So after getting banned for "Talking about priacy" On steam when all I did was talk about emualtors once I'm thinking about saying Fuck Steam to hell for banning me and converting to GOG. I'll still be buying the games I can't here on Steam.
So as a question is GOG Better then steam.
A. Sales I mean steam sales are pretty damn freaking amazing but I'm wondering if there just as good as they are here?
B. Are the mods here a lot nicer and not a bunch of assholes like on Steam?
C. What does everyone in general think of GOG?

A. Regularly scheduled sales, plus (and you'll kick yourself for this) you just missed out on the HUGE year-end holiday sale.
B. The mods here are awesome, but part of that is because...
C. Everyone is here because we love it here. Not a lot of bitching going on, so the mods don't need to come down on us in the first place.

[EDIT] I should specify that when I say mods, I mean the GOG staff.

I edited my post too :)

a. Sales can be quite easy on the wallet here, but they have so many of them
b. the staff (the Blues) are a good bunch IMHO
c. I can't speak for everyone but to me GOG is "Digi-Distribution done right

B- That's really good to know I should check if there's an I ban you for post. Cause I missed doing that on steam before the mods decided "where a bunch of asses your banned for saying one bleeping word about emulators.
FYI why is emulating pirating? I'll never understand there's no other way to play old systems like the NES games without emulators unless you can pull old systems like the NES out of your ass.
C. That's great to hear!
D- Sorry I checked and searched Gog VS Steam and didn't pull up anything.
Just one more question do the games here have Linux support?
I was planning on switching to SteamOS or LInux and I'm not sure if the games here have Linux Support or not.

Sadly no, not yet.

Alright then I guess in that case I'll wait a while before going Linux. Well that's all I wanted to know So I'll just mark a solutio.

Be sure to add your vote here:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games

And perhaps raises your hand here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/linux_users_raise_your_hand_2014

Welcome :-)

In general the rules are:
No nude pics.
No swearing in thread titles; swearing in a thread is fine.
No links to torrenting sites.
No spam. We do not desire black magic baba yaga love help, nor do we need nikes.
No racism. Or any other -isms with the intent to inflict verbal harm. Basically, if it sounds like a string of profanity, it's probably not cool.

I think that's pretty much all of them. Also, you'll get warned long before you'll get banned. Unless you are a spambot or a serial offender, odds are you'll be fine. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a person who was not a spam bot banned. It's very, very rare.

And don't mind the whole low rep thing. Rep is just a squirrely nuthouse that some people take way too seriously. Forget it exists and everything will be a lot better.

Welcome to GOG, go play some games! :D

Just a quick word on this:

One of the key differences between GOG and Steam in this regard is that the GOG forums are exclusively modded by GOG's own staff, while Steam's are modded by volunteer mods on the one hand and devs/publishers for game-specific forums on the other.

The problems with devs/publishers moderating their own forums is clear. Most are fair about it, some are assholes and make a point of deleting any criticism of them.

SPUF/Steam Community is a shining example of why you should never, EVER use volunteer mods on a gaming forum. Being a (good) mod is a thankless task, and there are only two reasons why people would ever volunteer to do it at no cost:

(a) The person has a strong affinity to that topic, which is likely to motivate the mod to remove anything critical of that product or service, while being less critical of flamebait posts praising that particular topic.
(b) The person is on a power trip, which is likely to motivate him or her to remove or edit stuff at random as a show of that power.

I suspect this is the reason why GOG never uses volunteer mods - if we had them, we'd probably have idiots running around locking and deleting numerous threads about Steam deals and posts critical of GOG, and it wouldn't reflect well on GOG as a company.

And yet, this is one of the coolest threads here.

Now I ask gentle souls to up rep OP a little ; getting d-rep on his first day for that is really ugly.

That's good to know. So there's basically no rule against emulators just no Torrent sites. in my opinion torrenting is pirating whereas emulating ain't pirating there's a big diff. the diff is where the hell do I pop a GBA or NES out of my freaking ahole?
And I like warning systems cause I got banned on the spot and perma banned as well it pissed me off.
I deserved a warning for that not a Perma ban all I said was in this one post.
It was about THQ going bankrupt and I was basically saying "Don't feel bad about THQ going bankrupt just emulate the games you want to play."
That's all I flipping said and boom no warning system nothing banned.

And Personally I could care less about bad Rep thing. Not even sure why I got bad rap for posting a I ban you for fourm game personally I think I should of gotten amazing rep for that because I ban you for is the most amazing fourm game ever.
But I can care less.

Also I don't want to bump my post or anything so can someone keep this forum game going over here?
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/i_ban_you_for_fourm_game

Downloading commercial games, however, is piracy, no matter the platform it was released on, or the manner of downloading (which means, I suggest you don't post links to NES games if they're not public domain or freeware), linking to the emulators themselves is likely fine because they're not a copyrighted commercial work.

Discussing piracy and emulated games seems to be no problem whatsoever, just don't provide links or instructions on how to get them.

Of course, it's the blues that rule, but the above is my interpretation of what I've seen.

Well I mean how else are you going to play the games? If I could I would pay for them but technically there is no legal route
If they made PC downloads for there games I would fully understand and count it as pirating.
But the fact of the matter is. Is that there is no way to play these classic games. I wish there was but this is the sad truth if you enjoy classic gaming you're simply reduced to emulating just because you're a fan of classic gaming.
It's unfair to Classic Gamers and in my opinion everyone would be happier if classic games were ported there would be a market for it and a huge market at that. So everyone wins people who are stick of being reduced to this would get to play there fav games legally on the PC. And companies would make money by the truckload.