I believe there is a segment of the gaming population who would buy a commercial copy but would be skeptical of downloading a free copy from a lesser known site. That's not a meant as a jab at SSP or its organizers. In fact, I downloaded SSP this afternoon. Never paid much attention to the forums until recently and didn't know SSP existed. Excited to play SS1. BTW, I categorize myself as a casual gamer. I enjoy games but only play them occasionally.

Playing them in casual intervals does not make you a casual gamer. Posting on GOG.com automatically makes you "hardcore" status.

If you only played Call of Duty/Madden/Grand Theft Auto/Flappy Bird/Minecraft/Angry Birds/Farmville/Just Dance/Guitar Hero/Candy Crush/Barbie's Horse Adventures, then you'd be a "filthy casual". At least, that's my take on it.

That's not Source, it's CryEngine 3 :)

Same thing is true for most games, either new or old. That's why I asked if I can legally buy it, not if I can find it somewhere.
If you cannot see that difference, then there's no use discussing it further. Why should GOG try to obtain any other game, since they can be downloaded and played out of the box.

And as for the link, you could find a better cause, since the GDF works under the assumption that it can either collect €4.5 billion to buy all the bonds at once, or that after it starts deleting the first bonds (€1 billion worth of them?), the bonds value will increase, so the projected €4.5 billion will be closer to €450 billion.

So if that's your "more worthy" cause, then I do believe that the enjoyment of a game (or two hours of voluntary work) are more worthy than donating to GDF.

Going by your logic no one would ever buy a game. There are always "more worthy causes" than games. Let's just pirate everything then.

You forgot THI4F!

I was starting to wonder, but that of course would explain why these screenshots don‘t look like complete shit. Awesome work!

Well then, I'll claim the hardcore status. :-)

Yup, every game should be pirated and then we should donate the asking price to charity. In fact, why stop with games, download a movie/tv, donate to charity as well. End poverty now!!! :)

Considering the sorta hostile response by the SSP creator, I'd prefer if gog simply released the vanilla version of Shock 1, without any additional fan mods. I really don't want this to turn into another Re-Volt.

For me System Shock would be an instant buy if it was released on GOG. ^_^

I hope both the CD Version and Floppy become available. ^_^

Why? The only "advantage" with the floppy version I can think of is that a couple of ingame errors which IIRC can give you unlimited health and/or energy don't work on the CD-ROM version. Ie. those faults were fixed in the CD version.

Good point. I wasn't thinking about the Floppy version having errors that the CD-Rom didn't. >_<

Judging by what I've read the CD-ROM version is drastically superior... and is also the version the developers meant to release:
- Quote Wikipedia Perhaps it would be better to only have the CD-ROM? >_>
(Part of me still wants the Floppy just out of curiosity though...)

I think you can get a taste of the floppy version by running the game in 320x200 resolution and turning off speech. Then it should be pretty much like the floppy version as far as I know (except for the unintended "free energy and health" tricks that apparently work only in the floppy version).

I must say though that it is quite distracting how the speech (audio logs) and the text don't usually match in the CD version. I think there is an user mod that changes the text messages to the same that what the audio speech is.

It is as if you are trying to read some text while someone is at the same time reading the text to you out loud, but using different words and sentences. You don't know if you should concentrate on what you are reading, or what you are hearing. At least I have a problem trying to understand both at the same time, and apparently some others too, hence the user mod to change the text parts. Too bad the original text parts are usually more detailed and verbose.

One reason I could think of why the floppy version would be a nice addition would be that it has a rocking midi version of the intro theme that isn't in the CD-version AFAIK.
(This is how the intro music sounds like in the CD version)

Good point, I didn't know (or remember) there was a MIDI version of the intro music. Rest of the music of course, as the CD version uses General MIDI music as well (apart from the intro and outro).

EDIT:

This seems to be the MIDI version of the intro music (with Roland Sound Canvas/SCC-1):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iopv2Jpjz7k

And this is the CD-ROM version intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID2BEXJ4IKc