GOG.com is celebrating 6th birthday: different games up to 80% off each day!
For six years now, we’ve been building a library of great games of many genres, ages, and origins. One by one they were introduced to our catalog, publisher by publisher, developer by developer, series by series. We’ve started small, with just a couple dozen of games and a small crew of passionate gamers. Then we grew. Each year was exciting and brought excellent additions to our offer. This week, we’d like to go back to GOG.com history, taking you on a little trip down the memory lane. Each day we’ll be taking some of the games we’ve released in a given year of GOG’s existence, and offering them to you up to 80% off.
During the third year in business (September 2010 – August 2011) we decided to drop the “beta” notice from our main page. That’s when we pulled our little infamous publicity stunt, pretending to shut down the service. We apologize, of course, but we’ve learned the hard way to always be straightforward with our community. Coming out of beta, we’ve managed to bring the Dungeons & Dragons games to GOG.com, giving our catalog a truly monumental RPG facade. Planescape Torment remains a community favorite up to this day. Here’s an excerpt from a lengthy and enthusiastic review by Theexar:
The first words that come to my mind when I ask myself to describe Planescape: Torment are ‘originality’ and ‘uniqueness’. […] This game is not about saving the world. It’s not about killing the main villain. It’s about saving yourself. You don’t have a name. [….] You should be dead, yet you live – you cannot die. You are immortal but it feels more like you are cursed to live rather than being blessed with eternal life.[…]
Planescape Torment was a truly landmark addition to our offer. We didn’t stop there, though. The year 2010/2011 brought many more exciting titles including a highly anticipated DRM-free release of The Witcher and The Witcher 2 (the first premiere title on GOG.com!), Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (that we were able to update with the Alien Crossfire expansion later), or Dungeon Keeper 2. You can grab them – and many more – up to 80% off – from our 6th Birthday Promo page, today!
Today’s featured games will remain discounted until Thursday, September 11, at 9:59AM GMT, so don’t miss your chance! Come back tomorrow and continue the celebration, with a new set of memorable titles from yet another year with GOG.com! Finally, if you’re in the mood to reminisce, think about taking part in our GOG-Game Video Contest. Thanks for being with us!
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