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Gog.com
Stands for “good old games”
They’re an online game store, kinda like Steam. But they have a focus on republishing old games
GOG also only sells DRM-free games. Which is another aspect of "good old games". Remember when you bought a game and then just owned it to install anywhere online or offline?
They're owned by CDProjektRed too (Witcher & Cyberpunk studio) so I like to encourage them when I can, which is rarer these days 🥹
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Well, old games used to have DRM. They'd include passwords or challenges in the game that required you to have access to the physical manual. It was a simple means of digital piracy prevention in the days before the internet was common.
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I'm old enough to remember the "look at your game manual and enter the 5th word in the 10th line on page 4!" protection! :D
But it was never ANY word, the game didn't have a file containing all of the manual. it was a selection of a handful, and the cracked versions would come with "these are the 10 possible prompt words".
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I liked it when the challenge question was actually something within the lore that you could only know if you had the manual.
I remember the old Sierra games would do that a lot.
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So do I! when there's something on steam I like, first thing I do is check if I can also get it on gog. if that's possible, I avoid getting it on steam.
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Same. Unfortunately the GOG client is less stable than Steam, so I sometimes get a game on Steam if I think it's gonna be a technical beast. (BG3 is the latest example for me.)
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and modding on GOG is an absolute nightmare. It's possible to include mods, but it gives you the runaround. On steam, it's workshop, click, done. (which of course also means centrally censored mods, on the other hand)
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