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Surprise! Good Old Games Is Not Dead, Relaunches Tomorrow
by Xav de Matos, Sep 22, 2010 9:45am PDTIn a conference online moments ago, representatives of Good Old Games confirmed that its suspected marketing ploy of closing down was just that, a marketing ploy.
Two representatives dressed as monks and referring to GOG as a "brother monk" outlined that the website will relaunch with a new look, replacing "98% of the site's original code."
The website will continue to operate in many ways as it has in the past: Games will still be DRM-free, titles will continue to be sold separately, and GOG will not run off a separate client.
During the conference, disguised as a sermon, the "monks" discussed their disappointment that many people believed the website was shut down. With a line in the original announcement like, "We're closing down the service and putting this era behind us as new challenges await," it's unclear how anyone got that idea.
The pair of "monks" ended the conference by confirming all existing titles will remain and the service will add Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga (including the expansion Tales of the Sword Coast) for $9.99, when the service relaunches tomorrow at 8a.m. EST.
Other hot new features include community-made "GoGMixes" allowing players to create a listing of themed titles to share with GoG users, better searching, forums, a recommendation engine, and a "like" button! So, worth the confusion, fellas!
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1) I already have a shit-ton of old games. I had a cursory interest in GoG, but nothing that a bit of work in DosBox / setting up a Virtual Machine and playing games I already owned wouldn't have typically fixed. And if I were to become a customer...
2) This 'marketing ploy' was bullshit. Customers don't deserve to be thrown about like that. For instance, those who had purchased titles were told, for half a week, that in the "following week" they'd set up a method of them to download their purchased titles, with current access denied. That's horse-shit, no two ways 'bout it.
Someone pointed out that maybe the humor in the marketing ploy was 'lost-in-translation', but really? Revoking access from your customer base doesn't gain you giggles. I'll just play my CD copy of Tex Murphy - The Pandora Directive, thank you.
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