Why didn't I see any threads about the GOG sale all week? Is it a dead service?

Why didn't I see any threads about the GOG sale all week? Is it a dead service?

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polygon.com/2015/12/30/10691278/descent-games-pulled-from-gog-parallax-interplay
gog.com/forum/deus_ex_series/deus_ex_invisible_war_uses_fairlight_crack
gog.com/forum/general_archive/gog_uses_crack_to_remove_flatouts_protection
gog.com/forum/cultures_series/gog_cultures_2_uses_the_cracked_cultures2exe_nocd_version_by_dynasty
gogwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_removed_from_GOG
gog.com/forum/general/gog_arcanum_release_uses_warez_scene_crack/page1
fuyoh.net/2010/05/06/gog-works-in-mysterious-ways/
descendentstudios.com/community/topic/3254-descent-1-3-removed-from-sale-on-gog/
reddit.com/r/Games/comments/3yqosj/gog_takes_down_descent_from_store_because/
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Sup Forums hates good games and loves Gaben's tiny dick. They're all getting hyped for MArio+Rabbids

Damn..must be getting too old for this place.

We talked about Morrowing being on sale which lead to Gothic discussions
Saw one thread talking about that they have non-DRM New Vegas now.
Sometimes we talk about Ultima...

There's not much to talk about with GoG other than a few old games and their non-DRM policies since we have all of their games on Steam already.

But there's a sale going on right now with prices that are arguably better than Steam's. I figured I would've seen a thread about it but I haven't the past week, while right now theres a thread with like 300 replies for a Steam sale that's not even happening yet

mostly old games and not steam so the Sup Forumsedditors don't care

nah, you just don't go here 24/7, which is good

Alright, if you're gonna post pics like these, it better not be /e/ and it's /h/

Don't keep blueballing me you fuck

No one wants to use GOG cause it has no cheevos

to the average Sup Forums user GoG is just a nice company that repacks old gaems into safe, working versions people can stick in torrents and you can install even if you're retarded

you don't actually /buy/ from them

I used it and I just realized I like it better then Steam.

only sells old games. old gamers won't pay twice and new gamers don't care.

Might buy SWAT 4. Is Neverwinter good?

What, Neverwinter the MMO? Cryptic made it and a korean publisher runs it, that should be enough to know it's bad and cashgrabby.

Neverwinter Nights the bioware game? Campaign was dogshit. Had a great modding community for years but some of it disappeared into nonexistence when IGN/BioWare pulled the plug on the NWN Vault one day without giving anyone the opportunity to back it up; think it happened around the time BioWare sold their asshole to Daddy EA and began to learn just how hard you can get buttfucked.

NWN2 was another obsidian flawed gem. the base campaign was pretty tedious thanks to waaaaay too much filler combat; actually, pillars of eternity was basically the same way.

Slowly but surely, a lot of new games that have been making it's way on Steam has been appearing on GoG. Recently, Bethesda is already unloading all of their titles except for Skyrim and FO4, and Dragon's Dogma has been released.

As for twice the price, that's false as fuck. Some of the old games go for a single dollar in a single GoG sale. No excuse.Sometimes 30 to 50 games with just 50 dollars.

People genuienly dont buy stuff from gog because you can't add the games to steam natively.

Kinda sad.

Yes it does. You just need the client.

I'm an old gamer and I buy my games from there...

how do i download games without having to use GOG Galaxy

Rate my haul:
>Tzar
>Heroes Chronicles
>Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword
>STAR WARS Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
>System Shock Enhanced Edition
>Soldiers Heroes of WW2
>Albion
>Act of War

Steam is cancer

>people still buy games in this current year

Go to your library in your browser, click on the game and then on the file on the left column.

>Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword

Is this any good? Thinking about getting this and the expansions for Warband

Don't you know Sup Forums? It's literally kid's paradise and pirate central.

The stigma about GoG in this place is that since it's a platform that is kind enough to give you the service to download games DRM free, even unloading it into your computer in a separate file, you always constantly see posts like these where "lel just pirate gog games cause they put no protection in their games"

If you so mention GoG for a new game, you'll get nothing but "LOL pirating!"

For how many games? About fifteen, right?

You know how I know GoG is irrelevant garbage that will never amount to anything more than selling breadcrumbs from under Gaben's table? Steamcucks don't even bother trying to attack it, that's how non-competitive and irrelevant it is.

or maybe people who use gog are actually playing games, while people who use steam are too busy bitching about video games to actually play them.

>or maybe people who use gog are actually playing games, while people who use steam are too busy bitching about video games to actually play them.
What has any of this to do with my post? You have the reading comprehension of a 9 year old.

