GOG.com Closes Down!

[sturryz]

http://www.gog.com/

WTF happened, I was buying alot of games from then and all of the sudden they decide that this whole thing just randomly bores them? What a freaking scam.

 

[Harlemura]

Maybe it means they're taking all the money they got from this and moving onto a bigger project that will make them more money, thus giving customers a larger, better selection of games.
Or something.

I dunno, I've never heard of GOG.com before.

 

[Valdsator]

What the hell!?

At least we'll still be able to re-download our games, but this is dumb! D: Ugh... guess I'll have to wait for Steam to get all the old games I want, or I'll have to order from Amazon. This sucks. :[

 

[sturryz]

I hope gog.com wasn't a digital distribution site like Steam or Impulse.

Thats exactly what it was.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

I'm sure it didn't BORE them, I read it and they want to close it because they probably weren't doing so well for cash. They say you can redownload your games soon so... yeah.

Calumon: Now we have to go back in time and use old time engines... : (

 

[VincentX3]

Seems like a scam to me.

 

[sturryz]

Gonna be honest, not gonna buy any future products from the company if they think this is fair treatment to people. They are just whining because their support couldn't keep up with the amount of people using the service.

 

[sturryz]

looks like the message changed, hopefully they have plans to bring it back up.

 

[Aussie Legend]

Noooooooo ;(

How will I get my sweet ass GOG action now?

 

[C95J]

never heard of it before unfortunately

 

[Frankster]

Nuuuu gog.com is one of my fav sites on the entire net, like a goldmine full of awesome old games!

If it gets taken down I will really be a sad panda, still had quite a few purchases to make.

 

[GothmogII]

All I'm getting is a picture of a teddybear holding up the world with the words: We're overwhelmed by the popularity of our service Please check back soon!

Still, sad to see it go if it is closing up shop, it was a good place to get older games on the cheap.

 

[Frankster]

I hope gog.com wasn't a digital distribution site like Steam or Impulse.

Thats exactly what it was.

Ya know, stuff like this shakes my trust in Digital Distribution. It doesn't just happen to smaller companies, remember when Microsoft dropped their music DD?

If ya tried gog it would have restored your faith in digital distribution. Besides being dirt cheap, the support for their games was second to none, especially considering that they specialized in older games which would have difficulties running on current comps, but they made it work.

If sites goes back up, give it a try before you judge

 

[NoNameMcgee]

Gonna be honest, not gonna buy any future products from the company if they think this is fair treatment to people. They are just whining because their support couldn't keep up with the amount of people using the service.

What are you whining about?

The games you bought have no form of DRM, and don't require you to be connected to their service; so once you have them, you have them. From the sound of it you will also be able to re-download them should you need to. You have gotten exactly what you paid for and agreed to.

SO you're whining because they are not continuing to re-release even MORE games for you to buy? They have every right to stop doing that and whatever reason they have (not making enough money, or just not interested anymore and moving on) is good enough, because it is completely their prerogative. They provided you with the service you paid for, how is that a "scam"?

By all means be upset at the fact that you won't be getting even more great deals and revivements of old games to enjoy, but don't be pissed at them for making that decision. They're a company, a business, sometimes businesses have to be shut down; and they don't owe you anything besides what you already got from individual purchases

 

[Lopunny]

UGH! I was planning on getting Masters Of Orion 2 from them Guess i'll have to resort to the DOSbox version...

 

[Johnnyallstar]

wow, thankfully I never used it. I actually looked on their website for a few games that I remembered from my past.

Sorry to see that Good Old Games shut down

But in good news, they say they're going to try and find a way to let you all download the games you already had.

 

[Moriarty]

I am not judging their service but rather how easily all your DD games can become worthless if a service shuts down. I am saying that it could happen to Steam too and I am really not buying that they have a patch to unlock your games since that would require approval from the publisher of each game.

nope. The games would have become worthless only because of drm.

gog.com had no drm whatsoever, if you downloaded the install files for the games you bought and burned them to dvds or made other backups, this doesn't affect you.

 

[Mr.Petey]

Gonna be honest, not gonna buy any future products from the company if they think this is fair treatment to people. They are just whining because their support couldn't keep up with the amount of people using the service.

What are you whining about?

The games you bought have no form of DRM, and don't require you to be connected to their service; so once you have them, you have them. From the sound of it you will also be able to re-download them should you need to. You have gotten exactly what you paid for and agreed to.

SO you're whining because they are not continuing to re-release even MORE games for you to buy? They have every right to stop doing that and whatever reason they have (not making enough money, or just not interested anymore and moving on) is good enough, because it is completely their prerogative. They provided you with the service you paid for, how is that a "scam"?

By all means be upset at the fact that you won't be getting even more great deals and revivements of old games to enjoy, but don't be pissed at them for making that decision. They're a company, a business, sometimes businesses have to be shut down; and they don't owe you anything besides what you already got from individual purchases

Excellent point. Unlike Steam, GOG's games can run independent of any servers and DRM licenses. As the site closes, the games I've already purchased from there at bargain prices are still more than capable of running. It'll just be up to us users to keep the original setup files intact if we wish to reinstall at a future date.

It's disappointing to hear they're going but I'm not gonna throw any cd's out of the box as it were. They've done a good service but people here saying it's a scam? In what respect and for what evidence do you have for it. We were able to buy games that cannot be found in stores anymore and 99% of them worked off the bat (worse case scenario you had to do some slight tweaking in the settings and such) but they were still better than some ebay scratched used CD any day.
Sorry but how is this a scam? You bought games, downloaded them and enjoyed going back to some fond gaming memories that I personally think had a better back catalogue than Steam did. You didn't even need to play the games with an internet connection and no constant linkup to a server unlike Steam

 

[Moriarty]

I know that (from this thread) but Steam IS DRM and is also a DD service.

Ah..nevermind. I am not getting through.

but there is no point to your argument here.
A store had to close it's business and it's customers don't lose a thing. (except the opportunity to buy more stuff).

IF steam someday closes down and doesn't provide a patch, you've got reasons to be upset, but there's just nothing here.

 

[Orry]

Sigh, and I was planning on buying Age of Wonders in a few days.