Stolen Pixels #229: The Tearful Goodbye

[Moriarty70]

Indeed.

And whats this? Is that Baldur's Gate? Yes it is. And now it is mine.

I swear, the moment I finished installing it I heard a voice say "Minsc and Boo missed your clicks of justice. NOW POINT TO THE EYES!" followed by an adorable squeek.

 

[Robyrt]

Is it just me, or does this guy have a crippling spinal problem?

 

[jurnag12]

To be honest, I wouldnt approve of someone punching Kotick in the happysack.
glueing a little device that cannot be removed and will shock him every time he's a money-grabbing bastard, now THAT would be awesome.

 

[Worgen]

GAH, fucker, I was just going tho the site and its got more then a few games I effin loved growing up, you have helped these ppl take money from me, Im not sure if I should hit you or hug you... Im also not sure who this is directed at

 

[The Random One]

Oh Shamus, you'll always be a crazy old guy with a gun for me.

Hey, I just heard, unless we can sell 1500 Publisher's Club subscriptions [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/registration/subscribe] by the end of next week, we'll have to get rid of all our original content and just re-post stuff from Digg gaming to try and make ends meet.

Sorry for breaking the news this way, but it seemed an appropriate context.

Man I knew merging the Escapist with the Girl Scouts was a bad idea, but did anyone listen? Noooooo!

 

[Something Amyss]

It certainly worked on me. I now know GoG exists. And they have some tempting titles. Still, I'm annoyed by the "trick," so I don't know if I'm buying them.

 

[Brad Shepard]

I can say Ive never heard of Gog before.

 

[SimplexPL]

I can say Ive never heard of Gog before.

And now you have, which means that their devious scheme worked

 

[Pete Oddly]

Hey...is that the pistol from Postal 2?

 

[Mcupobob]

That comic scared me for a moment. I would die a little inside if GOG went down.

EDIT: Seriously, GOG is like the Jesus of DD.

 

[Irridium]

Indeed.

And whats this? Is that Baldur's Gate? Yes it is. And now it is mine.

Share the love....?

I really like the Heaven's Fury battle music

 

[Irridium]

Indeed.

And whats this? Is that Baldur's Gate? Yes it is. And now it is mine.

Share the love....?

I really like the Heaven's Fury battle music

Oh thank you...?

Dunno how that's sharing the love of Bioware but okay.

Oh, I thought you wanted me to share the love about some of your stuff

 

[Zakarath]

Very funny comic, Shamus...
And yeah; I'm pretty annoyed at GOG... but on the other hand, they have Descent 1 & 2 and I've been looking for those EVERYWHERE...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Haha, nice one Shamus. I'll have to check out this site now. Any group of people who are a thorn in the side of Bobby Kotick has my support.

 

[Spinozaad]

Dear Shamus,

I both hate and love you.

I love you for referring me to that wondeful site. I hate you for making me eat Ramen Noodles for pretty much all of October.

Just kidding, I don't really hate Ramen Noodles.

 

[Grey_Area]

Communication is ALWAYS better than no communication.

Any puclicity may be better than no publicity, but positive publicity is always better than negative.

GoG.com's marketers should have known this.

I appreciate that they haven't truly gone away, but this stunt would only have worked if they coupled it with, say, a week long everything for half-price sale, or twenty new games to look at. One new game? Nah, that's just business as usual. Except now when you purchase it you can't use their own downloader to get it.