Truth
Truth hurts

>people are too busy playing SWTOR to talk about how great it is
>people are too busy playing Battleborn to talk about how great it is
>people are too busy using Gog to talk about how great it is
I love this meme which is only used to defend failed products.

see
This meme has been going on since at least 2012

Heres a free copy of Alan Wake's American Nightmare that I already own.

CCQ30EC55F759612P5

>it's a platform that is kind enough to sell you games that were previously available for free on Abandonia and HotU, but are now unavailable, because Abandonia and HotU decided to remove most games sold on GoG, since they have to assume that, since GoG is selling these games, they own the distribution rights and have a deal with the publisher, so the abandonware sites don't want to risk legal action against themselves

The hilarious part about this is that GoG doesn't even own the licenses of games they're selling and doesn't always even inform the publisher that they're selling these games. A good example of this are the Descent games that have been pulled from GoG, because GoG did not pay the publisher for selling these games:

polygon.com/2015/12/30/10691278/descent-games-pulled-from-gog-parallax-interplay

Couple this information with the whole Arcanum fiasco where GoG was caught using pirate cracks in their game releases and everything comes together quite nicely to form a complete picture of what kind of hypocritical scumbag shitstains run the place: they LITERALLY sell repackaged torrents (as proven by the Arcanum fiasco) of PIRATED games (as proven by Descent games and other games pulled from GoG in cases where GoG had no rights to sell them). In other words, mongoloids buying from GoG are LITERALLY paying to pirate.

You have to be a fucking brain-dead drone to buy air from GoG. Say what you want about Steam, but at least it sells games it has a legal right to actually sell.

Does this work on Steam? I don't want it on Gog.

I think its just GOG. Not sure why you'd want DRM copy of the game anyway...

Gog is literally paid piracy. It's illegal. They don't have the rights to sell the games. They just download pirate copies with tons of viruses and sell them for premium prices. Gog's execs would all be in jail if they didn't live in a third world country.

Why would you even bitch or complain about GoG in the first place if you can use either or. There is no exclusivity unless you're that much of a Gaben cock sucker. The only thing Steam has going for it compared to GoG is the popularity and the mega AAA titles to pump Denuvo up your ass. GoG literally annihilates Steam in every other regard except """cheevos""". Steam Communities mean absolute dogshit, now that you have Discord.

>now that you have Discord.

This makes no sense. You are a moron or I'm being trolled.

>They don't have the rights to sell the games.
Well, they definitely don't have any IP rights for any of the games they sell apart from shit like Witcher, but they don't need to own the IP rights to sell games, they just need to cut a deal with the publisher to be able to sell them. However, GoG has been caught multiple times selling games without cutting a deal or even informing the publisher that they're selling their games and had to pull those games from their store and people's libraries when the publishers discovered the aforementioned practice.

GoG is run by a bunch of scumbags abusing the abandonware status of old games, except they don't just distribute said games freely, like the abandonware sites of old used to do, they actually have the gall to sell them.

>This makes no sense.
Of course it doesn't, you're a retarded potatodrone with no brain, how can anything make sense to you? Multiple games have been pulled from GoG when these shitstains were caught selling them illegally, but I'm sure that won't make sense to you either.

Yeah, I'm being trolled.

How does it not make sense? We've known for years that Gog sells pirated copies of games. They were caught using pirate cracks by people on the Gog forums. The pirate crack exe even had the signature of the pirates who cracked it. The file actually said
>This game was cracked by [whatever pirate group].

It is not as good as the best Warband Mods, and i mean like the top 20 or so

Viking Conquest has a pretty neat story mode, but not much else

You're delusional moron. Give examples of these pulled games because they were sold illegally.

any hidden gems?

Emperor. (but its really hidden because its on the front page)

@381066931
>The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007. We've talked to them about this numerous times over the years, and finally took action this fall. We served Interplay official notice that they were in breach of the contract, and when they still failed to pay we terminated the agreement.

This means that Interplay has lost the right to sell the Descent games, which is why they came down from GOG. (We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)

>Source: My ass

>Parallax Software still exists and still owns the copyrights to the Descent games. Under our 21-year-old agreement, Interplay has the exclusive rights to sell Descent and Descent II, and they have been doing so on Good Old Games and Steam.

>The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007. We've talked to them about this numerous times over the years, and finally took action this fall. We served Interplay official notice that they were in breach of the contract, and when they still failed to pay we terminated the agreement.

>This means that Interplay has lost the right to sell the Descent games, which is why they came down from GOG. (We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)

>(We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)
(We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)
>(We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)

>The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007
The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007
>The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007

>Interplay has the exclusive rights to sell Descent and Descent II, and they have been doing so on Good Old Games and Steam.
Interplay has the exclusive rights to sell Descent and Descent II, and they have been doing so on Good Old Games and Steam.
>Interplay has the exclusive rights to sell Descent and Descent II, and they have been doing so on Good Old Games and Steam.

