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https://www.gog.com/news/introducing_gog_connect

Connect your Steam account and grow or jumpstart your GOG.com library.
Today, we're launching a new program called GOG Connect. The premise is simple: connect your Steam account and add your eligible games to your GOG.com library.

Whether you're checking us out for the first time or have been with us for a while, GOG Connect gets you DRM-free versions of your games, digital extras, and a whole lot of freedom of choice (like whether you go with the GOG Galaxy client or not). It gets you our take on game ownership, and we say: why buy the games more than once?

Thanks to our awesome partners including Deep Silver, Harebrained Schemes, Jonathan Blow's Number None, TaleWorlds and more, you can now add more than 20 games to your GOG.com library if you previously purchased them on Steam.

The full list of games will always be available on connect.gog.com, starting with these and more:

- The Witness
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
- Galactic Civilizations 3
- Trine Enchanted Edition
- Saints Row 2
- Shadowrun Returns
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

While GOG Connect will stick around, the available games will come and go.

These are limited-time offers made possible by participating developers and publishers, so stay tuned as we bring new titles onboard in the future (and grab your copies before they go away)!

For a bit more library-building, a bunch of our favorite titles will also be discounted up to -85% all week long, including The Witness, Saints Row: The Third, System Shock 2 and more. You can check out all the deals here. The sale will last until June 6, 12:59 PM UTC.
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Interesting.

GOG have some shady practices in the industry at the moment, as do Valve so meh.

Edit:

YOUR ACCOUNTS ARE BEING CONNECTED
Due to exceedingly high demand this may take up to several days, please check back later. Thank you for your patience.

The API used for this process supports a limited amount of calls on any given day. You may be placed in a queue before your accounts are connected.
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As far as the industry is concerned as a whole, a DEFINITE step in the right direction.

Valve need to do the same in reverse now.
 
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Also some older games can be better optimised for newer hardware on GOG. And sometimes they have some interesting addons for the games. Manuals, screensavers, concept art etc.
 
I don't think GOG have any shady practices. Certainly not that I've come across so perhaps you can elaborate?

I've just done the GOG connect - added 5 games straight away - fantastic thing for playing games offline with no DRM. Steam, even in offline mode, sometimes goes a bit pear shaped, so having the GOG games there helps.



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It doesn't care about if the game is installed or not - it just checks your steam library to see if you own the game.

If you do and it's in GOG (and one of the GOG link games) you can then either download an installer or use GOG galaxy to install it. If the current games in Steam use Steam Cloud then this won't download the saves, etc (unless they're currently locally on your PC).

They're also different versions of the game as GOG works on compatibility and getting older games to run where as Steam just gives you whatever the manufacturer has provided to them.



M.
 
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They're also different versions of the game as GOG works on compatibility and getting older games to run where as Steam just gives you whatever the manufacturer has provided to them.
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To be fair, since the rebranding, "Good Old Games" (GOG) are now a DRM Free etailer with less emphasis on older games.

They are a reseller and ship out whatever they are given.
 
They still update and maintain the older games. They still have to get them working on new platforms (i.e. windows 10) and considering most of there games are <£10 it's not a bad service at all.



M.
 
I've done it because I could. It is a good feature....I won;t be downloading any games through GOG unless I have to though. It has been very unreliable for me, especially with downloads.
 
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They still update and maintain the older games. They still have to get them working on new platforms (i.e. windows 10) and considering most of there games are <£10 it's not a bad service at all.

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Most of these Steam customers they are trying to poach, if they are not already with GOG, have no interest in the older games so only the newer games will be relevant to them.

Personally, I prefer DRM free titles nowadays although the forgotten art of "patching" a game does feel odd and for multiplayer games, Steamworks is the better Lobby/Matchmaking system the PC has seen.
 
You reckon people will abuse this system? I mean whats stopping someone with a big steam library say to themselves. Ok so if i make a gog account, link it up so the gog account is full of free games (from the limited choices tho) then say ok got a gog account with some games on ill never use so ill flog the account on ebay see if i make anything.

Would people do that or can they, or is there a system to prevent it? Linking just makes it really check ur steam library really i dont think ud get steam banned for putting games on gog from it and selling gog account with em?
 
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