Take a look. Why the hell?
Woah. That does come as a surprise. I liked having that as a fallback for all the old games, but I think they just decided too much of what they were selling was uninteresting.
They could have done much better with a subscription-based model like Gametap if they kept finding new things.
Never heard of it.
So you dis younger people for not playing older games, but you never heard of gog.com. That’s just lame.
They might have been having trouble competing with Steam. Also, several of their titles were just too expensive (especially considering their age).
wha…nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Well this is fucking lame. Gog is awesome. Not only do they sell awesome older games (DRM free I might add) but they include bonus content as well as hack and patch the games to allow them to run on newer systems.
For example they had the only copy of beyond good and evil that would work on windows 7 x64. (not even the steam or pirated copies could claim that)
I hope they figure out a business strategy to continue on because there were a few games that I still would have liked to play.
^this
and
actually it’s not down, it’s still there, I’ve read it was a PR gag. So everything should be fine.
Yeah, being too expensive was definitely a downfall. Because of credit card transfer fees, you can’t hold a business off of $1-games or anything like that, but having $5 to $10 for individual games of that age is ridiculous. They should have focused a lot more on things like packs of games, or even letting people pick out 8 to 10 games of a certain type to buy for $10.
Also disregard DiePonte’s post until he posts a source.
Damn I loved that website. I hope they’ll find a way to get it up and running again.
gog aint got shit on piracy
What about using a Virtual Machine? Dual Boot? Proper Patch? I doubt they pay a dedicated team of programmers who update every game to work in 7 x64, and if they did I can see why they are closing down.
Nothing does. Free is difficult to beat. But as I think it was Gabe has said the best method is to provide a better service. GoG was trying that and some people find being able to easily launch a game from your OS with out work arounds worth the money.
if there’s no alternative I agree it’s a big loss, I was planning to buy all my favorite pirated games once I had enough cash to spare
It may be a PR stunt, but another possibility is that a few of the publishers that they had deals with have pulled out. With GoG’s whole no DRM thing, it figures that the publishers might have some clause in their contracts allowing them to pull product at any time.
there were a few games developers that did pull out (code masters for example). All that happened was that the game was no longer available for purchase, but those who did could continue to download it from there account.
in a metrocop VOCODER voice SHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTT!!!
back to normal human voice
dammit, now how the hell am I gonna buy Redneck Rampage?
New news…
UPDATE 20.09.2010
First of all, we apologize everyone for the whole situation and closing GOG.com. We do understand the timing for taking down the site caused confusion and many users didn’t manage to download all their games. Unfortunately we had to close the service due to business and technical reasons.
At the same time we guarantee that every user who bought any game on GOG.com will be able to download all their games with bonus materials, DRM-free and as many times as they need starting this Thursday.
The official statement from GOG.com’s management concerning the ongoing events is planned on Wednesday. If you want to receive further information about GOG.com, please send an email to update_media[cat]gog[spot]com if you’re a media representative or to update_users[cat]gog[spot]com if you’re a user without a GOG account.
BUT we ignored something…
Here goes
‘‘we’ve decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form.’’
Maybe it will relaunch in another form…