The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007

Have you read the article you dumb fuck? It seems that Parallax individually was licensing the game under Interplay's knowledge and having been doing so without paying royalties to Interplay, so they took the games down on GoG. Steam did not.

You're fucking intentionally misleading people in this thread you fucking Gaben cum-snorting nigger.

I've already given you an example, you retarded, illiterate shitstain:

polygon.com/2015/12/30/10691278/descent-games-pulled-from-gog-parallax-interplay

>Parallax said it hasn't been paid any royalties for its Descent games over the past eight years.

GoG has been selling this specific example for several years without actually having the right to do so, there is no excuse.

>Witcher Dev's config DOS box to run old games for a couple bucks a pop and provide DRM free versions of beloved classics on the side
>SELLING THE CRUMBS FROM UNDER GABENS TABLE, DONT EVEN BOTHER ATTACKING

You realize not everything is an epic anime conflict right?

>now that you have Discord

>prices better than Steam

who the fuck buys on steam? is it cheaper than G2A?

Fucking retard

Nigga, did you even read the article? It's interplay that hasn't paid royalties to descent, interplay is the one that put it up on gog.
And yea they used a crack, there was no other way to remove the drm.

ITT: illiterate shitstains incapable of reading comprehension. The scumbags from GoG cut a deal with Interplay to sell Descent games, however, Interplay did not hold the IP rights for the said games at the time, so, technically, GoG was selling the games illegaly for several years, which is the reason these games have been pulled from GoG.

Again, there is no excuse, this is literally a case of GoG selling games they never had a right to sell, you have to be brain dead to defend shit like this.

There's no problem in configuring dosbox for your games yourself unless you're an underage mong who never touched an operating system older than Windows 7.
But by all means please buy your overpriced abandonware, I won't stop you.

>he actually doesn't know
Are you new here in Sup Forums?

>Deus Ex Invisible War uses pirate patch
gog.com/forum/deus_ex_series/deus_ex_invisible_war_uses_fairlight_crack
>Flatout uses pirate cracks
gog.com/forum/general_archive/gog_uses_crack_to_remove_flatouts_protection
>Cultures 2 uses pirate crack
gog.com/forum/cultures_series/gog_cultures_2_uses_the_cracked_cultures2exe_nocd_version_by_dynasty

There are even more. Gog routine sells pirated copies of games for money. It's a scam company.

As I previously said, you're a delusional moron. Read the article again and provide actual examples.

So? That just means both GoG and Steam are same disgusting Jews but Steam at least provide service and games, unlike GoG that only had benefit of being 'fair' but not anymore.

>interplay is the one that put it up on gog.
Yeah, without having the right to do so, you shit-eating mongoloid. So yes, GoG scum has been selling games they never had a right to sell for several years. Remember this once GoG gets caught red-handed again and "your" games get pulled from your GoG library just like all of these games here were:

gogwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_removed_from_GOG

>paying money for stolen keys

Gog did the same with Arcanum but they deleted the thread to hide it.
gog.com/forum/general/gog_arcanum_release_uses_warez_scene_crack/page1

Here's a discussion of the thread:
fuyoh.net/2010/05/06/gog-works-in-mysterious-ways/

Because you can pirate literally every game sold on GOG with no effort.

As I've previously said, you're incapable of reading comprehension and have no clue how the legal system works. Enjoy "your" games being pulled from your library once GoG gets caught abusing abandonware status of games again.

I guess you forgot the part where it said that they were selling it on Steam as well too you fucking retarded little shit, and instead of taking it down Steam just decided to leave it up simply because they didn't want to. The same fiasco during paid mods where original modders were getting cucked because other people were unloading their mods and selling it for themselves. First come first serve. Steam is the ultimate fucking Jews and scumbag here you absolute nignog.

>now that you have Discord

Bought over 40 games, never had a single problem, pay a buck for Shield then if you're too retarded to buy from sellers with 10% rating, or you can pay for pirated games on GoG.

Those are games removed from sales, you can still download them if you had previously purchased them.

>b-but Steam
Typical shit-eating potatodrone. here's a hint: if Steam didn't remove it, they've managed to come to an agreement with the rightful IP holders, unlike the greedy pieces of shit at GoG.

They literally did have the right to distribute the games, but they (interplay) did not pay the royalties they were supposed to, thus breaking the contract after the fact.

>Those are games removed from sales
No, dumbfuck, the Descent games alone invalidate your whole statement. Enjoy losing your games.

>Overpriced abandonware
Half a dozen of my GoG games were free including Saints Row 2 recently, which was a fun revisit. Another handful were imported for Steam including all of Stalker and Mountain Blade, and the rest of the games I've spent $1.50-$3.00 on and are great for convienent Lan Parties.

