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This could be the case, or could not be. They shared a post on Reddit 19 hours ago from their official account, and I thought it might be nice to share that here, at least to spark some discussion.
They simply shared a post titled:
Shall we? π¦πΏ
With the following image:
Link to the Reddit post is here if you want to see what others are saying about it!
Maybe for certain Collector's Editions, but overall I don't need optical media when the games are DRM-free anyway.
Makes sense to me, actually.
It'd be an easy way to get and also store the DRM-free offline installer, in where you don't have to permanently allocate active storage to keep the installer around.
do it. I don't care about the practicality of it all I loved those big boxes. But they also need to have the big manuals inside also.
Some of those manuals were absolutely awesome. Like the one for the first Heavy Gear. or the old flight sim games. Or like the original release of Final Fantasy 7 on PC by Edios came with a brady's strategy guide. Heck bring back strategy guides too! I remember when World of Warcraft first came out I picked up the strategy guide with it cause it was full of WoW related Penny-Arcade comics in it and I was (heck still am) a massive fan of Penny-Arcade.
Did GOG ever end up meaningfully addressing that neonazi shit?
No. At least not to my satisfaction.
That's disappointing to hear.
Guess I'll continue to not use them any more.
No.
Because they don't feel sorry about it.
If they do a print to order thing, I could see it maybe working out as a cool side business. Or it could be a chance for them to go really harder into the vintage games market if they can get some publishers on board or get the rights to some older stuff. Doesn't seem like a winning market though on a mass market front, more just a form of advertising or a specialty service for physical collectors.
Print to order is the best way I was wondering why they "announced" this and then your comment made it click I bet that is how they do it.
Actually super cool I won't lie.
Itβs fun for nostalgia but my pc doesnβt have a disc drive, nor even the space for one. Depending on your internet connection downloading is faster than reading from a disc even. If they were to somehow re-release old collector edition boxes that would become tempting.
For what it's worth, an external disc drive is not very expensive and they are quite small.
I mean in a way this is exciting, sure.
In particular if they do this in a somewhat eco-friendly fashion, that is, it's just about the box and the manual and all that. No actual disc/thumbdrive/whatever. Granted GOG in particular would be in a position where they can do this due to their installers, but it'd still be absurd materials and logistics-wise, in particular old-style big box PC releases.
To add, I just recently finally got rid of the last of my old PC games boxes like DAoC or the ME games. I had already thrown out most older games such as Homeworld or Battle Isle years and years prior when I moved where I live right now.
Was it a kinda cool-looking collection in the living room? Yes. Did it take an absurd amount of space for no reason and it's not like I even had a disc drive in the past 20 or so years? Yes. I nowadays have a pretty large board games collection, and that needs the space the books and video games previously took. So I donated books to hospitals and jails and so on, and games I gave away, sold or in some cases just tossed. Fond memories, but not enough to justify the amount of physical space used for a physical medium I cannot even use.
Anyone know what was up with the Nazi symbolism they emailed purposefully? I would really want to support them but I need to know that it wasnt something terrible they did. Physical releases is definitely a plus as well.
They released a standard non-apology claiming it was part of their culture and that people just didn't understand. They also stated their German team raised issue with the email and that they just ignored it
The explanation which makes most sense to me - but which hasn't been confirmed by GOG - is that the newsletter person did a web search for "slavic emojis", for which the top hit is a horribly racist website masquerading as an emoji site, which lists all the used glyphs on the first line of the results. (There is no "Slavic" unicode block or anything similar, and the characters used are from Malaysian, Greek and Cameroon script blocks, so not something you'd easily assemble on your own, no matter what your intentions were.)
That site (or at least the users contributing its content) intended all the dog-whistling which was picked up on. However, with a default macOS font installed, the most objectionable "SS" (presented on that site as a single glyph) shows all curly and non-objectionable (5th 'character' in the screenshot). So with the newsletter person in a hurry and never scrolling down to the more obviously racist content (or using an AI-assisted interface?), the characters they saw didn't trigger any alarms. As GOG is perpetually understaffed plus it was a long-weekend, QA was nearly non-existent and communication fumbled.
This was their final apology and communication about it: https://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2026/06/c1cdf9fda39aaa5532ee375b38abb04376c7505d.png - so an apology about the newsletter, but nothing about the tone-deaf first followup from the new-on-the-job "community specialist" who was posting the heritage stuff on reddit and ineffectually trying to make sense of the rendering differences without any proper understanding of unicode characters and glyphs and thus muddying the waters further.
~thinks about cloth maps from Ultima games
~ heavy breathing
They used to make them out of cloth???
They were beautiful! (this one has extra annotations written on it by the player)
I would prefer them to focus on bringing more games to the Store. If people want CD everyone can print them by themself with the already DRM Free games.
I don't care about the disc, but I would happily pay 20 bucks to get a map and 80 page booklet for some games.
I donβt think we should create more waste in our world, so Iβm voting against it.
Iβd want GOG to focus more on Linux and on getting more games on their store.
Those would be collectibles, and as that more or less art pieces, so not really waste, unless you classify all art as waste which would be sad in my eyes.
Every time I read this fake ecological motivation I aks myself why people think we can save the planet without some plastic and paper in a little box of human art, instead of considering real problems like big industry procedures and food packaging. Priorities.
Much rather have them create read-only (or semi read only to import patches?) flash-storage USB sticks.
Who the hell has a built-in CD player or even a BD-player in this time and age?
I have an external USB-CD player but only so I can digitize the CDs I buy online.
I mean box art is kinda cool, but who even wants to use optical media? It's not the 2000s anymore.
Possible idea, memory stick? Faster transfer speeds. Downside is it would cost quite a bit extra. But then posting internationally is probably going to cost a fair bit too so for a collectors item it might not be too bad and makes it actually usable.
Optical media? Maybe not.
Custom flash drives? That would be gravy.
Ugh, I would love a portable/offline launcher/installer for my GoG game files.
I don't have the fancy boxes and art, but I've been taking all my offline installers and burning them on cds and dvds.
My little USB disc drive has been working overtime this year.
I'm hoping to get a desktop with cd storage framing the monitor like I used to have.
Practical? Not really. I just think it's neat.
It would be fucking awesome. I can totally see others doing this in the future but GOG is the perfect player for selling drm-free physical stuff at the moment. People who think "full digital is the inevitabile future everything" are just sad analysts watching their own garden, we already know PS5 selling datas were manipulated from Sony, people need physical like in any other art medium.
