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Ravage

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A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

y2josh

what's gog

y2josh

StarBoy91

I never heard of GOG. What is it?

To each their own

Terra

Isn't GOG that Digital Download site for all those older PC games?

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Ravage

Yep... It had a ton of really neat games nobody had heard of in over 10 years. It was like VC for PC games.

Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

Ravage

I hope it's true.

Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

Bobpie

I hope it's just a marketing stunt, this site could be useful to find a game I used to own that now has a stuffed install.....

The Pie O' Bob be watching you...

benanen

Wow. It'd be nice if they gave their customers a concrete reason as to why they're shutting up shop.
Let's hope it is a stunt then...

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HolyMackerel

y2josh wrote:

what's gog

StarBoy91 wrote:

I never heard of GOG. What is it?

Terra wrote:

Isn't GOG that Digital Download site for all those older PC games?

Link-Hero wrote:

I've heard of GOG before, but never really knew what it was for, and never got off my lazy butt to check it out.

Dang.

Ravage wrote:

I hope it's true.

Dang! What did they ever do to you?

benanen wrote:

Wow. It'd be nice if they gave their customers a concrete reason as to why they're shutting up shop.
Let's hope it is a stunt then...

I doubt it, considering they took down the site and are allowing people to have one final download of all of the games they bought.

It was one of very few sites where you could get old PC games which worked reliably on new versions of Windows. Also one of very few digital stores with no DRM. Fare thee well, beloved GOG.

EDIT: Unless it is a stunt, hiding the fact that they're leaving "beta" (which was always plastered under their logo). Hmmmm...

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HolyMackerel

Ravage

HolyMackerel wrote:

Ravage wrote:

I hope it's true.

Dang! What did they ever do to you?

I meant that I hope it is just a stunt...

Also, the site has been updated and it's looking grimmer

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Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

Tasuki

I never heard of it till this post. A shame really it sounds like something I would have liked.

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Ravage

Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

benanen

That looks more like a trailer than a farewell...

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Ravage

It doesn't seem to be a farewell...

Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

HolyMackerel

I guess they just blew their cover with that trailer, huh. Guys! We have enough money to make an edgy trailer with pretty graphics! Pay attention!

And if this is all a publicity stunt, then a lot of people are going to be hella pee'ed off. If you run a service like that, people expect you to not disappear at your whim and fancy.

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HolyMackerel

benanen

So they're back.

First of all we would like to apologize everyone who felt deceived or harmed in any way by us closing down GOG.com without any warning and without giving access to your games. We apologize for that from the bottom of our hearts!

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.

The new GOG.com will launch at 8.00 a.m. EDT (2 p.m. CET). Later today we'll provide you here with 4 videos where you'll find all needed information about the current events, as well as news on the new GOG.com, the upcoming big releases and the summary of the last two years.

Word on the street is, it's all a little underwhelming. Pretty stupid stunt if you ask me. Some websites can give themselves a facelift overnight, with minimal fanfare.

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2-D

Never heard of it before, but that actually sounds really really cool.
I'll check out the new site, I might find one or two oldies I've been looking for!

Misfortune subdues small minds.

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benanen

2D wrote:

Never heard of it before, but that actually sounds really really cool.
I'll check out the new site, I might find one or two oldies I've been looking for!

Well, it looks like the publicity stunt worked!

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2-D

benanen wrote:

Well, it looks like the publicity stunt worked!

Haha, it sure did! I've been looking for a few nostalgic games, seems like a good place to find them. Anywhere else they don't work on Vista

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