"Good Old Games"

Matt_Bowyer · 2011-09-26T14:32:32.000Z

1111! I will celebrate by purchasing this Drag Ons Hard racing game.

Demorve · 2011-09-26T14:49:53.000Z

Dammit I’m still middle age with 1089

nKoan · 2011-09-26T14:50:44.000Z

1111! I feel old school.

rowe33 · 2011-09-26T15:05:01.000Z

1111 club!!

Rock8man · 2011-09-26T15:25:55.000Z

1111 here too. How come we all joined on the same day? I can’t remember anymore.

nKoan · 2011-09-26T15:29:14.000Z

Might be the original opening of the beta program. At least, that’s my guess and I’m sticking to it.

Edit:

1111 days is 3 years and 16 days. I Googled a news article about the open beta starting, the date of the article is Sept. 10th, 2008

Kotaku

Good Old Games Beta Launches

Several of you have written in this morning to let us know that the early start beta for CD Projekt's DRM-free classic PC game store Good Old Games (GOG.com) is now live, with one helpful reader sending us a screenshot of the games currently...

Marcin · 2011-09-26T15:29:16.000Z

Woo, 1111!

No idea. I’m guessing someone came in and posted about it starting up with enough enthusiasm to bring everyone over?

Spect · 2011-09-26T15:31:47.000Z

807 days? How did I miss almost a whole year?!?

Fugitive · 2011-09-26T15:56:49.000Z

1113 here, and I’m surprised there aren’t more of those since Sept. 8th was when the early access keys started going out, though it was distributed over several days.

Vesper · 2011-09-26T16:20:07.000Z

1111, also.

OrfBC · 2011-09-26T16:23:17.000Z

I, too, am “A gentleman who joined GOG.com 1111 days ago.”

Anyone know how GOG handles patches? I’m going to buy The Witcher 2 either there or on Steam once the big 2.0 update and 25% off sale hits on Thursday (it’s already 25% off on Steam, actually). I know it’s nicer to the developers to buy it from GOG, but Steam is just so convenient with patching and updates and reinstallations. I suspect GOG doesn’t handle patching very well if at all, since I’m sure every single one of their other games hasn’t needed one.

nKoan · 2011-09-26T16:32:53.000Z

I don’t know, but I’m guessing its done the old fashioned way (e.g. download it and run it yourself).

OrfBC · 2011-09-26T16:39:11.000Z

What is this, the stone age? Steam!

nKoan · 2011-09-26T16:40:45.000Z

This isn’t the latest patch, but here are relevant notes

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Official Website

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The offical website of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Your number one source for news, latest videos and screenshots from the upcoming RPG developed by CD PROJEKT RED!

For the GOG.com version of The Witcher 2, please use the patch available at the GOG.com website.
For the Steam Version of The Witcher 2, please use the Steam auto-patching system.
Please note that we are releasing several distinct versions of the patch.
Please follow the directions below to determine which one you need to install.

OrfBC · 2011-09-26T16:42:26.000Z

rhinohelix · 2011-09-26T16:48:43.000Z

Spect:

807 days? How did I miss almost a whole year?!?

This is me, too. When did it go live? I don’t think I was in beta but I was close to the start of the GOG revolution. At least, that is the story I have been telling my kids.

Equisilus · 2011-09-26T18:06:20.000Z

I was one of the earlier ones, I guess, at 1112. Didn’t make the 1113 point, but not one of the mass influx that was 1111. I didn’t start buying right away, though. After this weekend’s big purchase of the D&D games, this year has doubled the number of GoG games in my collection. I’d do a Woo! but I’m not sure that’s good that I’m adding to a backlog, and I was one of the holdouts to that whole digital distribution revolution.

Sebmojo · 2011-09-26T18:07:09.000Z

Syzygy:

GDQ is in a class of it’s own but I recall seeing ToEE brought up quite often in discussions of classic modules. Either way it was classic enough for WotC to do a “Return to…” series which is arguably the biggest shared experience module of the 3.0 (pre 3.5 era).

Also seems unfair to criticize ToEE’s design if you’re putting White Plume on a pedestal, which was a essentially series of unconnected novelty rooms, IIRC.

Oh, granted. They were all pretty nonsensical when you got down to it, but there’s nothing in ToEE that equated to FIGHTING A GIANT CRAB IN A BUBBLE BENEATH A BOILING LAKE, y’know?

But I probably came across as more combative than I intended, so apologies for that.

Here’s a nice link discussing some rankings (opinion, natch) for classic modules.

Warning · 2011-09-26T18:57:32.000Z

I am a ninja who joined GOG.com 1098 days ago.

rei · 2011-09-26T21:53:56.000Z

999 days here.