GoG is run by the omnivalent curators of our shared gaming heritage

[ManaByte]

So GoG shut down their site without warning, cutting everyone off from the games they bought WITHOUT ANY SORT OF WARNING. Just load up the page, and "OOPS SORRY WE'RE SHUT DOWN THANK YOU FOR YOUR MONEY"

People flipped the fuck out.

Today they're like "LOLZ IT WAS JUST OUR OUT OF BETA ANNOUCEMENT! RELAUNCH TOMORROW"

What kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows think that shutting down a site where you paid for games, without warning, as a joke would earn them more customers?

Oh yea, Baldur's Gate + Expansion tomorrow for $10 on their dumb ass site.

[demi]

What kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows think that shutting down a site where you paid for games, without warning, as a joke would earn them more customers?

Archie

[archie4208]

What kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows think that shutting down a site where you paid for games, without warning, as a joke would earn them more customers?

Archie

I'm buying Baldur's Gate first thing tomorrow so their marketing scheme worked like a charm. 

[Sho Nuff]

WTF why would you ever do this

[CajoleJuice]

I lol'd

I've also never bought anything from them.

(even though I think the site and concept are great)

[demi]

I already own Baldur's Gate. Cause I'm more hardcore PC gamer...

[Diunx]

I already own Baldur's Gate. Cause I'm more hardcore PC gamer...

Send me the torrent.

[magus]

baldur's gate

[archie4208]

Not enough thousand year old loli demons, eh?

[magus]

exactly
but there is one character i can save admist all that mess! this one!

[Great Rumbler]

You're talking about GoG, aren't you? Sounds like their plan worked just fine.

[Great Rumbler]

What kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellow would purchase a game on a website that depended on that website staying up?

Reported for trolling.

[archie4208]

Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services?

but Steam will never go down because Valve will be around forever

[demi]

Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services?

> what kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellow

> steam

[archie4208]

Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services?

but Steam will never go down because Valve will be around forever

Gabe's arteries aren't immortal.  :'(

[Great Rumbler]

1. You buy a game on GoG

2. You download an installation file

3. You install the game whenever you want, on as many computers as you want. Forever.

[demi]

Cool, that sounds awesome

> torrent

[Joe Molotov]

Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services?

but Steam will never go down because Valve will be around forever

Gabe's arteries aren't immortal.  :'(

He's kept alive by machines, powered by the millions of bitter tears released every time he doesn't announce Episode 3. Also microwavable burritos.

[Positive Touch]

Cool, that sounds awesome

> torrent

exactly.  why the shit would anyone want to pay $10 for games that came out 10+ years ago and could easily be downloaded in minutes FOR FREE?  the "omg think of the developers!" argument doesn't work here because so many of those companies are no longeraround.  JUST STEAL IT FFS

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I only bought them because they're updated to work on Win 7 and Vista. You think I wouldn't pirate otherwise?

[Rman]

What a disastrous PR stunt.

[Great Rumbler]

What a disastrous PR stunt.

Again, everyone is talking about it, so it sounds like their plan worked just fine.

[demi]

What a disastrous PR stunt.

Again, everyone is talking about it, so it sounds like their plan worked just fine.

Everyone talked about Ubi DRM as well. Was that their plan too?

Nobody's gonna buy shit just like last time.

[Great Rumbler]

What a disastrous PR stunt.

Again, everyone is talking about it, so it sounds like their plan worked just fine.

Everyone talked about Ubi DRM as well. Was that their plan too?

[Bebpo]

It's really stupid, but I don't buy a ton from them and I'll still keep buying.

The only difference is I'm re-downloading everything I own this weekend and any future games I buy I will download right away and keep everything backed up on my HDD.  They have some good stuff and the fact it works on Win7 is a big plus.

[Damian79]

Yeah, them making games work on windows 7 is an awesoem thing.

[originalz]

I like GoG and I've bought tons of games from them.  I was a bit concerned when the original message went up, even a bit pissed since I don't keep my installers, but it's not like I would have needed them for this one week anyway.  I don't agree that it was a good marketing stunt, but whatever, I'll be back buying shit from them once they go back up.

[dicklaurent]

bu bu how can I ever trust this company again. you're not supposed to trust a company you dumb american cunt. this is the reason you would buy a game from gog

actually gog torrents don't seem that frequent, or easy to come by. which is weird since their installers are vastly better than vanilla ISOs of the games they sell. if the site ever dies I'll throw all my gog installers up on a torrent site, I almost did when they started this little joke session. but decided to wait a few days, hehe.

I like GoG and I've bought tons of games from them.  I was a bit concerned when the original message went up, even a bit pissed since I don't keep my installers, but it's not like I would have needed them for this one week anyway.  I don't agree that it was a good marketing stunt, but whatever, I'll be back buying shit from them once they go back up.

not sure how anyone could be pissed by this? the original message always said the games people owned would be available for download again later in the week. the only reasonable reaction should have been disappointment over them not getting to rerelease any more games.

