GoG to reopen later today

I’d never even heard of them.

Well, the tricksters. I think they made a lot of people ‘quite cross’ with this – a prime example of a joke gone wrong.

oh for the love of gog

What a bunch of idiots. This would be like if a bank…well, if a bank did exactly what they did.

~1.5hours left until I get to buy BG1.

Cheap self-advertising. Pathetic.
Then again, I’ve been looking where to buy Baldur’s Gate. Do they have part 2 as well?

Why is thes even such a big’a'deal? It’s just an on line store… like many others.

It’s not ‘just like the others’, though. They actually do some re-engineering on the oldie games that they sell to make them work nicely on modern hardware.

It’s a cool place and deserves more love, although they haven’t really helped themselves this week.

Good Old Games (it’s not GoG, but GOG) is easily the most user-friendly digital distribution portal, and they’ve got tons of great games (at mostly great prices; some publishers, like Ubisoft, tend to overprice stuff).

This stunt was lame as hell, but I love the shop, and I am really glad they didn’t disappear forever. And hey, if they could get someone as generally disinterested in PC-gaming as VG247 to mention them, they must have done something right.

I do hope that now that VG247 is aware of the site, they’ll pay some attention to it. I mean, if they for instance release Planescape: Torment later on (as it’s a Hasbro-game), that would actually be genuinely big news, as that game is not available on any digital distribution portals, and it’s perhaps the best RPG ever created.

Because, you couldn’t just buy it on DVD, in the mean time?

i just hope they release:

thief 1/2
system shock 1/2
planescape torment

when they do that i’ll use their service

I can’t believe anyone can be that stupid, really.

Playing jokes is all well and good, but using one of people’s worst fears about digital distribution to promote your digitial distrubtion service? That just makes you an idiot.

That’s a bit like having your doctor tell you you have progressive lymph node cancer, only to come out laughing and be like “Ha-ha! Bet you’ll remember me now!”. In which case of course you’d stab him in the eye with a pen, and tell him the exact same thing.

It is a good site and they are doing a great job bringing sexy back. I keep hoping they’ll do the LBA games and Rocket Jockey.

SplatteredHouse: Maybe it’s widely available in your part of the world, but it isn’t here.

i gather they dont use anything similar to the steam client?

Site’s still down. Are we sure it was 1pm BST?

Edit: No, wait… it’s up! Just… really slow.

@14 They have an online account function for all your games, but at least during beta you’d download an installer from there.

Yeah, there’s no Steam-like DRM-client. Once you’ve downloaded the installer, you can install the game wherever, whenever.