GOG.com or Good Old Games, the new games-on-demand platform offering all-time PC classics, is turning a new leaf, entering a new chapter, going where no site has gone before, doing… something newsworthy.
Starting Monday, September 8, the closed beta for the website is coming to an end and the Early Access Beta will begin. Anyone who signed up for an account will receive an access key during the next week, which will give them access to the "ever-growing" catalogue of classic titles.
A closed beta was planned for August, but evidently the reaction has been so great from everyone they decided to open the gates to all y'all:
“We want to reward everyone who showed us support, and thus decided to give everyone access to the beta site. Of course this meant we had to add all sorts of finishing touches to the site and test the new payment system, which caused a small delay. We used that extra time well and now we can provide players with the best GOG.com experience possible… until, you know, we make it even better,” said Adam Oldakowski, Managing Director of GOG.com.
The beta stage will allow users to purchase DRM-free games, and will retain all the main features of the website. The no DRM thing is particularly interesting, as potentially this could prove GOG the source of choice for preserving PC titles.
There's not a ton at the site, right now, but naturally, it will grow:
“We have prepared about 30 acclaimed titles from Interplay and Codemasters at this stage, but we'll add more every week. Aside from buying games, all users will be able to join the community, add comments, write reviews and download additional materials for the games they bought. It’s a beta that works just like the final site will,” said Oldakowski.
Also for early adopters, buying a game during the beta period will net you a bonus code for a free Interplay game. If you haven't signed up yet, worry not:
Aww, poor little gamer didn’t sign up for info at GOG.com? Don’t cry, little buddy – the GOG.com Team is accepting new signups till Sunday, September 7, at Midnight (EDT). Anyone dying to get into the action should visit www.gog.com to sign up, and they’ll soon be on their way to gaming like it's 1995.
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