[originalz]

I didn't know if the site would be back up for good or just for a few days etc. to back shit up.  I have a lot of games and limited hard drive space, so having several gigs worth of installers would have been impractical for me.  There are also several games which won't run on my computer since it's old, but I bought the games on sale with the intention of playing them when I get a new computer.

[Reb]

No, you are run by distinguished mentally-challenged fellows.

[chronovore]

I've never been tempted to go back and buy old games because there's just too much new crap in my backlog already, but IF I were a current customer of GoG, I'd be pissed, and if I was considering becoming a customer, this'd be the deciding move for me.

Yeah, it generated a lot of news, a lot of publicity, but it has fostered so much distrust and shown a real lack of judgment. Dangling customers' spent money in front of them and hinting that it may be lost is about as smart as Michael Jackson dangling that baby off the hotel balcony.

[Great Rumbler]

"I've never bought anything from GoG before or even gone to their site, but this news just has me STEAMED!"

[archie4208]

The new site is loading so slow.  Looks like the stunt probably did more good than harm.  I still think it was fucking distinguished mentally-challenged, but it probably did more to generate interest than just overhauling one day.

[Bebpo]

It's probably slow because everyone is fucking paranoid and wants to redownload ALL THEIR GAMES asap in case they suddenly disappear with no warning again.

That's what I'm doing this weekend!


Baldur's gate 1+exp is nice.  But do the original games have problems running on modern computers?  Because you can get the entire Baldurs gate set with I/II/2exps for like the same price online boxed.

[AdmiralViscen]

Call me when they have Win7 TIE Fighter

[Bebpo]

So I've been downloading all my games as backup and I installed Gabriel Knight 1 and damn, not only does it run perfect in Win7, but it still looks and sounds fantastic.  The voice acting is better than anything this gen.  Makes me want to take a few days and replay it!

[chronovore]

"I've never bought anything from GoG before or even gone to their site, but this news just has me STEAMED!"

- um, yeah, sadly almost dead-on. I've visited GoG several times, haven't found anything to override my reticence, but thought it was a good idea for a service. If Jinfash is right that the site even offered downloads WHILE looking like they might shut down, this is just bad judgment but nothing harmful. I'd been under the impression that the main page hosted that "KTHXBYE" message, AND offered no means of downloading. I should have checked the site before manifesting my nerd rage. 

[demi]

No, you are run by distinguished mentally-challenged fellows.

Bizzzzzanned

[Reb]

:'(

[naff]

I was a little surprised by the joke, but I still love GoG. at nerdrage.

[dicklaurent]

the best most pathetic pc related nerdrage can still be found on bluesnews

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=114460
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=114429

[chronovore]

"I've never bought anything from GoG before or even gone to their site, but this news just has me STEAMED!"

- um, yeah, sadly almost dead-on. I've visited GoG several times, haven't found anything to override my reticence, but thought it was a good idea for a service. If Jinfash is right that the site even offered downloads WHILE looking like they might shut down, this is just bad judgment but nothing harmful. I'd been under the impression that the main page hosted that "KTHXBYE" message, AND offered no means of downloading. I should have checked the site before manifesting my nerd rage. 

Honey, you rage with tact and class. I approve

[Great Rumbler]

Sorry everyone for the delay in the launch of the new website. Our servers, even though we've augmented their number, just didn't manage to support the huge interest from your side - we're having 20 times the biggest traffic we have ever had in our history! We're adding more servers as we speak and everything should start improving. Enjoy the new website, all the features and the newly released Baldur's Gate.

http://www.gog.com/en/news/the_launch_slightly_delayed/0

[archie4208]

The rest of the Infinity Engine games are probably coming soonish. 

[dicklaurent]

hot shit. too bad gp3 is impossible. I think those are the only good hasbrointeractive games, d&ds rollercoastertycoon and gp3.

[GilloD]

Jesus christ, shut the fuuuuuck up.

GoG is great! Also, you DL the DRM-free executable, so if you rely on them to host all of your like 100mb .exes, tough nipples, jerkoff!

[dicklaurent]

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/planescape_torment

[pilonv1]

all is forgiven

[Great Rumbler]

I've still got a physical copy, but I wouldn't mind picking up a nice little optimized executable.

[Bebpo]

awesome

now bring on system shock 2 and I'm set

[archie4208]

Polacks

[Howard Alan Treesong]

wow, GoG is forgiven

OMG, does this mean we'll get BG2 later this week

[archie4208]

It looks like they are doing Infinity Engine releases chronologically, which means we will get Icewind Dale, then BG2 then IWD2.

[CajoleJuice]

wow

[naff]

Nice, tried to play Planscape again a while ago but the sound wasn't working properly. Will buy this. GoG

[Howard Alan Treesong]

be sure to install these: http://www.bootstrike.com/Torment/files.html

[CajoleJuice]

all of them?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

All inclusive Fix Pack + Unfinished Business
Widescreen MOD
UI MOD

just those

no need for the 1.1 patch

[CajoleJuice]

Will keep this in mind when I eventually get around to buying and playing it. Thanks.