Me : Alpha Protocol (GOG), That’s it ! I have bought just ONE game this calendar year.

I have about 560 GOG games, all backed up on external HDDs, since finding this godsend of a store back in 2012. That works out at roughly one game purchased per week. Based on my normal purchasing rate I would usually have purchased about 23 games in 2024 by now. At the moment, though, I have stopped buying games for various reasons. Off the top of my head the reasons are :

1. GOG’s releases this year have been underwhelming (imo).
2. Games I would like to buy from GOG (wish-listed) are not finished and look likely to remain “in dev / early access” forever, or to keep getting seemingly endless new DLCs. I want to buy FINISHED GAMES. I am absolutely sick to death of unending updates and endless DLC releases. Old World is my outstanding “wish-listed” culprit here. I refuse to buy it until it is actually finished. I am not interested in buying Stellaris, but if I were that would be an even more egregious example : they will just NEVER ACTUALLY FINISH THAT DAMN GAME, WILL THEY ? Absolutely sick of unfinished “releases” and never-ending updates and DLCs.
3. Storage space. My latest external HDDs are 5TB capacity and my entire library here already takes up about 3.8TB Which leads to my last reason :
4. Huge games with multiple versions, e.g. Cyberpunk 2077. If you want to back up ALL versions of this pretty enormous game (including Phantom Liberty), every time a new version is released it takes the best part of a waking day to download it and back it up. Plus, it eats into your dwindling storage space even further.

When I first joined GOG it was all nice and simple, not so much any more.

What about Robocop, Alpha Protocol, Tomb Raider Remastered, God of War 2018, Dark Forces Remastered, Boltgun in Dec '23

Rip GOG, tried so far and got so hard, but in the end, not matter

edit: I bought Tomb Raider Remastered and Just Cause 2.

Zero.

I'm marginally interested in Robocop, but I can't justify the price since it's a short game and since it doesn't have the real Basil Poledouris music.

I don't really care about Alpha Protocol, maybe because I've never heard of it until it was released on GOG.

Unlike many GOG customers, I don't see any merit in, and have no desire to, buy games solely & specifically because they are old.

The spyware-filled Sony games, I couldn't care less about, and plus they are woke on top of being infested with spyware, which is a double strike against them in my eyes.

Tomb Raider Remastered games are censored and therefore trash IMO, and the woke disclaimer is ultra cringe too, and plus they are way overpriced on top of all that.

Besides all that, I have a massive backlog of games, most of which I probably never have time to play, much less finish.

I don't care about most of GOG's new releases, since as with every year, the majority of GOG's releases are low quality indie games, and GOG still has a massive scarcity of high quality premium games.

And on the rare occasions when GOG does get a highly quality premium game, it's almost always old and stripped of features too, and/or gimped in other ways, like the Bethesda games that have a different version number on GOG and thus vastly decrease mod compatibility.

And then there are "new" releases like Darkest Dungeon 2 that have no Steam Workshop support on the GOG version and that will also probably be missing multiplayer DLC in the future on GOG, just like DD 1 is, so that's not really worth buying either.

I might buy some games on GOG this year if they release anything that is both compelling and also not gimped with missing features...but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.

If it doesn't, then I'm content to continue buying nothing this year.

Robocop and Tomb Raider Remastered are almost certain buys for me eventually, but Robocop is still receiving updates and, the last time I noticed, Tomb Raider Remastered had an update which removed some content for some reason ? I think they reversed the decision though ?

I bought Days Gone last year but while I welcome the Sony releases, I don’t much like third person perspective action games. I could never play Skyrim or the modern Fallouts in third person, it’s just not immersive.

Underwhelming releases plus this appalling trend of eternally unfinished games are my main reasons for not buying much recently.

I bought Tormented Souls since it was a pretty good discount and I was in the mood for that kind of game. Nothing else though. I'll probably buy one or two other things from my wishlist but I have more than enough games to play already, plus the new releases haven't really interested me much.

I bought 19 games this year, so far. At least one CD Projekt employee had a decent sandwich from my purchases. You're welcome, stranger.

85, if I counted right. I tried not to include free games and DLCs (at least if I bought the DLCs at the same time with the main game). Yesterday I e.g. bought Empires of the Undergrowth, and today I wishlisted Toy Tactics, and I seem to have 68 games in my wishlist.

I now have total 2625 GOG games (or that is what is said beside my account, the game list for some reason says 2624... WHERE IS MY MISSING GAME?!?). I disagree, but then I don't know what kind of games you want to appear on GOG. I kinda agree, but occasionally I still buy early access games or games that possibly are still getting DLCs, but overall I prefer buying "complete sets"... then again how can you tell for sure if some game is still getting extra content?

