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To expand this article from its current mini-stub status we'll obviously need reliable sources. Those wishing to edit the article could check [ "good old games" Google News] which links to a large number of relevant articles. Remember to pick reliable sources. Cynical ( talk) 18:10, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I was gonna say, you could put that the earliest forum post was of July 21st for the journalism beta. check out [1] for more info. posted by weclock - - I don't feel like signing in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.109.182.4 ( talk) 05:12, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Yesterday I put up the list of games currently available from the GoG site, since I'm in the beta and this information is not widely available but a couple of people have asked about it. It was taken down because the list was deemed as advertising, but is this really accurate when Wikipedia also has extensive lists of the games available from other services like Xbox Live Arcade, the PSN store etc? Schaedenfreud82 ( talk) 10:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Also since the beta is closed there MIGHT be something in the NDA about it and no one wants to break that 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 14:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I remember that way back around the time of the first press coverage GOG representatives claimed they have access to the games' source code. Later those claims were denied, and GOG officials stated on their own forum that they do not in fact have the source code in any form. It might be a interesting fact to add to the article. However, I can't seem to be able to find it in the news articles where I recall seeing it - looks like someone has removed any mention of this. Does anyone have a reliable source that still carries this information in unaltered form? -- The Fifth Horseman ( talk) 11:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
I want to expand this article, but what is there to talk about? Look to the Steam article for inspiration. Smurfy 23:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I deleted all the sources.
Yes.
It just didn't seem like we needed to cite sources for any of these things, because you can find proof for just about all of them by going to GOG's front page.
Also the page looked awful in the edit. You had to search around to find any text amongst the lines and lines of citing.
If (read: when) you add the sources back, don't just revert the edit. Most of the claims in this article could be cited by one simple link to GOG's front page or something. All of the sources before were six-month-old news articles and previews of GOG before it was open.
Smurfy 23:25, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
According to their website, GOG is defunct. The article should be updated.-- Azarien ( talk) 22:24, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Feels like there is little point to this article, and the game catalog part seems to border on advertisement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.250.215.127 ( talk) 17:24, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
83.227.152.68 ( talk) 11:25, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
The first paragraph of the Features section was recently changed to state: "[The games] are typically, but not always distributed without digital rights management.". The second paragraph of the same section contradicts this with: "Unlike some other services, the games do not use digital rights management." Of course there is some elbowroom on what is or is not considered DRM, but I think it should be at least clarified. The reasoning employed for the edit was that some games require CD keys which occasionally turned out to be invalid. My personal opinion on this is that this does not constitute DRM; the decisive factor should be whether copying, installation or execution is limited in any way for the buyer. Since CD keys are part of the digital product that is purchased, and can be backed up and copied normally alongside the program itself, there is no such limitation. Invalid keys being issued is a product defect that is resolved through customer support. -- 84.227.107.55 ( talk) 23:29, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
Recently, some significant changes of the gog pages were done, indicating that games are licensed only. Arguemntation up to now for GOG, and selling games, was that the installers are not connected to the account and could be used after the account is removed/lost or gog shuts down. Now, is tge license agreement linked now in the article (overall is this the current one?) prevent the usage of installers after loss of the account? I'm not sure... ALso, in the steam article, where games are clearly only licensed, it is spoken in several places still from buying... this should be synchronized for all articles of digital distributors. Maybe this topic in detail should be put to the Digital distribution article. Shaddim ( talk) 10:33, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
As being changed by Totie quite often, the date format should to him be dmy. He linked WP:DATERET, which states to keep one format and that one consitently. However, when I originally used the script to align ISO dates to the dmy format as given, one can clearly see that the {{ Use mdy dates}} template was dated June 2011, almost five years ago, there was set to be an alignment. The dates in the body were consistently mdy, with two minor exceptions, only the "Publishing agreements" section was heavily dmy-fied for some reason. Many citation dates were ISO (or ymd, if you like) but that is often forseeable, tough to be changed. So if you respect WP:DATERET, as Totie tells me to, we would have to keep mdy, not change to dmy. Another aspect could have been WP:DATETIES, but it outlines that articles with topics with strong national ties apply. This company is based in a European country, like a couple hundered thousand other companies as well, there is no strong national tie between the company and Cyprus (or Poland, see discussion above). Therefore, I please you, @ Totie:, to not edit it any further and let WP:DATRET actually have effect. Lordtobi ( ✉) 19:49, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
The paragraph that starts with "Until June 9, 2015, GOG.com sold 690,000 units of CD Projekt Red's game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt." is inaccurate as written. The sources that are linked to this claim do not say that 690,000 units of Witcher 3 were sold on GOG.com, only that there were that many copies activated. The number of activated copies would include not just direct sales on GOG.com, but also from all other non-Steam digital sellers and also likely retail sales as well, because non GOG.com sales include a redemption key to activate the game on GOG.com. Number3son ( talk) 02:46, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Lordtobi: I don't understand why you removed https links [2], [3], [4] when official site only uses https ( Two-Step Login & HTTPS Everywhere). Just because gog.com and www.gog.com still work (riderct to https version of website) or any other points? -- Wario-Man ( talk) 20:25, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
i visited their site today and it was a complete mess. last update was in december. have they gone out of business? 84.212.111.156 ( talk) 20:30, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
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To expand this article from its current mini-stub status we'll obviously need reliable sources. Those wishing to edit the article could check [ "good old games" Google News] which links to a large number of relevant articles. Remember to pick reliable sources. Cynical ( talk) 18:10, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I was gonna say, you could put that the earliest forum post was of July 21st for the journalism beta. check out [1] for more info. posted by weclock - - I don't feel like signing in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.109.182.4 ( talk) 05:12, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Yesterday I put up the list of games currently available from the GoG site, since I'm in the beta and this information is not widely available but a couple of people have asked about it. It was taken down because the list was deemed as advertising, but is this really accurate when Wikipedia also has extensive lists of the games available from other services like Xbox Live Arcade, the PSN store etc? Schaedenfreud82 ( talk) 10:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Also since the beta is closed there MIGHT be something in the NDA about it and no one wants to break that 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 14:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I remember that way back around the time of the first press coverage GOG representatives claimed they have access to the games' source code. Later those claims were denied, and GOG officials stated on their own forum that they do not in fact have the source code in any form. It might be a interesting fact to add to the article. However, I can't seem to be able to find it in the news articles where I recall seeing it - looks like someone has removed any mention of this. Does anyone have a reliable source that still carries this information in unaltered form? -- The Fifth Horseman ( talk) 11:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
I want to expand this article, but what is there to talk about? Look to the Steam article for inspiration. Smurfy 23:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I deleted all the sources.