Plus all the little goodies like soundtracks being provided, I don't know why people think GoG is such a waste of time or piece of shit. Nothing but a bonus in my eyes.

>They literally did have the right to distribute the games
They didn't, you fucking mongoloid, because Interplay did not have the right to grant them such distribution rights, since Interplay was not the owner of the IP associated with the games at the moment when distribution "rights" were granted.

It's because the guys who sell the games or have the license don't even bother with it's source code and don't know where it is.

The games will only work as much as the new Windows and community updates will let you play it. It's already troublesome to run many old games on Windows 10 and if they finally pull the plug on the older APIs, say goodbye to your old games.

Shit we really need a fucking WindowsBOX right now. Too bad PCem is pretty much one man effort.

So? What fucking point are you making? They were both selling it at the time, GoG decided to take it down, Steam didn't.

The point you were making is that it was GoG was doing this alone, because you're a misleading Gaben dick head-bobbing cretin.

Saints Row 2 is a shit port. Fitting because the same company behind Gog made the PC port of that game.

>says GOG is selling games illegally
>links to an article in which Steam is selling games illegally and GOG isn't
Really bakes my bread

More like 200, steamcuck. You are retarded for needing achievements in the first place. I bet you also like Trading Cards and crafting badges.

>abandonware meme
I literally bought a recent game for 5 dollaridoos.
Its the same shit as a steam sale m8 I dont get all the memes

Except you can still download them from gog if you had previously purchased them
descendentstudios.com/community/topic/3254-descent-1-3-removed-from-sale-on-gog/
reddit.com/r/Games/comments/3yqosj/gog_takes_down_descent_from_store_because/

see
and stop spamming already

>Steam didn't.
Because Steam decided to come to an agreement with the actual IP rights holder, unlike the fuckers from GoG who just ran with the money. Not removing the games when you're told to is grounds for legal action, neither GoG nor Steam would risk not complying with the IP rights holder's demands.

>GoG having anything to do with purchasing games
>Not just looking for GoG group releases
lmaoin at u're life

>Typical shit-eating potatodrone. here's a hint: if Steam didn't remove it, they've managed to come to an agreement with the rightful IP holders, unlike the greedy pieces of shit at GoG.

In your very fucking article

polygon.com/2015/12/30/10691278/descent-games-pulled-from-gog-parallax-interplay

>(We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)

You're such a lying fucking shit, it's amazing to what lengths Steamdrone will reach to please their overlord Gaben.

I hope Gaben lathered his dick with Jasmine cream especially for you kid.

*buys game from steam*

Well no shit, you don't get Steam achievements otherwise. However you are allowed to pirate DLC on Steam with impunity so knock yourself out.

Polygon isn't a very trustworthy website.
Why won't you ask Interplay yourself?

It's gotten threads just not all the time.

the article said interplay were licensed to sell the titles, under the contract that parrallax software be given a cut from each sale. since interplay did not give parallax software royalties, parallax software terminated the agreement. i am rewording the article by the way

Again, you illiterate dumbfcuk, if Steam did not remove the games at the time, they had a reason not to (maybe they were planning on coming to an agreement with the IP rights holder, I don't really know). You do not ignore an IP rights holder's demands without a reason not to, because that's grounds for legal action. So you can go fuck yourself with your retarded nonsense. GoG scumbags, on the other hand, just took the mmoney they've made from selling the games illegally and ran. Typical third third-world shitholians.

>cheevos

>under the contract that parrallax software be given a cut from each sale. since interplay did not give parallax software royalties...
...Interplay had no right to grant any distribution rights to anyone else. That's how the legal system works and that's why the games were removed from GoG.

it ok pepe u will hav frend to cheevo with sum day

>Under our 21-year-old agreement, Interplay has the exclusive rights to sell Descent and Descent II

>Somehow GOG is at fault for Interplay not paying royalties
>Arcanum """fiasco"""
I love reading this meme. What exactly is the problem and why should I care? Are they supposed to pay the pirates for removing the DRM? Explain your mental gymnastics.

>gog accidentally selling a game they didn't have the rights to is comparable to the myriad of anti-consumer practices valve has done

WEW

>Steam did not remove the games at the time
>they had a reason not to
i bet

>under the contract that parrallax software be given a cut from each sale
Keep trying to wriggle out of the contract terms, gogcuck, it's hilarious to watch, but here's a hint: the scumbags who run GoG didn't manage to do so and neither will you.

So, in conclusion, let's list the pure facts about GoG:
1. GoG has been caught selling games they had no right to sell.
2. GoG has been caught using pirate cracks in their game releases.

These are the facts nobody can argue. Now, if GoG were caught using pirated cracks in a game release they never had a right to sell in the first place, that would the cherry on the top.