GOG.com Affiliate program.

[schild]

I'm thinking of setting up with gog.com as an affiliate when it launches. Just wondering if that's cool with everyone and if you'd be willing to purchase games that way. Given the community and how many games people here would buy if it works in every OS for $5-$10 a pop, I think maybe it could kill the need for a donation drive and maybe even buy me a grocery run. I don't want to throw up ads or anything, probably just something in the news box but I also know I never wanted any sort of advertisement on f13 again a while ago. But yea, feedback plz.

[Viin]

Do they offer free 2day shipping like amazon?  (That's a joke, I see it's a download thingy).

edit: I don't buy too many games, but I certainly wouldn't mind. Of course, depends on the integration.

[schild]

Do they offer free 2day shipping like amazon? 

Wat?

Dude, it's digital download, copyright free, modified games to work in vista and xp (both 32 and 64 for both). All classics.

[Yegolev]

Newsletter.  Yours.

[Tebonas]

I'll gladly give you part of what I burn away on games.

[Engels]

Anyone have any experience with gog? I like the idea of the site in principle, but I wonder how well it works in practice, and what sort of catalogue they have. Although Fallout2 features prominently on their beta homepage, I have to wonder how far back they can go and still make it Vista compatible. Fallout 1? DarkForces? 11th Hour?

[schild]

We don't know any of this yet. Gog.com has it's own thread anyway. At this point, I'm just banking on it not sucking.

[Trippy]

Do they offer free 2day shipping like amazon? 

Wat?

Dude, it's digital download, copyright free, modified games to work in vista and xp (both 32 and 64 for both). All classics.

If they were truly copyright-free there would be no need to buy them.

[tazelbain]

DRM free?

I would love a way to support Stardock-like publishers.

[schild]

I meant DRM free.

[Trippy]

I meant DRM free.

Well then given the people here only one person is going to need to buy it

[Yoru]

I'll totally do it. Provided their service and selection don't blow of course.

[Strazos]

I'd give it a look, sure.

[caladein]

I see no downside.  Go for it.

[Tebonas]

What are you implying about the people here Trippy? Personally I stopped pirating games when I had the disposable income to buy them. Just so that I get more good games. Planescape Torment should have taught us something. So are retarded people here that hate games? 

[tar]

I can't see anything on the site that says whether or not it'll be available internationally or US only. If it's international then sure.

[WayAbvPar]

Is there a list of available titles? I would definitely do this, especially if I could get MoM.

[Merusk]

Is there a list of available titles? I would definitely do this, especially if I could get MoM.

You're not going to be able to get MoM because Atari is a bunch of pricks.  Put on an eyepatch and get DOSbox.

[schild]

Why are the

No. It's an advertisement.

people afraid to say why?

Edit: I wouldn't have put it to a vote if I didn't want opinions :(

[Merusk]

There was no "No, I don't buy games online because I'm a luddite" option.   I dislike having to have an auth-app like Steam or EA's patcher to run my games.  Yes, I'm playing very little on the PC outside of MMOs these days because of it and I'm fine with that.

[Sky]

You won't find a more physical-media friendly luddite than me. But for the price and especially if they put in some time to make it work with modern OSes, fuggit. Sounds good. Of course, it seems like I already own most of the stuff I'd want, and old pcs to play it on :)

By DRM-free, you mean I can burn it to a DVD and install it in ten years after this gog.com site has gone out of business?

[schild]

By DRM-free, you mean I can burn it to a DVD and install it in ten years after this gog.com site has gone out of business?

That's their plan.

[Sky]

Sounds great. Wonder where the catch is, businesses never do good things. When do the corporate lawyers get involved to shut it down?

Also, howsabout SMAX, ffs. Sid is such a cocksucker.

[Merusk]

By DRM-free, you mean I can burn it to a DVD and install it in ten years after this gog.com site has gone out of business?

That's their plan.

I don't buy this for a second.  We'll see, I suppose, but I got burned on $20 worth of music since Music Match files are no longer supported (and hey I can't burn them because their authent. servers went offline before I'd found that out.)  Yeah, it's only $20 but it was an lesson in why DRM sucks and why I'm not buying anything that uses it ever again.

[Strazos]

GOG.com has zero DRM. Supposedly.

[lamaros]

Why are the

No. It's an advertisement.

people afraid to say why?

Edit: I wouldn't have put it to a vote if I didn't want opinions :(

Question: Would you buy games through an affiliate program?

I read this as "if we affiliate with someone will you buy games through them". So I said no. Because my response is "buy games from some place just because they have an affiliation with here? Uh. No. What if it's shit, or over priced. Or bad service."

When it comes down to the details of Gog.com then it's not the same question in my head. It's more like "if you were to buy games from Gog.com, would you buy them through f.13 affiliation to help the site?" Which is a different question for me.

To which I would say yes. If I wanted anything from there for some reason I would use an affiliation if it was setup. But I'm not going to pick Gog.com over another better service because of it (if one exists), and I'm not going to buy stuff I wouldn't want to buy already.

Hope that explains why I chose the third option there for you schild.

[schild]

Yes, it does.

And yes, I'm hoping gog.com doesn't turn out to be crap. Hope beyond hope.

[Yegolev]

My understanding of "affiliate" was that you could go through F13 to buy GOG games.  My wife buys a lot of shit from Amazon and my web site yegolev.com is an Amazon affliliate, meaning that when she goes to yegolev.com and clicks on the Amazon button on her way to place an order for the next batch of yaoi manga, I get a slice of that.  Since we are going to be sending cash to Amazon anyway, there is absolutely no downside for us.  In theory*, I'll be buying shit from GOG, so having a web-layover at F13 isn't a problem.  Hell, I'm here all the time anyway.

* The theory holds that GOG will offer games I want for a sane price, plus I will be able to burn them to optical disc for later use.  I'll be fine with the first bit.  The second bit sounds too good to be true.

[Azazel]

Assuming this:

* The theory holds that GOG will offer games I want for a sane price, plus I will be able to burn them to optical disc for later use.  I'll be fine with the first bit.  The second bit sounds too good to be true.

Then sure. If they have shit I want anyway. And if they deal with unAmericans.

[Prospero]

If they get decent games, I will buy tons.

[Brogarn]

Seems a good fit for your board's population, so I say go for it. Plus, you're just providing a link, correct? I fail to see how this plan would hurt at all and it's not exactly selling out. Selling out is Click here to skip this ad and continue to f13 "Awesome Pictures Thread."   

[Bunk]

Works for me. I've gladly supported D2D. If the system is reliable, why not.

[Jade Falcon]

Seems like a good fit for the folks that bum around here.If anything caught my eye I'd grab it through here.Probably after reading a few reports from those of you that grab things first in case there's some hidden annoying factor involved tho.

[Stormwaltz]

I'll be buying from GOG regardless. Why not help F13 at the same time?

[Prospero]

GOG is having an open beta now. If you sign up before the 8th, you're in. Just head to their site and you'll see the sign up.