<story><title>10 years of gog.com</title><url>https://www.gog.com/10years</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manfredo</author><text>Wow, GoG is a decade old - it&amp;#x27;s hard to believe. GoG has always had the image in my mind of a scrappy new startup competing against the big likes of Steam, Microsoft Store, Origin, etc. I was probably a bit too young for the crowd that it&amp;#x27;s games were initially aimed at. My earliest gaming memories stretch back to the N64 era, but really only start in earnest with the Xbox and I only really got into PC gaming in the mid-2000s. A of classics like the old Infinity Engine games (Baldur&amp;#x27;s gate, Planescape Torment), Stronghold Crusaders, Heroes of Might and Magic, and others were largely unknown to me until I bought them through GoG. Despite their age I thoroughly enjoyed many of these games, and experiencing playing these games gave me a better appreciation and enjoyment of more modern games that draw on these older titles.&lt;p&gt;I think the tendency for the availability of games to quickly decay is one barrier that prevents video games from having the same prestige as a lot of other works of art, like film, books, or visual art. In movies or books it&amp;#x27;s not uncommon for works to become recognized for excellence and remain widely explored decades after their release. With video games, it&amp;#x27;s often becomes increasingly difficult to legally acquire old games and as time goes on eventually getting them to run in a modern machine becomes a challenge. It&amp;#x27;s great to see that GoG has created a market for old games and created an incentive to maintain the ability to easily play them on modern machines - CD Projekt&amp;#x27;s efforts go a long way of reducing the &amp;quot;media decay&amp;quot; of video games.</text></comment>
<story><title>10 years of gog.com</title><url>https://www.gog.com/10years</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgespencer</author><text>Congratulations for ten great years!&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;ve never used it, Gog is a really nicely thought out experience from an ecom perspective. I&amp;#x27;m not wild about the app store they&amp;#x27;ve built, but it&amp;#x27;s worth creating an account and tooling around a little on the website. It&amp;#x27;s terrific.&lt;p&gt;Tonnes of the games from my childhood are on their platform. The only annoyance is having to boot into Windows for many of them. I know it&amp;#x27;s easier said than done, but it&amp;#x27;d be great if they could crack a way of wrapping a WINE-like emulator around each game so I can play on macOS.</text></comment>