Good Old Games has shut down

Gimpymoo · 19 Sep 2010 at 19:55

sr4470 said:
http://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Akc...-mln-akcji-funduszom-cena-1-8-zl-2209575.html

Seems someone bought a lot of shares in Optimus (the parent company of CD Projekt) a few days ago...

Valve perhaps? :eek:

Mahnsikir · 19 Sep 2010 at 19:55

wow, I actually just bought cannon fodder of them yesterday :eek:

thankfully I downloaded it straight away.

Pretty shocking news. It was a great service, maybe a tad expensive for some stuff, but still very good value for old games guaranteed to work 'outofthebox' with vitsa/win7 and no DRM as well.

Indy500 · 19 Sep 2010 at 19:58

Gimpymoo said:
Valve perhaps?

http://www.optimus.pl/index.php?pageid=11

I'm sure if it was someone like Valve, their site would have mentioned it by now.

Edit:

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/14926-digital-pc-classics-service-good-old-games-closes/

Seems Neoseeker has been in touch with a PR guy at GOG...

Gimpymoo · 19 Sep 2010 at 20:02

sr4470 said:
Edit:

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/14926-digital-pc-classics-service-good-old-games-closes/

Seems Neoseeker has been in touch with a PR guy at GOG...

Rumors are floating about this is actually a cleverly worded (and cruel) PR stunt for announcing the site going out of beta, which was due anytime now.

If true, then awesome on their behalf.

Indy500 · 19 Sep 2010 at 20:04

Gimpymoo said:
If true, then awesome on their behalf.

I'm not so sure, judging by some angry comments on neo's forum and the GOG facebook page.

VeNT · 19 Sep 2010 at 21:01

lol BACKLASH tastic if so
liked GOG but I think a lot of their games where overpriced (could be found in bargin bins for half the cost on GOG) but I've had a few things from their site since it started (bought a game the day it opened, was unable to download it properly for ages tho!)

Duouk2000 · 19 Sep 2010 at 21:06

What a mess, I wish they'd just come out and clarify everything :/

Flibster · 19 Sep 2010 at 21:12

I've got a dozen or so games from GOG. All worked perfectly without any hassle at all.

Damn.

Kesz · 19 Sep 2010 at 22:23

It may not be closing, just updating.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65645

Indy500 · 19 Sep 2010 at 22:36

Kesz said:
It may not be closing, just updating.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65645

Already been discussed, there's a new twitter update indicating that management will offer a comment on the situation tomorrow.

Mr Krugga · 19 Sep 2010 at 23:06

sr4470 said:
http://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Akc...-mln-akcji-funduszom-cena-1-8-zl-2209575.html

Seems someone bought a lot of shares in Optimus (the parent company of CD Projekt) a few days ago...

Only 3.45M shares were sold, it's less than 5% of total shares. Somebody's investing in the company.

Indy500 · 19 Sep 2010 at 23:14

Mr Krugga said:
Only 3.45M shares were sold, it's less than 5% of total shares. Somebody's investing in the company.

Well it's a lot better than the whole lot going under

HAz · 20 Sep 2010 at 00:35

DjchunKfunK · 20 Sep 2010 at 09:30

All seems a bit strange. Hope they aren't going under as they are a great little service allowing you to get hold of difficult to find games.

gronf · 20 Sep 2010 at 09:57

Is/was my favorite Digital Distro site along with Steam. Really liked the layout and just everything about it. Hope they clear things up soon.

Will Lucky · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:03

Any other DD service could have done it, Valve for example being a private company could do it anonymously but this isn't their strategy, if they intended to add old games they would simply go to the publisher and get deals done. As could any other DD Service.

This seems to point at another company or maybe another publisher attempting it. Remember CD Projekt has other assets such as The Witcher which could have been the target.

Beasty · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:11

Damn, hope they don't, they had one of my favourite games, Knights and Merchants on there, I liked being able to download it when I pleased

shaffaaf27 · 20 Sep 2010 at 17:08

oh man thats a damned shame

Sinny · 20 Sep 2010 at 18:51

They were the only site that did Constructor, damn. kept putting off buying it.

Dano · 20 Sep 2010 at 19:19

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 [email protected] if you're a media representative or to [email protected] if you're a user without a GOG account.

Blatantly coming out of beta I reckon.