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Fuck, this is a sad day for me and all retro fans. Hopefully there will be some sort of replacement.
hehe what's the game you didn't have time to download? tell us her nameElectricThunder said:This is just unreal....people were mid-forum post...mid-download...hell even mid-purchase then ZAP!
I am absolutely livid...utterly damned livid. Never, NEVER could I have imagined such a sudden a turn of events as this. Hell, even logistics wise, how in the world would it have not been a better idea to do a fire sale type thing beforehand or at least a good chunk of time for everybody to hammer back on their downloads before the cutoff?!
This this...this.....AGGH
Bebpo said:This sucks for them.
It also sucks for me because I have a decent size amount of games owned on their site. Even if they put up the site for a week, it's gonna be tough to download all these games within the time frame (not to mention the servers will be hammered so everything will be slooooooooooow). Plus all the hard drive space it's going to eat up having them around.
At the end of the day this reinforces my belief that no matter how sweet the deals are, you should never buy any PC DD unless it's on Steam.
Joseph Merrick said:no, there are a bunch of small 'new owner' publishers for a lot of the old ips on there.
Well, if any new DD service or large influx of games to a current one happens in the next week or two, we can have a clue of what happened.Zaraki_Kenpachi said:Maybe, but why would you pull instantaneously instead of waiting for final sales? Just seems really weird the abruptness of all of this.
Yea because you and a million other people were buying from them regularly, right?balladofwindfishes said:The gaming industry keeps reinforcing every day to me that they hate money
it's not that bad. I've got 300 games on there. the installers are only 191gigsBebpo said:This sucks for them. It also sucks for me because I have a decent size amount of games owned on their site. Even if they put up the site for a week, it's gonna be tough to download all these games within the time frame (not to mention the servers will be hammered so everything will be slooooooooooow). Plus all the hard drive space it's going to eat up having them around. At the end of the day this reinforces my belief that no matter how sweet the deals are, you should never buy any PC DD unless it's on Steam.
hehe even with backups if those are newer games they're going to be completely worthless still without a decrypter for the archive files. a lot of the older games you can just apply good old cd cracks on top of the exe files though. but yeah I've got all my online purchases backed up to hdd, it's the only wayBanzaiaap said:Fucking hell.. Now that I think of it.. Since this news comes very suddenly (for me at least), wouldn't it be wise to backup EVERYTHING I ever bought online? What is my Steam library of 100+ games suddenly is gone one day. Damn, even thinking about it makes me sad.. D:
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:Maybe, but why would you pull instantaneously instead of waiting for final sales?
androvsky said:Seems unlikely they all pulled out at once
lowlylowlycook said:GoG is gone.
GFWL lives.
Still believe in God?
Neoseeker.com: Okay, so first, how did you pull this one off? Codemasters, Ubisoft...these were quite big, rather unexpected deals. But Activision are surely the last frontier, really -- the last publisher anyone expected to sign on. They're known for charging more on PC games, using DRM, and going the very corporate approach in general. What happened? How long have you been trying to get this deal going? What was Activision's first response? Did you have to get after them after first proposing the signing?
CD Projekt: It wasn't easy, but no one said it [would] be. It took us more than a year to finalize the deal with Activision. We [had] first approached Vivendi; it was just before their fusion with Activision, so the timing wasn't exactly perfect for us. We presented them our offer and the whole concept of the service, which appealed to them, especially in the case of Sierra titles. Then after the merge we started talking to Activision about possible cooperation and [though] they liked the concept of selling older titles via digital distribution, there was still the DRM issue. That's the problem we come across many times while discussing with publishers. Thanks to our inborn charm and good arguments we've managed to convince Activision that selling DRM-free games is a good point, not a flaw.
Signing new deals always takes a lot of time, but if we're talking about Activision, one of the biggest publishers in the world, it's taking even more time and work. We're sure it was worth working so hard to finally offer such great classics to our customers. We're really happy about this deal and we can assure you it's just the beginning.
There's no indication that them closing was for financial reasons.vazel said:Yea because you and a million other people were buying from them regularly, right?
your gamersgate games are completely safe for the future if you download the installers and unhook them from the gamersgate downloader do itErasus said:How did this happen? And so sudden!? This is making me real scared about all my Direct2Drive, Gamersgate and STEAM games...
quite a few games had dotemu emulators. oh and dotemu games can still be got from dotemu.com they've even added some unique to dotemu games recently like moto racerballadofwindfishes said:It also seems like many of the emulation was done in-house, meaning there was little financial burden from the original publishers.
Twig said:stop talking about steamworks
it never ends well in threads about other dd services
Syril said:Son of a bitch. They were probably the closest ones to ever re-releasing Quest for Glory.
Joseph Merrick said:hehe what's the game you didn't have time to download? tell us her name
There were defently at least 10k+ sales a day. Plus, just killing the site within seconds without saying "We are sorry, we are shutting down our service within 15 minutes. LAST CALL!" sort of left a ton of money on the table that could of been had in a fire sale type thing.vazel said:Yea because you and a million other people were buying from them regularly, right?
How do you know that? That would be ridiculously good for such a small selection. That would even be decent for PSN.Drkirby said:There were defently at least 10k+ sales a day. Plus, just killing the site within seconds without saying "We are sorry, we are shutting down our service within 15 minutes. LAST CALL!" sort of left a ton of money on the table that could of been had in a fire sale type thing.
vazel said:Haha at the people worrying about their Steam games. Because a small site like gog.com is indicative that the biggest digital distribution site for games may shut down. For Pete's sake you could even see all of gog.com's available games listed on one page.
hehe. my stupid shelf was getting too big and annoying, stopped keeping it ordered quite a while agoElectricThunder said:huh? what in the world does that have to do with anything out from nowhere?
