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DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone

Posted by timothy on from the reconstruct-your-amnesia dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just a day after adding a new game and a handful of promotions, GOG.com, a seller of classic games in a DRM-free format, has closed shop, leaving only a sparse placeholder page and a mention on Twitter that 'sometimes it's really hard being DRM-free... hard to keep things the way they are and keep management and publishers happy.' The site mentions that games purchased in the past will become accessible for downloading within the week, but there is no word on how long this will continue to be possible." The announcement on the site's front page says, in part, "This doesn't mean the idea behind GOG.com is gone forever. We're closing down the service and putting this era behind us as new challenges await."

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  1. Re:Sigh by seebs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly. I got a big stack of their games, and I was really happy with them. I hope I still have local downloaded copies. :)

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  2. Re:More to the story.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Plus, they must suck at advertising. This is the first I heard of them.

    But wait ... Slashbot CorrectThink tells us that 1.) advertising and marketing are bad! 2.) Musicians or writers or artists should just be successful by word of mouth and not need evil corporations to advertise, that's why their model is outdated! And 3.) game companies would just succeed if only they removed all DRM! But this was a DRM-free games company that did no advertising and marketed by word of mouth to geeks ... they should have been guaranteed to never go out of business!

    PARADOX! PARADOX! NOMAD WILL NOW SELF-DESTRUCT!!!!

    In-your-face, shouting-down-everything-else, server-push advertising really sucks. Customer-directed, client-pull, there-when-you-are-looking-for-it directories like Yellow Pages are great. See the difference? One makes a product or service available to those who want to find it. The other is intrusive, unsolicited, obnoxious, insults your ability to decide for yourself what you should do with your money that you earned, and wants to sell you something you probably don't need and may not want.

    Only one of those is bad and you're not half as clever as you think you are. You can fuck off now.

  3. Re:Noo.... by drumstik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sick to your stomach? Over a video game company? Get some perspective, man, you have first world problems.