Since the media doesn’t seem to cover this sort of thing I guess it’s up to GoG’s “competitors” to do it for them: GoG has upgraded their network infrastructure resulting in crazy fast downloads. We got 22MB/sec (yes, we buy games from them too, we’re gamers after all) download speeds from them.
It’s one of the little things in digital distribution that no one covers. The download speed differences between them can be pretty significant which can make the difference between a new game taking an hour to download versus 8 hours to download. It’s one of the reasons why people online (anecdotal) regularly say that they’ll buy things off of Impulse if they have the choice because of its fast download speeds. GoG has really great download speeds too.
I don’t work for GoG nor have any official relationship to them. I just like what they’re doing.
You may want to actually say "Good Old Games" for people who aren't aware.
That's why we love you Frogboy.
And yes, GoG has some great offers.
GOG is pretty sweet.
Impulse and GoG are my favorite distribution platforms so far. I like Steam as well, mostly for the selection and the better sales. I just bought the entire X-Com series for $2 this weekend. Definitely a "I was at the register and the candybar said "buy me"" type of impulse buy.
I think this is where the real long-term money is for gaming. Games will get an initial surge of revenue on release, and again with expansion packs or significant content additions. But when the consumer says "eh, it's 2 bucks...why not?" you can't go wrong.
Wow, 22mb download? Per minute?
He said MB as in Byte and sec as in Second
As in far too fast for silly games, thats a porn connection.
Way to go GoG. They've done a great job bringing back some classics.
Now if they could only get Homeworld 2 on there...
Yes. GoG is great. Especially because they have FreeSpace 2. Every time you go to GoG and don't buy FreeSpace 2 a kitten dies. Do you really want to kill kittens?
Yes, but I have problems.
Jesus christ! 22mb/s? You could download Wikipedia in two hours!
As in multiple HD streams going to three monitors at once.
Hmm, guess I'll do download Duke Nukem 3D in 2 seconds. Maybe 3 if you want the expansion too.
I can't stand looking at that site for too long though; I get nostalgabombed way too hard.
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