GOG Connect

[Gimpymoo]

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.

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.

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.

 

[Gimpymoo]

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.

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.

 

[Gimpymoo]

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.

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.