Enchantermon on 20/9/2010 at 02:33
That's the hope I'm clinging to. Plus, it might be an insignificant thing, but they just changed the icon of the website (the one that shows up in the tabs, at least on Chrome) today. Why do that if they were just shutting down? And why not give all of their members and visitors a heads-up before the actual closing? It doesn't make any sense.
Renzatic on 20/9/2010 at 03:02
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
Seriously? You think whoever at GOG that runs the twitter account isn't in on it? Or that 24 hours after Suddenly they're in dire straits and need to change how they do business or shut down? If anything, the borderline schizophrenic change in tone on their twitter
proves that it's a stunt.
Considering it seems like they were bought out by a bigger company, it's very possible that the new guys could've gone in raising a shitstorm, forcing them to shut down for immediate changes. Once again unlikely, but...eh.
I do see where you're coming from, though. I just don't want to admit to what the evidence is pointing towards. It'd be about the most careless and unprofessional thing GOG could do just for the sake of some stupid revamp. A 24 hour notice for prolonged website maintenance would be understandable. As would some bleeding heart letter to the fans asking for support during financial difficulties. Pretty much anything with a little forewarning would've been nice. But like I said before, this WE'RE DOING GREAT UH OH IT IS OVER THANKS FOR SUPPORTING GOG KTHXBYE or is it thing just isn't a good idea if it's indeed what they're doing.
lost_soul on 20/9/2010 at 04:14
Well, this stinks! They were one of the last game vendors I actually supported and wanted to see succeed! Guess it is back to buying all my games used, to avoid supporting the publishers and having to pay a premium for older titles.
NOW WHY CAN'T I GET MY **** GAMES I PAID FOR?? Just kidding! I was smart enough to save them all locally. I am seriously kicking myself for not buying Blood 1+ all the expansions for $5.99 though. That was a heck of a deal. I was gonna do it as soon as I found the time to complete the used copy of Blood I picked up a few months before gog started selling it!
On a more positive note, all of my games magically still work. They didn't self-destruct, or fail to contact big brother in the process of spying on me, or anything! It is like I'm still in 1996!
Renzatic on 20/9/2010 at 04:37
What was so great about computers in 1996? You had to turn a hand crank for half an hour to get them to start. And what'd you get for all that effort? Nothing. There wasn't any porn on the internet yet, so why even bother?
And even if there were, you couldn't do anything about it, cuz your arm was too tired from turning that crank.
lost_soul on 20/9/2010 at 05:06
One thing we had in 1996: privacy. That feature of computing has pretty much died with the constant net connections we all have now. Even games are requiring them to play these days. Gog maintained this feature.
... and for the record, my 1996 computer had a big fat power switch that you had to physically move to get it to start (and shut down!). We had none of this fancy ACPI stuff.
Brian The Dog on 20/9/2010 at 07:20
Quote Posted by lost_soul
On a more positive note, all of my games magically still work. They didn't self-destruct, or fail to contact big brother in the process of spying on me, or anything! It is like I'm still in 1996!
This was why I supported them - being a smallish company, they were always likely to go bust sometime, but their games would still work (unlike some companies I could mention) :)
Oh well, I guess we find out today. As Renzatic says, it just doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it :erg:
Shadowcat on 20/9/2010 at 07:50
Dumb question (firstly because speculation seems like a bad idea, secondly because I still don't think this is all just a stunt, and thirdly because I could be flat-out wrong), but... is that favicon the same as is was before?
I know the logo is slightly different, but I'm sure they have loads of those sitting around. Changing the favicon as well seems excessive, though. The problem is that I don't remember for certain what it used to look like, but the current one just seems different to what ever it was.
This whole page may simply be using an old place-holder site template, though, logo and icon included. The source indicates it was written with Frontpage, so they obviously didn't repurpose their normal site code.
It still makes no sense. The only thing I can think of that would force such an abrupt closure is some kind of legal issue, but that page says they've been discussing it for "quite some time".
Matthew on 20/9/2010 at 09:16
Quote Posted by Renzatic
What was so great about computers in 1996?
What was great was that moderately hot girls asked me to fix their config.sys and autoexec.bat, that's what.
Thirith on 20/9/2010 at 10:04
That sounds deliciously dirty, Matthew... :ebil:
