GOG Announces Open Beta For New Game Distribution Platform

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 5, 2015 @10:15AM from the taking-advantage-of-valve's-stumble dept.

New submitter Donaithnen writes: Like many geeks, I'm against the idea of DRM in general and have championed GOG.com's DRM-free approach to selling games online. Yet like many geeks, I've also often succumbed to the temptation of Steam because of the convenience of tracking, installing, and playing my PC game purchases through the launcher (not to mention the compulsion of collecting achievements, and watching the total playtime for my favorite games (to my occasional dismay). Now, GOG has announced the open beta for GOG Galaxy, an entirely optional launcher to allow those who want (and only those who want) to have all the same features when playing GOG games.

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Re:What does GOG stand for? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-05 12:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Newsflash: Being a certain age does not magically cause all people to do things the way you would.
I'm probably older than you are, and I've bought plenty of old games from GOG. Because shockingly, paying six bucks to download a new legit copy of Sam & Max Hit The Road is - even for a lot of us old-timers - a more attractive option than digging through all your old crap in storage to find a CD-ROM that you may or may not still have.