Posted January 30, 2014
In a lot of older games, you could copy disks to your hearts content. So, a lot of games had a security question in game to prevent piracy, something like "In the game manual on page 15, paragraph 3, what is the 5th word?" and you would have to type in that word in order to continue in the game. In the GoG versions of these games, that bit was removed. :)
So, no, you have nothing to worry about if you bought your game here on GoG.
The same holds true for copy protection embedded inside the game. The potion recipes (and precise things to type - it's a pain in the neck sometimes) in King's Quest III. The location codes and library codes in the Space Quest I remake. The alphabet that allows you to solve the Cliffs of Logic in King's Quest VI. I think the KQV copy protection was removed in the CD-ROM version, now the one most commonly played. I believe the same thing happened for Space Quest IV - the copy protection was removed for the CD-ROM version. Haven't gotten to the Police Quest stuff yet, but I'd guess the maps and mug shots are needed still. I don't think GOG removed any of the copy protection, but they do provide the means to play the game successfully because they reproduce manuals and charts that are needed.
As these guys have all said, the copy protection never played much of a part in QFG. The map was a big help in QFG2 (though I naughtily beat a pirated version of it as a teenager before I had money without the map, but have since bought it more than once in collections) and I'd recommend reading the manuals to anyone. The QFG manuals were always very helpful, informative, and often witty (except for QFGV, which didn't really have much of a manual - IIRC).
I didn't ever beat GoG's QFG2 though...partly because I did keep on getting lost and I was too lazy to make my own map. :)
