Wow, GoG is a decade old - it's hard to believe. GoG has always had the image in my mind of a scrappy new startup competing against the big likes of Steam, Micr

Wow, GoG is a decade old - it's hard to believe. GoG has always had the image in my mind of a scrappy new startup competing against the big likes of Steam, Microsoft Store, Origin, etc. I was probably a bit too young for the crowd that it's games were initially aimed at. My earliest gaming memories stretch back to the N64 era, but really only start in earnest with the Xbox and I only really got into PC gaming in the mid-2000s. A of classics like the old Infinity Engine games (Baldur's gate, Planescape Torment), Stronghold Crusaders, Heroes of Might and Magic, and others were largely unknown to me until I bought them through GoG. Despite their age I thoroughly enjoyed many of these games, and experiencing playing these games gave me a better appreciation and enjoyment of more modern games that draw on these older titles. I think the tendency for the availability of games to quickly decay is one barrier that prevents video games from having the same prestige as a lot of other works of art, like film, books, or visual art. In movies or books it's not uncommon for works to become recognized for excellence and remain widely explored decades after their release. With video games, it's often becomes increasingly difficult to legally acquire old games and as time goes on eventually getting them to run in a modern machine becomes a challenge. It's great to see that GoG has created a market for old games and created an incentive to maintain the ability to easily play them on modern machines - CD Projekt's efforts go a long way of reducing the "media decay" of video games.