I took a glance at what people want. On the last page alone, seven people asked for Planescape Torment, which I would whole-heartedly agree with.

I got a copy off a friend, then discovered, to my horror, that the game doesn’t like hyperthreading. You have to do a TONNE of tampering to get it to work properly. Now, hopefully, they’ll get Planescape, then fix it up so it’ll work properly. At which point, I shall buy it, and revel in my happiness.

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You should.

I think everyone should’ve played Anachronox at least once, twice even as it can be a rather confusing game story-wise (but that’s not a bad thing, in this case) because there are so many elements to keep up with.

Overall though, it just had an absolutely brilliant sense of humour. I’ll never forget certain bits, like where I had to provide proof that a medieval-ish town on one planet was being stalked by a werewolf, and the whole Democratus thing (“They say everyone has a voice, my friend doesn’t!” [he points at his mute friend, who shakes his head sadly]), oh and who else remembers the NPC hobo complaining about being an NPC (“We are all just puppets in a play, the great writer gives us lines to speak and we can speak naught but the lines we are given! We have no minds of our own, we just dither back and forth from day to day, speakinig those selfsame lines!!”)?

Loved Anachronox.

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Dammit, now I want to play Anachronox again. Which I have to fit between Trials 2, Spore, WAR, The Force Unleashed… gah.

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If GoG.com manages to capture this ellusive title I’d be more than happy to pay its original retail price for it.

Great idea for a website I say!

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Car-boot sales are a somewhat random, but good place to pick up older games too. Got Sam & Max / Day of The Tentacle pack for 1 quid !!

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‘cept the driving games, obv. Nuts to driving games.

But the other stuff… I’d feel silly buying it again.

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GOG, by contrast, is merely a website. They don’t want on your PC. They don’t want to watch what you install and manage that for you/watch you’re not being naughty with it. They just want to sell DRM-free goodies from the classic era of PC gaming, before the money-men – oh, those faceless, soulless accountants and shareholder lapdogs – homogenised it into ‘product’ and bled out any last trace of creativity. I’ve bought two games from them so far, got another one free as well, and will DEFINITELY be back for more. I live in the UK so for about the price of a bottle of Magners in the pub I’m getting some of the greatest PC games ever made, mine to do with as I wish, with little bonuses lovingly gift-wrapped into the bargain.

THAT, trembling gaming devs and publishers, is how you foster loyalty and open wallets. Love games, love GAMERS.

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And BTW that means GOG is in even better position to succeed – CD-Project is already responsible for a series of boxed versions of old games (as far as I can see, the same titles as on GOG, though can’t be certain to what degree, no account…), sold here for roughly the same price as GOG games, which is MASSIVELY popular from what I see around. They already know this stuff, now it’s time for online version.

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I’d further love to see the results of this printed online, because this would be a great basis for future companies to work from. Projekt has it figured out, that sales are almost equally as big of a part the attitude of the salesman as they are of the product in question. The internet has changed things, and today the Everyman is far more aware of the company providing them games (along with their practices and ethics) than they were back in, say, the 16-bit era.

Of course, a salesperson needs to be amicable in order to sell a product well, and therein lies the problem. These days it’s becoming more and more prominent, the seller, that is. In fact, the more time progresses, the more the attitude of the seller is becoming as important as the product itself. Perhaps this isn’t as pronounced with consoles as it is with the PC, though. But I think that as consoles touch more upon the realm and capabilities of the home computer, this will become more the case there, too (ex: Sony’s downloadable media DRM system).

The problem, however, is that many a company these days both old and new might not actually be aware of their position as a salesperson, many within that company might’ve become comfortable with the distance between customer, product, and publisher that existed in the past, and they might find the present quite uncomfortable.

But that doesn’t mean that future companies can’t be helped, and that doesn’t mean that some of the younger companies haven’t already picked up on this themselves. These companies are salesmen, like door-to-door salesmen. They want to be respectful, they want to be helpful, and they want to be your friend. Because today, the experience one has with the provider of a product counts almost as much as the experience had with a product itself.

To put it simply, people always desire respect and now that those walls of the past have been broken down, they’re going to know whom exactly they should look to for it.

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Viva la revolution.

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