know. It's nothing against Curse, it's just not for me.

*headscratching*

So the only people who have heard of this mob are those who might have played WoW or some other multiplayer type games and maybe modding right? (thought NexusMod's is the better modding destination)

So anyone aside from 1-2 people who commented today actually have an existing premium or/standard membership with them?

They have a client downloader (anyone else wondering if GOG might try and either use theirs or something like it?)
Possibilities of using their network for gaming for GOG games in future? (havent checked their game list though)
I can see how right now that announcement benefits GOG in terms of advertising like others have said, but im wondering whats the point of making it an announcement here?.

This doesn't benefit GOG.com users in any way.

Dear GOG, please promise us that the "Curse client" will never be used to download, install, or update any GOG games. Thanks.

Well, I hope if anything good comes out of this it's that any premium Curse.com member who scores a GOG game is indeed a member, new or existing, who notices just how cool GOG really is.

There exists some clever marketing in this though, and it does benefit GOG members as it helps strengthen our user base; for every Curse.com premium member who makes an account on GOG and scores a game here, that comes back to help promote GOG as those new members run the chance of purchasing even more titles, and this chance is amplified over the simple fact that they were more than willing to claim a free code to a classic GOG title, which shows some interest in older games. While there is a large variety of things to see and score at Curse.com, most of it is online and MMO related. To bring in some of the MMO crowd to GOG.com could very well be what GOG is planning for and hoping, as it's a huge crowd at that, and many have no clue what GOG is and what it stands for.

To convert just a few MMO players to GOG lovers would be a great thing indeed :)

FYI: I was one of them, since MMO's were my mainstay gaming platform for over a decade until 2013.

Here's to the future! Happy 2014!

That sums it all up really nicely. I cannot understand why this would bother anyone here. Why would it be bad for GOG to enter mutually beneficial partnerships? It's just win-win for both parties and by extension that means it's a win for us when GOG prospers and can continue to serve us up the games we want in DRM-free form. What's not to love? You make a great point there.

As for Curse.com, well just ignore it if you don't care to see what they might have to offer you. No harm done. I will say, you do not have to pay a penny to utilize the Curse client with the games it supports should that benefit you as it happens to benefit me personally. I'm sure it doesn't cost anything to use their ad-supported gaming resource sites either should you wish to.

Some of you folks might even like what they have to offer even for free if you just gave them a chance you know. I admit I haven't bothered myself as of yet beyond using the WoW stuff and client but that is great honestly for a WoW gamer. They probably have some other good resources too.

I think sometimes people are too hard on GOG. They've been doing pretty good as far as I am concerned. It might be good to live and let live a little while they are simply trying to grow the business that benefits all customers here.

I think it's naive and close minded if you think the typical GoG customer is a certain 'type'. Not everyone who buys on here:

a - Shuns new games
b - Shuns Steam
c - Shuns any game with DRM

I'm not even sure exactly what Curse is judging by the site. I don't see an about us or what our mission is or anything like that.

Oh, so Curse is an ad based client/manager (like raptr/vulcan) that has a subscription service. Why didn't anyone just say so? It's not really on their site or anything, you have to figure it out.

If someone wants to spend $4.95 for a game on here and there, that might be a value at least. You know that none of us are going over there so I'm sure you know we know what you guys are up to. ;)

That would kick so much ass >>

I can't resist adding that from experience I have nothing positive to say about Curse.com. I've seen them obtain sites where the content and work was done by the users (for example think Wiki like sites) and once they control it things go decidedly downhill, even if you exclude things like new adverts being added.

This practice alone of running around buying out sites where the users have added all the content only so Curse.com can control it and turn it into something profitable for them is in no way a good thing. Just imagine if one company got a stronghold on all the gaming Wiki like sites, at that point how long before they flex more of their muscle for more profit and parts of the sites become "premium" features.

I used to be active on one such wiki like site and by the time Curse.com was done with it I couldn't bear contributing to it anymore just so they could control and profit from it while assimilating it to their liking.

Actually, as someone who's used their simple client for a long time I'd like that a lot, particularly if it would (optionally) update my games for me automatically. That would rock but I'd be the first to agree this probably should be an optional thing as some people simply hate the idea of any sort of client and GOG's customer base as this thread illustrates quite well actually can be a fickle bunch. So keeping the options open is a goodness.

But the Curse client software is actually very simple and works very well. It would be awesome for everyone here that would like the OPTION of having it to download their games, install them and update them as needed. I know some do not like this but there are also a lot of people who do and even consider the way GOG does things presently to be pretty backward in this day and age. The percentage numbers for people in each camp are beyond me but it might be a good thing to do an official poll on to test the waters.

On the other hand, this is all purely speculation and this deal may entail absolutely nothing more than what was announced - period. I do think though that picking up a tested, working client here would be a good next step for GOG personally and I hope they do it. I guess we'll see if anything comes of this down the road.

The client could easily support the selection of and automatic install of mods to GOG games which would be sweet. It was made for this purpose to begin with (for MMO games) and excels at the task I can tell you from experience.

It's basically a site that has mods for games... and is very mediocre at it too (except for mmos, they seem to be mostly for games like WoW ... but their single player mod selection is laughably poor compared to other sites .. i.e. Nexus).

Also, none of the games Curse has things for seems to even be in the gog catalogue, so I fail to see the point of the partnership here... just seems weird, since Curse is used almost exclusively by MMO gamers looking for UI mods.

Thanks for the explanation.

Hmm, maybe it's no more of a partnership than what appears on the surface, just a mutually beneficial exposure promo to try to increase membership.

Is this really still going on?
Curse gets a few games as a sales tool and GOG potentially gets some new customers.
That's ALL so far.
Sheesh!

The internet can never let an opportunity for drama go to waste
I see a lot of potential for that, especially if it became more compatible with gog games. There is a lot of demand for an OPTIONAL Steam-like client, and this could be the answer for this.