I'd take a pic of my virtual shelf with Win 7's little Snag thing but...well...
I'd imagine any new owners wouldn't want to piss off the established customer base with radical changes. Steam's loyal customer base would be a big reason why anyone would want to buy Steam.Minsc said:Steam's not safe forever. Gabe is mortal, and money corrupts, even if Gabe is immune to selling, doesn't mean the next in line won't want a 100M+ or whatever it's worth.
Steam going public and undergoing huge policy changes, or possibly a monthly subscription fee would certainly upset a good number of people just as much or more than it ending.
vazel said:I'd imagine any new owners wouldn't want to piss off the established customer base with radical changes. Steam's loyal customer base would be a big reason why anyone would want to buy Steam.
Minsc said:Steam's not safe forever. Gabe is mortal, and money corrupts, even if Gabe is immune to selling, doesn't mean the next in line won't want a 100M+ or whatever it's worth.
Steam going public and undergoing huge policy changes, or possibly a monthly subscription fee would certainly upset a good number of people just as much or more than it ending.
And this is why I keep telling my friends and GAF, that digital distribution is a teriible idea.Banzaiaap said:Fucking hell.. Now that I think of it.. Since this news comes very suddenly (for me at least), wouldn't it be wise to backup EVERYTHING I ever bought online?
What is my Steam library of 100+ games suddenly is gone one day. Damn, even thinking about it makes me sad.. D:
vazel said:Haha at the people worrying about their Steam games. Because a small site like gog.com is indicative that the biggest digital distribution site for games may shut down. For Pete's sake you could even see all of gog.com's available games listed on one page.
Although this has made me positive I'm never buying from Gamersgate, another smaller site run by another smaller developer. Direct2Drive is ok I suppose, they seem second biggest to Steam and they're owned by IGN. How do you know that? That would be ridiculously good for such a small selection. That would even be decent for PSN.
hey buddy, you trying to pick a fight or what. don't use small to describe gog.com's selection of 400 or so games in one sentence and then smaller in the next to describe gamersgate who has like double the amount of titles to steam. I'm gonna get angry alrightvazel said:Haha at the people worrying about their Steam games. Because a small site like gog.com is indicative that the biggest digital distribution site for games may shut down. For Pete's sake you could even see all of gog.com's available games listed on one page.
Although this has made me positive I'm never buying from Gamersgate, another smaller site run by another smaller developer. Direct2Drive is ok I suppose, they seem second biggest to Steam and they're owned by IGN. How do you know that? That would be ridiculously good for such a small selection. That would even be decent for PSN.
good info, dude. you should have come sooner :-DAdrianWerner said:People, relax. It's just a marketing stunt. Worse one ever. I don't know who at CDP thought this was a good idea to drop the beta and go final in such manner, but he's a moron.
And yes, it is a stunt, CEO warned financial forums couple days ago to ignore what will appear on Gog site soon. .t. It's a mess overall...23rd there was supposed to be full blown conference (like the one in Spring, when they've shown Witcher 2 for the first time), but it was just annouced it won't happen and there will be online conference instead.
Anyway, bassicaly GoG is simply ending it's beta phase and going final, that's all. Some speculate it will get a standalone client too.
Minsc said:Steam's not safe forever. Gabe is mortal, and money corrupts, even if Gabe is immune to selling, doesn't mean the next in line won't want a 100M+ or whatever it's worth.
Steam going public and undergoing huge policy changes, or possibly a monthly subscription fee would certainly upset a good number of people just as much or more than it ending.
DON'T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS! >:/Minsc said:Steam's not safe forever. Gabe is mortal, and money corrupts, even if Gabe is immune to selling, doesn't mean the next in line won't want a 100M+ or whatever it's worth.
Steam going public and undergoing huge policy changes, or possibly a monthly subscription fee would certainly upset a good number of people just as much or more than it ending.
Steam is worth a lot more than $100 million, trust me. :lolMinsc said:Steam's not safe forever. Gabe is mortal, and money corrupts, even if Gabe is immune to selling, doesn't mean the next in line won't want a 100M+ or whatever it's worth.
Steam going public and undergoing huge policy changes, or possibly a monthly subscription fee would certainly upset a good number of people just as much or more than it ending.
vazel said:Haha at the people worrying about their Steam games. Because a small site like gog.com is indicative that the biggest digital distribution site for games may shut down. For Pete's sake you could even see all of gog.com's available games listed on one page.
Although this has made me positive I'm never buying from Gamersgate, another smaller site run by another smaller developer. Direct2Drive is ok I suppose, they seem second biggest to Steam and they're owned by IGN.
vazel said:I'd imagine any new owners wouldn't want to piss off the established customer base with radical changes. Steam's loyal customer base would be a big reason why anyone would want to buy Steam.
God and I literally had planned to buy over half of those eventually, once I cut down on my backlog.Joseph Merrick said:yeah, didn't have the lucasarts stuff. but they did have some nice ones, all the myst games, gabriel knights, sanitarium, amerzone/syberias, anotherworld, beneathasteelsky although this is free of course, brokenswords, darkfalls, gobliiins, king's quests, space quests, phantasmagorias, texmurphys, journeymanproject2, longest journey