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GOG.com Not Really Gone

Posted by samzenpus on from the stepped-out-for-a-minute dept.

gspr writes "On Sunday, Slashdot and many others reported that DRM-free games site GOG.com was shutting down. Now the site is back, revealing that it was all a hoax. According to the site: 'Now it's time we put an end to all the speculations once and for all. It's true that we decided that we couldn't keep GOG.com the way it was so we won't. As you probably know by now, GOG.com is entering its new era with an end of the two-years beta stage and we're launching a brand new GOG.com with new, huge releases.' So it was all an advertising stunt."

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  1. DRM demonstration by MDHowle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It was all a demonstration of what inevitable happens to DRM media.

  2. Unprofessional by joshuaf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I only have 2 games from them, but this kind of weird drama does make me less likely to purchase anymore in the future. It just seemed super unprofessional compared to steam and impulse.

  3. As a loyal customer by thetagger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... this stunt was horrible and silly and an annoyance. I recently reinstalled my computer, and when I went to Gog.com to redownload Gabriel Knight I got that stupid "zomg we're closing down" message. It feels like something straight out the 1990s, when nobody expected any degree of seriousness from Internet companies - thanks for reminding us how WE SHOUDLN'T TRUST YOU in the future, that's great marketing.

  4. Re:The important part by MrNiceguy_KS · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have the original box for Discworld II - Missing, Presumed...? but the discs are, sadly, long gone.

    I can't be the only one who noticed the irony.

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  5. Re:Still won't use it by shovas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They do more than that. They verify the games work without problems, using dosbox, under XP/Vista/7. They code and do actual porting on other titles because they have more than just dos games. They remove DRM where it exists. And they've gotten some great exclusives. They're honest (obvious by their amateurish behaviour), they have integrity, they're open and willing to communicate. Give them another shot. Their claim about porting applies to the X% of games they sell that can't run under DosBox and even some that too to fix bugs.

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