GoG's Dead

[Zeus]

Guys have you heard? Shadow Magic had DRM!

If you buy it through Impulse it will. Besides piracy and $60 on eBay, that's the only option. Pretty sure the original had a disc check, which is more than GOG would have required.

 

[SCO]

The patch 1.4 (i think) had no copy protection.

 

[phanboy_iv]

Rumor is a company bought out CDP parent company Optimus, which would explain the recent rise and then slight dip of Optimus shares.

My take: A (western?) company wanted to buy their way into digital distribution, and bought out the parent company. GOG'll back under a different name with modern games and DRM.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Good that I managed to grab Commandos ammo pack before it was too late.

But I think it's just an elaborate troll and 'lololo changing site name and bringing more quality than ever!1' anyway.

 

[Tails]

I won't be surprised if GoG comes back and call this a hilarious joke for end of beta. If not... oh well.

 

[Zeus]

The patch 1.4 (i think) had no copy protection.

Regardless, I doubt Impulse will make an exception to their own brand of DRM, so that leaves me with $60 on eBay.

...or piracy, and considering the guy who designed AoW is still onboard Triumph Studios, which is currently all, "Hey! Buy our games on Impulse and GOG!" this isn't one of those infamous RPGCodex "Gonna pirate it cuz the devs won't get the money anyway " situations.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Not to mention: http://polygamia.pl/Polygamia/1,107162, ... j_nie.html

^ basically, 'don't panic when you see the announcement on gog.com' by Michał Kiciński of CDP.

 

[Zeus]

Atari

Which means the tactical/4X games. X-Com, Master of Magic, MOO 1/2... just great.

 

[Quilty]

Aw, come on, I was just about to redownload JA2.

Oh well, real men have a boxed copy of JA2 anyway.

 

[Gragt]

I'd rather have it be a rather bad joke than see it for real. Then again it reminds me when the public tv here announced one evening that the north declared independence and Belgium ceased to exist. Good times.

 

[ironyuri]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23418875&postcount=240

People, relax. It's just a marketing stunt. Worse one ever. I don't know who at CDP thought this was a good idea to drop the beta and go final in such manner, but he's a moron.

And yes, it is a stunt, CEO warned financial forums couple days ago to ignore what will appear on Gog site soon. .t. It's a mess overall...23rd there was supposed to be full blown conference (like the one in Spring, when they've shown Witcher 2 for the first time), but it was just annouced it won't happen and there will be online conference instead.

Anyway, bassicaly GoG is simply ending it's beta phase and going final, that's all. Some speculate it will get a standalone client too.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23418875&postcount=240

People, relax. It's just a marketing stunt. Worse one ever. I don't know who at CDP thought this was a good idea to drop the beta and go final in such manner, but he's a moron.

And yes, it is a stunt, CEO warned financial forums couple days ago to ignore what will appear on Gog site soon. .t. It's a mess overall...23rd there was supposed to be full blown conference (like the one in Spring, when they've shown Witcher 2 for the first time), but it was just annouced it won't happen and there will be online conference instead.

Anyway, bassicaly GoG is simply ending it's beta phase and going final, that's all. Some speculate it will get a standalone client too.

wow if this is true then that is one of the most retarded idea some one most have gotten EVER!.

 

[spekkio]

It struck me that they make an effort of changing their browser icon while going belly-up.

So, yeah - stupid marketing gimmick.

 

[Hobo Elf]

And so begins the fallout of digital distribution. I haid a fair amount of games from GOG. I'd like the chance to re-download all the installers so I can back them up at the very least.

 

[spekkio]

FFS people, it's some Codexer at GoG trying to troll Skyway...

 

[Admiral jimbob]

NO NO NO I DON'T WANT OLD GAMES GETTING EXPOSURE THEN THEY'LL BE POPULAR AND I WON'T BE ELITE FOR LIKING THEM ANYMORE

 

[FeelTheRads]

Some speculate it will get a standalone client too.

What? So you'll need some steam-like crap to the play the games too?

But hey, it will be good, along with supposedly fixed bugs that aren't fixed and so on.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

ffs

 

[racofer]

GoG: They took our jobs!

 

[fizzelopeguss]

polacks cannot into business.

 

[Luzur]

i dont really care, most of those games they sold could be found for free elsewhere.

 

[Zeus]

And so begins the fallout of digital distribution. I haid a fair amount of games from GOG. I'd like the chance to re-download all the installers so I can back them up at the very least.

Er... why wouldn't you have those backed up?

 

[Elwro]

Heh, I also found that "don't believe what you see on gog.com" line from Kicinski. It's beyond my comprehension that anyone, even a Pollack, could try to pull such a joke. I'd rather think that, maybe, some other guy was officially in charge of Gog and he went rogue after the share-related business I wrote about before.

 

[I.C. Wiener]

Fucking idiots, all of them. I was going to by Realms of Arkania eventually but a stunt like this lost my business forever. And if it isn't a publicity stunt, still fuck them for poor financial management. How do you fuck up a business where all you have to pay for is a little bandwidth?

 

[SharkClub]

Hopefully it will come back up some time.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://twitter.com/EvolveTom/status/24956916744