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GOG.com - Polish company puts saran wrap over the toilet bowl, yells "PUNK'D"
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notworksafe
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It said the service was shutting down. Sounds like it to me. Not that I care too much, I suppose. I got most of the games I wanted from them before all of this.water_wendi said:
VibratingDonkey
Member
What?
It emphasizes the fact that DRM-free is awesome, sure. But one of the things I like about these services, and what makes me pay for them, is that I always have access to a copy 'in the cloud' of all the games I've bought. That, at least for me, is part of their value proposition. And judging by all the people who mentioned buying stuff only to download it much later, I'm not the only one who relies on that part of their service. Sure they said they would provide someway to get our stuff out in a week when they announced the fake closing, but they still pulled an integral part of their service offline to get some press.mantidor said:
notworksafe
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Yeah, I guess I'll download all the games I got from them now. I hadn't done it before because I'd assumed they'd always be around somewhere. Now I know to at least keep a backup.Snow said:
And I should have known that before this too.
Anerythristic
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If they have Baldurs Gate that also means they have the rights to BG2? Or would I be mistaken.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Holy shit Baldur's Gate is exciting. I wonder what other big hitters are coming. Tomb Raider 1-5 would be to die for as would System Shock 2/Thief.
Terrible decision, PR-wise. There are bound to be people who think the site is closed for good and moved on to another site, or other people who have just now heard about it and that fleeting impression is that it's closing or closed. I wonder if the expanded coverage will bring in more potential customers than it turned away.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
That would actually be hilarious and a great story to tell at parties. :lol :lolShogun said:
charlequin
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firehawk12 said:
I'm sure the companies Microsoft and Sony won't go anywhere, but what on Earth makes you think they'll keep supporting the downloads and services they're supporting now? I don't think it's a stretch at all to imagine the current version of XBLA being shut down forever, and unlike GOG that would mean no more playing your XBLA games.
duckroll said:
Not quite the same thing, but White Wolf pulled a very similar stunt for about a week in like 2002 or something, which generated a ton of heat but not much light (in terms of people actually quitting being customers.) It doesn't surprise me particularly that the people at CD Projekt have the same arrested sense of "humor."
MomoPufflet
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GOG.com said:
now on site
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Ogs said:
Ironically it's cheaper for me just to get the discs. Then again with them I have a chance it's going to work in Win 7 64bit and no install time.
I hope they'll have 2 up also, since it makes using some of the mods impossible IIRC.
JasoNsider
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Fuck you, GOG. Seriously. As a supporter since launch and a fan of their web technologies I gotta say this was the most tasteless way to handle this.
I'm done with these clowns. Not supporting this type of shenanigans at all.
I'm done with these clowns. Not supporting this type of shenanigans at all.
Minsc
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notworksafe said:
As inconceivable as it sounds, I think their dumb point was if another service were to go down, you'd be SoL, however all your GoG games continued to work.
The PROBLEM is, another service would definitely not just drop out of the sky like GoG did, they'd tell their userbase like a normal company... look we're selling/closing our doors in a few weeks and stuff is going to change. At least, I'd think that's how a normal company would handle it.
GoG chose the most stupid way possible to make this point, but at the end of the day, hopefully they continue to acquire DRM-free unreleased old games, and this never happens again.
Glad I wasn't able to get Shadow Magic from Impulse, I'd much rather have it from GoG, and soon it looks like I will. Now for them announce releasing BG2, IWD, IWD2, and Planescape Torment, and all the rest of the great games they can get their hands on.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
The discs already work in Win 7 64-bit. The install is still a bitch though, ill give you that :lolManos: The Hans of Fate said:
LocoMrPollock
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Stupid or not, good or bad, they had most of the interwebs talking about them for 3 days.
charlequin
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Shogun said:
I know some people who got wiped out from top to bottom by the whole Madoff thing. I think any of them would've been happy in retrospect if it'd been a prank instead. :lol
MattyGrovesOrMe
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GOG's current front page, with an apology "from the bottom of our hearts," for what its worth.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Do you think you will be able to play your 360 Live Arcade games on the next console?firehawk12 said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Naive, I know.charlequin said:
water_wendi said:
The first sentence of my quote says that I don't expect that to be the case. I'm just assuming that I'll either be able to still use my Xbox 360/PS3 and the old servers will still be up or that MS and Sony will be smart and offer some kind of reimbursement for spending hundreds/thousands of dollars on their services.
notworksafe said:
Doesn't that underscore a major selling point for GOG over Steam, Impulse, etc. though?
GOG lets you download the full installable of the game and store it however you see fit. On a disc drive, flash, burn it to disc, whatever. If you take literally 5 minutes or less after completing the initial download of a new GOG purchase you can have it backed up permanently.
To this point I believe they're the only digital distro games platform that offers that feature.
Sounds like a joke that didn't go over well, nothing more. It would've been a damn shame if GOG really did go under. I look forward to the servers coming back up, at which time I'll be dropping more dollars on more great old games.
notworksafe
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Polk said:
Granted, they did say the idea wasn't gone. But a statement like this doesn't say to me "We'll be back in a couple of days with a redesigned site".
Steam lets you backup your games and gives you the related CD keys for the games as well.Drek said:
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
You forgot the four sentences before that that say Gog is going away "in its current form."notworksafe said:
Hari Seldon
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I forgive you GOG! I forgive you! Thank god you are not dead!
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=408132
here's the new thread for the relaunch info. i'll close this one if people keep replying to both.
here's the new thread for the relaunch info. i'll close this one if people keep replying to both.
notworksafe
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But what does that mean? Will they be selling Good Old Icecream? Or Grumpy Old Grannies? Saying things like "going away" and "shutting down" is a bad PR call, no matter what. I love that people can defend it, however.water_wendi said:
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
If you thought they were going to start selling ice-cream that explains a lot :lolnotworksafe said:
... still, though. Why play around with it like that? You're a business, with paying customers, some who have invested hundreds of dollars in the products on your site. Shutting down, unexpectedly, with no clear indication of what's happening, for an entire week: it's shitty. Period.water_wendi said:
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