Good Old Games - Massive Sale

[Gospel]

http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/

290 games up to 50% off.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

oh shit so that's what gog stands for. thanks for the post. going to add this to my site.

 

[nonameo]

are these digital downloads or do they ship you the original game?

 

[Gospel]

Digital downloads. They're made to be compatible with newer operating systems as well.

 

[dmoney1980]

thanks OP !

 

[Throckmorton]

Whoa, Tyrian

 

[Peremptor]

They usually include extras such as the game's OST. GOG is plenty good alright.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Got Planescape even tho I already had it around here somewhere. Never realized all the mods for it. Sweet

 

[bigsnyder]

Thumbs up for Planescape.

 

[MrCoyote]

So this is a legit website with legit games? Did they buy the rights to sell these games as digital downloads?

And yes, Planescape was awesome. I still have the boxed games of that and Baldur's Gate I, II, and Collector's Edition big box.

 

[Gospel]

So this is a legit website with legit games? Did they buy the rights to sell these games as digital downloads?

Yes and yes.

 

[The0ne]

Highly recommend gog to you all even though I feel so hurt by their shenanigan last time. Hard for me to come back after that and yea I've tried several times to get a few games but just couldn't bring myself to support them.

Again, good for you guys if you are new to them or don't feel "burned" by them.

 

[gorcorps]

Highly recommend gog to you all even though I feel so hurt by their shenanigan last time. Hard for me to come back after that and yea I've tried several times to get a few games but just couldn't bring myself to support them.

Again, good for you guys if you are new to them or don't feel "burned" by them.

???

 

[gorcorps]

Also, Psychonauts may be one of my favorite 3D platformers ever. If you've never played it and like things like Jack and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, etc you must get it.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/psychonauts

 

[einstein4pres]

In for Planescape:Torment.

 

[dmoney1980]

In for Planescape:Torment.

never played it. any good ? what would you compare it to ? also, what res can you play these games ?

 

[ImpulsE69]

awesome game if you like old school D&D rpgs...it is alot of reading though. Contect is great, nothing like they do today. There are a bunch of mods that lets you play it in higher res etc. Highly recommend.

It's like Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale..etc

 

[ImpulsE69]

Also, not sure if you guys noticed...you get 4 games free for signing up. Tyrian 2000 being one of them which is a great shooter!

 

[DarkForceRising]

???

He's probably referring to a month or two ago when they came out of beta. They relaunched the website, changed some features, added some big new games, etc.

Except, when they did it, the page just went down with no warning whatsoever. They left a message on the screen that made it appear like GOG was going out of business, and that people would somehow be able to download the games they had purchased later that week. This took place immediately after a big sale, and people who had just a few minutes prior been making last minute sale purchases were unable to download the games they had JUST purchased.

A few days later, it was announced that GOG was actually only coming out of beta, they weren't going out of business, etc. They took the site down for a week (presumably because they were making server upgrades) WITHOUT WARNING, brought panic down upon their customers (going out of business? OH NO), and then when it was all over, released a video basically laughing at those people and saying they were "sorry" that their customers didn't "get" the joke.

A message of "Hi, we just removed access to your legally purchased games for a week because we thought it was funny" has not endeared them to a lot of people.

 

[mikeford]

If you knew the storefront was in beta, whats the big deal.

Kinda sucks, likely nothing they could do, and I assume you did get your games eventually?

Personally if I didn't get what I paid for after a few days I would have disputed the charge with my credit card.

 

[coloumb]

Awesome if you missed out on some of the old school games [either just missed them or they were too #$@#$ expensive back then].

I personally didn't like how GOG handled the beta to release phase...But.. whatever - free is free, the games are DRM free..and cheap.

 

[DarkForceRising]

If you knew the storefront was in beta, whats the big deal.

Kinda sucks, likely nothing they could do, and I assume you did get your games eventually?

Personally if I didn't get what I paid for after a few days I would have disputed the charge with my credit card.

I wasn't really expecting them to come out of beta. Kind of like those perpetual Google betas.

Thing was, all they had to do was say, "hey, we're exiting beta, we need to take the servers down for a few days" with a day or two advance warning, and I think everyone would have been fine.

What I mentioned about purchasing wasn't really an issue for me, I just know some people had problems with not being able to get their games.

I personally didn't like how GOG handled the beta to release phase...But.. whatever - free is free, the games are DRM free..and cheap.

Yeah, pretty much. What happened basically lowered my opinion of them by a decent bit, and now I download backups of all the software I buy there.

 

[SHAQ]

Damn. Thanks a lot OP. 7 games purchased.

 

[Mitch101]

GOG doesn't contain DRM either.

 

[CPA]

GOG is also the only place you can buy digital copies of Baldur's Gate I and II and the expansions.