By the way, if you can't wait for it to come out on GOG, Gamersgate has it too. It comes with the soundtrack. It's only $19.95, so factored by 3, each game roughly costs just slightly more than what it will be (likely) sold here on GOG.

The first release was confirmed to be lacking even a manual. There are no mention of bonuses on any of the game's pages. In fact, the normally standard bonus bar is entirely absent. This was the case in beta and it hasn't been updated since then.

When the games come out on Gog, there will be no bundle deal, and by the looks of it we won't have them till atleast 1 or 2 weeks from now. $26

so, apparently we didn't really get anything out of coming out of beta, except for some contests that only a select number of people will win, lists no one cares about.
Tech Support is still borked. and the release schedule is still painfully slow.
You want to win back our love Gog? how about releasing these games this freaking week.

Both unreleased AOW's are $10 on GOG. So in fact it's quite a bit less. No mention of DRM though. It tells you to look at the game's individual pages and there aren't any.

But regardless, Gamersgate wins this round. If I were to buy them, I'd buy them there.

Cool beans, I thought the next two AOWs are $5.99 as with AOW1.

GamersGate uses online authentication for the installer (you have to be connected and activate the game against their servers during install), after that I think it shouldn't be anything unusual.
Pretty much comparable to Steam in that aspect though.

And I think Napster is a great music service.

I'm planning on getting the series here once it's complete, so here's hoping the extras situation changes by then.

You can circumvent that process. At least, I have been able to for all the games I've bought and played thus far. Can't beat them low prices!

You're thinking of the downloader. Which actually makes it more comparable to GOG in that regard. Anything in the actual installer that requires authentication was put there by the publisher.

The only real downside to Gamersgate's DRM-free games is that the downloader deletes the installer once you've installed the game, regardless of whether or not you choose to keep the rest of the files.

But that's easily overcome by copying the install directory to somewhere else when the installer starts (or at least before you close it). Well, let's hope you're not waiting too long for the soundtracks.

Well, I'm tired of waiting for the rest of them to show up here. To one of the alternatives I go!

Ultimately, the window of opportunity for GOG has now officially closed in relation to these games. The only people who's likely to buy now is the people who absolutely must have all their games DRM free. Everyone else will just buy the (substantially cheaper) Steam or Impulse trilogy bundles.