Nope.

I am hoping for GOG to release more shooters in their library like:

Rainbow Six 2 and 3, Call of Duty 1,2, and 4 Crysis 1, F.E.A.R., Doom 1,2,and 3, Marathon games, System Shock 1 and 2, Bioshock 1, Quake games, mabye Battlefield games
and lets not forget Wolfestein 3D oh and if by some sort of miracle Half-Life 1

I mean for a DD service dedicated to PC gaming it forgets to put more shooters which was (and still is) a prime genre for the platform.

LOL, and here I am making DVD's for all of my GOG games. Yeah, I'm loony.

I would say that there is a reason behind my madness though. Number one, of the games I already owned they almost always need patching whereas the GOG games don't, and number two, my internet is over $60 USD a month, and there is almost assuredly going to come a point where I can no longer afford that and I want to have my GOG games available if/when that eventuality ever comes up.

If I own a game with DRM I generally will pay $5 or less to replace it with a DRM free version. GOG's $5.99 price point falls in nicely with that, and I have bought many games here for that reason. That said it is not an insta-buy at $5.99, and I would never spend $10 just for that. Usually a GOG sale is when I get games I already own to rid myself of DRM.

Also GOG honestly has very few games DRM free that aren't DRM free elsewhere too, if they are sold elsewhere. When we start seeing older Steamworks or SecuROM games here DRM free (like Riddick) I will be more pleased.

Can't really justify re-buying, even though I much prefer owning a game on GOG.

I have checked my download and retail collection and I think I only re-bought a few out of more than a hundred games. It was probably a mistake. I forgot that I still own them.

However I bought a lot of games here that I played in the good old past, even if I do not really plan to play them again. Like a late pay back what I *cough* borrowed

I've rebought some retail games I've boxed up somewhere, while I also purchased again a number of games I've sold, lost, given away over the years. The former might be going into a landfill in the near future. I've pretty much sworn off on disc-based games once I started going digital. That was around the time GOG came on the scene. GOG certainly wasn't the main reason for me to do so, but it most definitely helped a lot in that transition.

I've also bought some Steam games again here that I've bought before I went the DRM-free route. I get that some people may not care that much about DRM, but I don't want to deal with middleware that may or may not prevent me from playing my games. In addition, I'm looking at enlisting in the military again in the very near future, and I'm bound to have less frequent access to the internet (or none at all at times), in which case not having to rely on being online will play a crucial part in my purchasing decisions.

My apologies for the completely OFF TOPIC, but since any thread with STEAM in the title seems to attract lots of readers, I thought I'd ask my question here of those STEAMers out there that might be able to help me.

I received a free version of Civilization V with a computer I purchased (since trashed by UPS) and I have it already on my STEAM account. My family, always giving me stuff for some damn reason, while out at Best Buy, purchased and gave to me the GOTY version of Civ V which includes some DLC content.

How should I go about adding that to my account?? Does this mean I have in essence an "extra" Civ V vanilla game that I could give away?? What if I've lost the piece of paper that had the STEAM code on it that I recieved when I purchased that computer 18 months ago, because I have?? I'm guessing that means I couldn't give away my current Civ V vanilla version since I don't know the code?? (NOTE: And I can't find the code on STEAM either, contrary to popular belief it doesn't show up for some reason like the codes do for other STEAM games)

OT Question 2: BTW, I always thought the technically correct way to type STEAM was in all caps. I see hardly anyone else doinng that so I'm guessing I'm wrong on that???

I don't own any steam games sans HL2, which gave me a crash course in Steam and why I didn't want to buy PC games the way they were headed.

What has happened is by being introduced to GOG I have begun to purchase PC games in a way I have not for some time. So the simple answer isn't yes or no on replacing games, its yes I am buying games. And I am behind so I've spent way too much money, and have a large number of games to get without rebuying things.

Which doesn't mean I am unwilling to repurchase a game, but I need it to be cheap and I need there to be a reason. For example I have UT2004 which is one of my constant playing staples. It also spans 5 disks which has been a pain every time I want to install the linux version. So if it goes on sale here for $5 I just might get it. I also have Alan Wake on Xbox. I enjoyed it so the idea of having a PC version DRM-free was appealing enough to get me to rebuy it.

DRM does effect my buying patterns if that is part of what the question is aiming at finding out.

Hey, a highly controversial thread title and noone took the bait so far - astonishing! ;)

To tell the truth, as much as I prefer DRM-free games, I probably wouldn't pay for games I already bought before unless they're dirt cheap or extraordinarily good. I prefer not to buy games with DRM on them in the first place, and if I do they're mostly guilty pleasures and not keepers.

I only recently started using Steam, and for the most part only for games that use Steamworks, so there's no issues yet with wanting to re-buy any Steam games elsewhere. I have re-bought a few games on GOG that I also have on disc, mostly for increased compatibility with modern systems as well as for ease of installation (not having to shuffle through 6 CDs every time I want to install Psychonauts was well worth the cost of the game on GOG).

"Steam" is a proper noun and not an acronym, so only the first letter should be capitalized.
Unfortunately in the question of GOG vs Steam the results and definitive and not pretty.

Depends on the game. I'd re-buy some games that the DRM managed to ruin. That may seem like I'm rewarding publishers for buggering up the game the first time around, but meh. I'd rather encourage a more positive direction than do some worthless boycott, to be honest.

I would purchase DRM-free versions of Steam games I intend to play again but there are very few of those available on GOG. HoMMV is the only one that comes to mind but at $20 there's no rush. I'll wait until the itch reoccurs.

What's more significant is that I'm now likely to wait for titles that I think have a good chance of showing up on GOG.