I have passed some games because they have so many costly DLCs that apparently you are not supposed to buy them all, but only the "interesting ones"... but then I have no idea which are the ones I'd like to buy. Meh, next. For instance, certain Paradox games like Europa Universalis IV and Stellaris. Buy a bigger hard drive, or divide your collection to several external hard drives.

I used to divide my GOG collection to two 5TB USB hard drives, but now I use one 18TB hard drive.

There is fluff that I need to get rid of at some point, like all the patches (don't need them as long as the main installer is up to date), but unfortunately I can't just blindly delete all files with the word "patch_" in them because there are some cases where the "patch" has extra content, ie. it is basically a DLC. So have to check case by case.

I bought 21 games, one of the games was rimworld anomaly dlc which i counted also to it as a game.
Some 2 games i bought at full price since one won't get discounted anymore and grindea was full priced only at 13.99
Rimworld dlc was also full priced.

I buy what i feel like and my budget per month is pretty much 25 eu for games most of the time.

about 20 games on GoG

mostly games i own on steam too and wanted to transfer mainly due to ease of offline usage. Xcom 2 for example and one of my favourites 40k DOW2, DA-O,PC-G.

I also went with GoW, Bulwark, Scars, Tainted Grail and Manor Lords

23 games on Steam

some DLC lot of discounted titles ( Nier Replicant, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, 2 older TW titles, refunded Milennia, some weird stuff such as Laysara:Summit Kingdom, The leviatihan's fantasy. So far the most noteworthy been AOW 4 and Ghost of Tsushima

After counting my pennies i concluded i've already ran through my yearly budget...

Damnit!!!

I dont think I have bought any games on gOg so far this year. Nor am I sure how many games I have bought in total this year either.

The last game i got was Star Stuff a couple of days ago, which is really adorrable and highely recommended.

The next game I am thinking of getting is SCHiM, which is being released in 10 days, the art of that game is just gorgous and it looks like a unique take on platformers

Bought 39 games so far: 19 were physical copies, the rest digital downloads, all on GOG (3 of the latter as gifts).
During the rest of the year, I'm planning to buy a handful of other second-hand games on CD-ROM (if I can find them at a decent price, which I think is likely for at least some of them), and another dozen or so games (including a few codes to give away) on GOG or other DRM-free stores, when they go on sale with a deep enough discount (some of them do it regularly, and are generally pretty cheap).
There's also a small number of titles that never seem to go on sale, or are always too expensive... I'm keeping an eye on those, too.

So far: three (3).

There aren't that many new games released anymore, that I have interest in - or old games, that I want to buy a second (or even a third) time.
DRM-free or not.
And those, that I am interested in, aren't necessarily available for a price, that I'm willing to pay.

And yet: GOG is (for quite some years now) the only shop where I buy new (old) games at all.
And I have no plans to change that.

I would be interested to know which CD/DVD games you’ve bought. Just before my old Windows 7 laptop died last April I bought an external optical drive and went a bit crazy buying physical games off EBay, although most of them were advertised as “new, sealed” rather than second-hand.

I got a lot of them working, too, but then my laptop died (: So now I still have the discs but Windows 11 (my new laptop) is another animal altogether and I haven’t yet mustered the energy to try to get them working again. So many great games from that era have just been forgotten because… SafeDisc etc. I own a copy of F1 Challenge 99-02 which I had working perfectly on my W7 laptop, but only because you could re-enable the SafeDisc driver on W7. You can’t do that on W11 unfortunately.

Actually, one of the posters on here - AB_2012 - helped immensely here. I had no idea that it was possible to find DRM-free retail copies of Age of Empires 1&2, Age of Mythology, Rise of Nations, Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory, C&C : The First Decade and others before I read his posts on the subject.
Pretty much my stance in all regards. I will only buy here because I want to *own* my games. Sadly, though, there isn’t much new stuff I’m interested in.

So you are here just because of the free beer .

6 games:
- Citizen Sleeper
- Gamedec
- Sovereign Syndicate
- Ixion
- Homeseek
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

1 expansion:
- Stellaris: The Machine Age

From that, the only one I already played more than a couple minutes is Gamedec. It is a really nice game, but I gave it up (to start again later) when I realized that what I thought was a difficulty choice when starting a new game was actually nothing but a restriction on saved games, preventing you to save and quit at any time.