![]() ![]() However, as a result, CD Projekt realized they had the ability to make their own games, and moved into games development. As their past work had been strictly on personal computers, the company accepted to try to port it, but the project fell through before it was completed. Due to this success, Interplay, the publisher of Baldur's Gate, asked CD Projekt if they could do a similar treatment to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, a console title released in 2001. Their first major success was with Baldur's Gate (1998) with which they had 18,000 units sold on its first day of release in Poland. They would then package the game with localized instruction manuals and other physical goodies, hoping that the added features would draw buyers away from pirated copies. They would obtain import rights from foreign publishers, and where possible, provide in-game localization for text and voice lines, typically through reverse engineering to decompile the game's code. ![]() ĬD Projekt was founded by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński in 1994 for the purposes to trying to bring legitimate sales of foreign game titles into Poland, knowing they would have no easy way to compete against pirated copies. Following the change of government, consumer perception of copyright in Poland remained largely the same, making it difficult for legitimate sellers of electronic media pirated and bootlegged versions were often sold in open markets right next to boxed copies of legitimate items, but for a fraction of the cost. History Launch of Good Old Games ĭuring communist government rule of Poland (the Polish People's Republic), copyright laws went largely unenforced, and copyright infringement was rampant across electronic media. GOG.com delivers DRM-free video games through its digital platform for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. ![]() z o.o., a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Warsaw, Poland. GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films. For users wanting to keep their environment lean, looking at the settings indicates that a future update to Galaxy will allow it to stop and start the other clients as needed so if you don’t mind the initial wait for games to load and update you’ll be covered too.English, German, French, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese To make the best use of Galaxy 2.0 at this stage you might want to have all of the respective clients running at the same time so that they remain updated otherwise you can be caught out and have to wait before you play but that it actually works is quite cool. The presentation ensures nothing looks out of place and icons are used throughout to indicate the source for games, data and achievements. ![]() The process to add them is quite painless and after a short wait for Galaxy to pull in that service’s details you’ll soon see the games added to the overall library. The Xbox Live integration is officially supported but there are already community created ones for Epic Games Store, PlayStation Network, Origin, Steam and UPlay. On installing the new client (which replaces the current version) you can jump into the settings menu and quickly add your other services. I finally got my chance to join the closed beta for the new GOG Galaxy client and my early impressions are that the GOG team are already delivering on that promise of creating the one gateway to all of your games libraries. ![]()
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