Yes.
It just didn't seem like we needed to cite sources for any of these things, because you can find proof for just about all of them by going to GOG's front page.
Also the page looked awful in the edit. You had to search around to find any text amongst the lines and lines of citing.
If (read: when) you add the sources back, don't just revert the edit. Most of the claims in this article could be cited by one simple link to GOG's front page or something. All of the sources before were six-month-old news articles and previews of GOG before it was open.
Smurfy 23:25, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
According to their website, GOG is defunct. The article should be updated.-- Azarien ( talk) 22:24, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Feels like there is little point to this article, and the game catalog part seems to border on advertisement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.250.215.127 ( talk) 17:24, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
83.227.152.68 ( talk) 11:25, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
The first paragraph of the Features section was recently changed to state: "[The games] are typically, but not always distributed without digital rights management.". The second paragraph of the same section contradicts this with: "Unlike some other services, the games do not use digital rights management." Of course there is some elbowroom on what is or is not considered DRM, but I think it should be at least clarified. The reasoning employed for the edit was that some games require CD keys which occasionally turned out to be invalid. My personal opinion on this is that this does not constitute DRM; the decisive factor should be whether copying, installation or execution is limited in any way for the buyer. Since CD keys are part of the digital product that is purchased, and can be backed up and copied normally alongside the program itself, there is no such limitation. Invalid keys being issued is a product defect that is resolved through customer support. -- 84.227.107.55 ( talk) 23:29, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
Recently, some significant changes of the gog pages were done, indicating that games are licensed only. Arguemntation up to now for GOG, and selling games, was that the installers are not connected to the account and could be used after the account is removed/lost or gog shuts down. Now, is tge license agreement linked now in the article (overall is this the current one?) prevent the usage of installers after loss of the account? I'm not sure... ALso, in the steam article, where games are clearly only licensed, it is spoken in several places still from buying... this should be synchronized for all articles of digital distributors. Maybe this topic in detail should be put to the Digital distribution article. Shaddim ( talk) 10:33, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
As being changed by Totie quite often, the date format should to him be dmy. He linked WP:DATERET, which states to keep one format and that one consitently. However, when I originally used the script to align ISO dates to the dmy format as given, one can clearly see that the {{ Use mdy dates}} template was dated June 2011, almost five years ago, there was set to be an alignment. The dates in the body were consistently mdy, with two minor exceptions, only the "Publishing agreements" section was heavily dmy-fied for some reason. Many citation dates were ISO (or ymd, if you like) but that is often forseeable, tough to be changed. So if you respect WP:DATERET, as Totie tells me to, we would have to keep mdy, not change to dmy. Another aspect could have been WP:DATETIES, but it outlines that articles with topics with strong national ties apply. This company is based in a European country, like a couple hundered thousand other companies as well, there is no strong national tie between the company and Cyprus (or Poland, see discussion above). Therefore, I please you, @ Totie:, to not edit it any further and let WP:DATRET actually have effect. Lordtobi ( ✉) 19:49, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
The paragraph that starts with "Until June 9, 2015, GOG.com sold 690,000 units of CD Projekt Red's game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt." is inaccurate as written. The sources that are linked to this claim do not say that 690,000 units of Witcher 3 were sold on GOG.com, only that there were that many copies activated. The number of activated copies would include not just direct sales on GOG.com, but also from all other non-Steam digital sellers and also likely retail sales as well, because non GOG.com sales include a redemption key to activate the game on GOG.com. Number3son ( talk) 02:46, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Lordtobi: I don't understand why you removed https links [2], [3], [4] when official site only uses https ( Two-Step Login & HTTPS Everywhere). Just because gog.com and www.gog.com still work (riderct to https version of website) or any other points? -- Wario-Man ( talk) 20:25, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
i visited their site today and it was a complete mess. last update was in december. have they gone out of business? 84.212.111.156 ( talk) 20:30, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
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