Hi there! I just felt like saying Hello, being a new member here, try out the forum, and mention that I had a very unpleasant experience lately with the Valve customer support being very much not customer-oriented, but focused on serving their own business interests (out of fear, the epic drama of humankind, haha). Thus, I feel more at home at a place where a better future is grabbed by the collar and dragged into the present.
Not that Valve is among the worst, they USED to be quite progressive, but lately they feel like just another corporation to me, and I am very sensitive to these things.

GOG's business strategy seems a lot more ... POLISHed, hahaha. (I love puns.)

Welcome aboard, GOG is a blast.

Welcome to GOG ;)

Welcome to GOG.

Oh, and good month by the way.

you will find that GOG is quite unsane
in a good way

Welcome. And hope that your experience here will be more pleasant than what happened you on steam :)

Welcome.

Enjoy your stay at gog.com. You will really love gog.com gog.com doesn't like selling the PC versions of video games with any type of Digital Rights Management (DRM) client copy protection software of any type. Well GoG Galaxy is supposed to get released sometime in 2014 but it will be a OPTIONAL CLIENT. Also gog.com has a 30 day money back guarantee if you purchase a video game from gog.com and it's broken and not even gog.com can fix the broken video game that you purchase gog.com will fully refund you your money back. It's one of the best things about gog.com.

Unlike VALVe which lets you get 1 video game refunded on your Steam account then after that VALVe does not let you do it any more unless VALVe decides to pull a video game from being sold on Steam.

Make your voice heard if you want 2K Games, Activision, Bethesda Softworks, Capcom, Deep Silver, Electronic Arts (EA), MicroSoft Studios, SQUARE-ENIX, Eidos Interactive, Take-Two, Ubisoft, and ZeniMax Media Inc. to release more of their new PC versions of video games 100% Digital Rights Management (DRM) free on the wishlist :).

Guess the whole Valve Support affair caused you to run out of Steam, huh?

*silence*

I'll get my coat.

Welcome to GOG, by the way.

Welcome to GOG pal!

Welcome to gog, I hope you enjoy your stay.

Thanks y'all! :-) That steaming pile of Valve actually more like makes smoke come out of my ears. And the client is in development for a decade now and it still feels like a beta version. Not something they can brag about, but it signals that doing things smoothly and properly does not have a high priority for them.
And the experience I had with customer support was of the magnitude of what Blizzard once did to make me put the final nail in the coffin of my WoW subscription.

Let's hope that GOG isn't just awesome because they haven't been corrupted by business as usual yet (like catering to the lowest common denominator). Not succumbing to that habit is more important than any details of how to conduct business. If the motivation remains pure, then any product of that will carry that purity.

explain "purity"

Always nice to see a new face. Welcome. =)

Valve customer support is just horrible. Once I traded a game for Max Payne 1, but the trader gave me a US key (while on Steam there's an italian version of Max Payne), so I contacted support to ask them to replace US version with italian one. No way, after three mails they didn't understand the problem. Even Origin support is pure gold compared to Valve one.

Funny, I thought GoG was in Cyprus? (That's what my credit card shows.)