Took a little digging to find the How-It-Works page http://www.gog.com/support/website_help/downloads_and_games
I really want the Ultima pack. Is this site legit?
I really want the Ultima pack. Is this site legit?
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/19/2250218/DRM-Free-Ga...
That said it's a great service and I've started buying from them again. Many (most?) of their games are just dos executables wrapped around dosbox, but what's nice is they get the licenses and sell the games cheap. It's also nice that many of the games are cross-platform.
What annoys me most is that it worked. They got a ton of attention for it, and pretty much everyone just forgot about their poor behavior. And now they've grown to a point where they're impossible to avoid if you want to buy older games.
I don't harbor a grudge towards them anymore, but it does depress me that this kind of lying is so effective and consequence-free.
If I have to choose between Steam and GOG, and it is available on the both[1] I go with the latter and have not been disappointed.
[1] Generally yes in my case because I'm a crotchety old man who plays video games from before the dawn of time.