Well, the last time I looked, gog.com was Polish.

How am I supposed to pre-order when I'm not even being given the choice to? Steam and Epic both got chances, game came to GOG after 1 month and we're already being treated as 2nd class citizens.

GOG have become careless, buying games here has become a sour experience. Missing content and lack of communication are just 2 good examples.

Well, that's the consequence of waiting for a DRM-free release, one that I am perfectly fine with. That's the very point of pre-order bonuses - enticing you into buying when it's not in your best interest, and that's precisely why I think that instead of demanding those bonuses, we should happily ignore them. It's just some worthless digitial items anyway. Pre-ordering digital games is complete nonsense, and fomo-generating digital items are a predatory, anti-consumer practice. Screw that noise.

Well i would replace the dragon with a pole dancer Gog-chan on the front page banner and add a full beer mug on both sides of the shield .

18? Haha. I've been following GOG since 2005. That's 21 years, yo!

GOG Patrons

"It's not a subscription, and it doesn't change how GOG works."

How can they say such blatant lies on that timeline?

A monthly payment is not a subscription?

Restricting voting of what gets to be preserved/prioritized doesn't change how GOG works?

Beyond those points, I found it somewhat comical how Ubisoft was mentioned as the first big publisher to support DRM-free gaming in 2009 given their track record of killing games in recent years.

Happy birthday, GOG! Thank you for all the DRM-free games that we can enjoy thanks to you.

Yeah, the timeline is interesting, but it is a little strange that apparently nothing happened around here between 2013 and 2017.

In my personal opinion controllers exist for PC purely for bad console ports that don't do M+K controls well. Or games that aren't technically console ports but were obviously designed with controllers primarily in mind and M+K secondarily and poorly implemented. But that is just my opinion.

I knew someone would make some sort of comment about it at some point. It was inevitable.

Yep, that's fair. The Lego games are a good example. But that's exactly the result of that "console-centric thinking" that annoys me.

Yes I agree with your point of view regarding pre orders in general. Unfortunately not everyone can ignore them and move on, especially when a said game is released recently on other platforms.

GOG has been on a streak lately with this sort of thing and it started to burn the last few bridges.

Finally grown up and still committed to DRM-free. Happy Birthday and stay true to your roots, GOG!

This is unfair. Although I agree that not having the option to pre-order a game on GOG the same way as on Steam is unfortunate, and even annoying, I struggle to see why this would be GOGs fault. The answer why there was no pre-order of Control Resonant at GOG probably lies with Remedy, not GOG. I doubt that Remedy reached out to GOG to allow pre-orders and GOG refused it.

A more probable explanation is that Control Resonant reached acceptable sale targets on Steam already, and the corpos at Remedy gave the green light for a GOG release.

Many publishers (especially the major ones) still treat GOG as a 2nd class store.

I think that GOG didn't even discuss the pre-order thing with Remedy, the person(s) doing the deal probably didn't even know the content existed.

Secondly, I think GOG has been preparing this for a while and instead of listing it as coming soon or pre-order, they "thought" it might make a bigger splash to release it as part of their anniversary celebration.

What else can I say? Good Job GOG, you really know how to throw a party, but the cake is rotten.

I wish GOG a happy and sucessful 18. anniversary and a bright future.
Don't try to imitate other stores, be GOG, the major provider of DRM-free games and offline installers.

By the way why does GOG remove still active promos from the main page whenever there is a big single sale like this one?

Currently these promos are still active but not shown.
https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20261018_simulation_promo
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Luckily there is user thread with an overview.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_list_of_active_promos

I don't follow. What do you mean "not everyone can"? Sure they can. Why not? And if they choose not too, well that's their problem.

If worthless, predatory digital items are so important to you, by all means, go and feed the addiction with DRM-ed, pre-ordered games elsewhere, reward the worst practices the gaming industry has to offer. But spare us the mental gymnastics of framing it like GOG is making you do this.