Good Old Games Waves Goodbye
PrintGood Old Games, or GOG.com, the online portal for DRM-free copies of older games ported and sold on the cheap to run under Windows, has waved the white flag and closed up shop, at least for now.
"We have recently had to give serious thought to whether we could really keep GOG.com the way it is," a message on GOG.com's website reads. "We've debated it for quite some time and, unfortunately, we've decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form.
"We've very grateful for all support we've received from all of you in the past two years. Working on GOG.com was a great adventure for all of us and an unforgettable journey to the past, through the long and wonderful history of PC gaming."
What the future holds for GOG.com remains to be seen. In their parting note, the GOG.com team said that the closure doesn't mean the idea behind the site is closed forever, but didn't elaborate.
For those of you who previously purchased titles through GOG.com but may have since formatted your PC, the company said it will put in place a solution so that you can re-download them. Updates on this will be posted on GOG.com and on the company's Twitter and Facebook pages.
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isamuelson
September 20, 2010 at 7:00am
If DRM is coming, as long as it's like Steam, where it's linked to your account, no problem although I liked the completely DRM-free aspect of GOG.
Still, a Steam-like DRM allows you to run the games on ANY computer. Also, hopefully, you can play in offline mode like Steam allows (unless the game itself requires it). The only bad part is, if the company goes out of business.
I just hope the DRM-free aspect stays. Not sure why they feel they would need to implement it. Of course, with the court ruling that occurred a few weeks ago where reselling games is considered a violation of license agreements, who knows? Maybe an IP owner decided to come after GOG? Since GOG is part of CD Projekt, which is Polish, I wonder if this is what happened, who it was?
gothliciouz
September 20, 2010 at 6:46am
wtf this can't be truth they were just starting pretty well, i don't understand i thought everything was going so well.
spoonard
September 20, 2010 at 6:29am
I hope this isn't true. There has been a lot of talk on digg.com and reddit.com that this is some kind of PR stunt about them coming out of beta. Here is a link to the reddit.com thread about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dfzhe/rip_gogcom/
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