Good Old Games shuts it's doors

[Greg King]

News team, post this on the front page.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2010/09/19/gog-com-closes-down/1

Apparently GoG.com closed their virtual doors yesterday (September 19th, 2010). This is a HUGE bummer.

That said, it appears that maybe they will be back. I hope this is the case. They were such a solid site to get, ahem, good old games.

 

[Rob Williams]

Ugh, this sucks. Posted about it here:

http://techgage.com/news/good_old_games_closes_shop/

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I love that company...

I got Unreal Tournament 2004 from them...

 

[Rob Williams]

It's widely speculated that this is nothing more than a marketing ploy, because they released a video that hardly looks like a "shutting down" video. Some thing that this is how they chose to come out of "beta", but if so, it's the stupidest marketing ploy ever.

But I can't help but want it to be true.

 

[Rob Williams]

Just got this e-mail from them... it's seeming like more and more of a joke to me.

We'd like to invite you to a GOG.com online press conference concerning recent events, which will take place on Wednesday, September 22 at 12 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. CET) at http://www.transmisjeonline.pl/gogconference

Flash Player 9 or above required to take part in the conference.

Thanks for being with us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRvuKjissQ

 

[Greg King]

Just got this e-mail from them... it's seeming like more and more of a joke to me.

We'd like to invite you to a GOG.com online press conference concerning recent events, which will take place on Wednesday, September 22 at 12 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. CET) at http://www.transmisjeonline.pl/gogconference

Flash Player 9 or above required to take part in the conference.

Thanks for being with us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRvuKjissQ

Dicks. While I hope they come back online soon, this seems like a childish way to garner attention. Though I guess the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad press.

Either way, I have thrown quite a few dollars there way for games. Losing the service that they provide sucks.

 

[Tharic-Nar]

They're probably going for a rebrand and some new updates to the software... so rather than state that they are taking the site down for maintenance and surprise everyone, they're pulling a very badly done stunt, sure, people are talking about it but damn, this is silly...

 

[Rob Williams]

It's true that there's no such thing as "bad press", but this is just absurd. On one hand, I like the fact that the service might not be dead, but on the other, I don't think customers like to be screwed around with. It's not like this was a free service - it's one that a lot of people sunk a lot of cash into, so to just be told that it's gone and then resurface a couple of days later... not the best of ideas.

I still hope it lives on, because I still like the service, but man, what a stupid move if this proves to be nothing more than some elaborate marketing ploy. Even if they simply removed their "Beta" tag, that would have made headlines all over.