GOG celebrates 10 years as an online PC gaming store. — AFP Relaxnews
Online PC gaming store GOG, formerly known as Good Old Games, is 10 years young and celebrating its past and future with a user-voted gift.
A three-day live vote held on GOG.com/10years puts a free gift decision in site visitors' hands.
Users of the atypical game distributor can vote for irreverent action game Shadow Warrior 2, slow-motion shooter Superhot, or mystery adventure Firewatch in a poll that runs until an Oct 4 giveaway takes place.
The community vote marks a celebration of GOG's last 10 years, the product of an older company – Polish developer and publisher CD Projekt – that started life in 1994 as a local retro gaming specialist.
Its self-confessed approach to software piracy was to drop copy protection and offer customers value they couldn't get elsewhere, a philosophy that has carried over to GOG.
As a result, members are able to play their purchased games without having to run them through conventional store clients.
In addition to fostering a reputation for community engagement and genuine enthusiasm, and preparing classic games for play on contemporary computer set-ups, GOG has benefited from CD Projekt's in-house games: a critically acclaimed fantasy adventure franchise The Witcher, its upcoming Gwent and Thronebreaker spin-offs, and well-hyped large scale project Cyberpunk 2077. The Witcher 3 launched with extra benefits for GOG users.
The giveaway vote is the latest in a series of free promotions, from the no-charge games scattered throughout GOG's store pages to the gratis GOG Connect programme that enables members to add selected games to their GOG library should they already own them on dominant PC gaming platform Steam.
Also coinciding with the 10th anniversary celebration is a site-wide sale running to Oct 7 and, with it, the introduction of three commemorative bundles whose top tiered package, Modern Classics, has drawn praise for selling the recent Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Battle Chasers: Nightwar and Shadow Tactics: Blades Of The Shogun for US$25 (RM104), less than the first game's lowest sale price to date.
In addition there is a new front page, a tweaked user review system, and an overhauled site search.
Along with the Oct 23 releases of card-game Gwent and the more story-oriented companion Thronebreaker, GOG anticipates a few near-future announcements regarding its optional client, GOG Galaxy, which manages game downloads, updates, and multiplayer. – AFP Relaxnews
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