I just saw Planescape: Torment is now offered. According to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/stolen-pixels/8148-Stolen-Pixels-229-The-Tearful-Goodbye it was some kind of stunt.
Good Old Games is owned by the Polish video game publisher CD Projekt.
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And a very stupid stunt, at that.
I thought it was a good stunt, it got them a heck of a lot of publicity as the news was on all the tech news sites.
It guaranteed that I would never buy anything from them ever again.
I was already planning to never buy anything from them again.
I don't see the big deal though. Every company has done something badly. Hell, whose forums are we on again?
Its a good stunt in the sense of sending commandos loaded with blanks to storm a national monument and take hostages and have the police come for several days before announcing that it was actualy a bit of fun. hahahahah... no.
I still don't understand this sentiment when it comes up. It's not like they started requiring a persistent internet connection or Steam.
Bad marketing move? Yes. Boycotting their games because of it though?
Some people don't like being decived or lied to. Trust is important to them.
Why would I want to support that kind of behavior, which is what giving that company your money does. I was marginally interested in GoG before. I'll not be shopping around there for awhile now. They're flakes, and I won't be sending people to their site either.
Does that make sense?
GoG didn't lie, they just worded things cleverly enough that people thought they were going out of business. What they really said was "GoG just could not continue to run as it was." "We will provide a way for everyone to download games until the end of time". I mean I thought it was pretty damned obvious it was a joke.. especially after they updated it a couple times. If every gaming website hadn't reported it as GoG going out of business, I may have never even thought that.
Honestly if you don't want to buy from GoG, you're just bitter because you got pranked and didn't see it coming. No where in their announcement did they say they were going out of business. They probably needed to take their servers/website down for a few days to do upgrades, they left a vaguely worded announcement on their website. Then the internet started saying they were going out of business. GoG responded with updates providing more vague hints of what was going on. If you're seriously upset about that, then the only problem here is your own ego.
Oh I am not upset. I would have to care a lot more about GoG to actually be upset. I am still not purchasing from them in the near future though.
Its not like they rick rolled everyone (never gonna give you up). A lot of people had serious worry about the whole thing. They knew what would happen, they were planning for that to blow up in the news to gain huge attention combo multiplier like a console game.
You are not purchasing? Again I must ask why. They didn't lie or deceive anyone. The internet deceived themselves. Maybe they should have been more specific, but it was the people on the internet who invented the lie that they were going out of business, not GoG. I have never bought any games from GoG, but this whole stunt has nothing to do with it. I just find the backlash GoG is getting to be hilarious and uncalled for. By the time of their 3rd update it was blindingly obvious that they weren't going out of business. I thought it was a good publicity stunt. I just don't get why people are bitter about it.
I don't know why you say you are asking people to tell you why when clearly you won't accept the answer s,and your resposne to those answers it to try label people with fun adjectives like "bitter" and "angry". It's not a real question, so I won't try and answer it.
Actually they did lie. They were running a sale at the time, and people who bought stuff suddenly lost access to it. They said it couldn't "continue as it was."
Then what happened? Exactly the same thing came back, only now it was "out of beta"? Bullshit. They weren't in "beta" while taking peoples money for product.
This was an incredibly poorly conceived marketing stunt that revealed them to be run by a bunch of amateurs. I've got zero interest in doing business with people like that.
He buddy, don't presume to tell me what to do with my money, and I won't presume to tell you what to do with yourself. You need to grow up.
Thanks for your time.
Ugg, a lot of pain in this thread.
Did no one seriously see it for what it was? It was very carefully worded to be both suggestive but vague. The fact that they were going to make a future announcement through Facebook and Twitter certainly hinted at the fact that it was a marketing stunt... And they technically were in beta, no matter how stable and polished their site was.
I'm not saying it wasn't in poor taste, or misleading. It was some pretty blatant attention-whoring. But nowhere did they lie, and I am more than a little surprised at just how offended some people seem to be. I certainly won't stop using their service. It is, by far, the best place to purchase older titles.
No.
They took down the site, which locked everyone who had bought things in the past from downloading. In that sort of a situation, you have an obligation to tell your existing customers the truth. If Impulse had to go down for 48 hours for some technical reason, Frogboy would give us an explanation and an apology, not some half-assed marketing stunt.
When you're running an internet service, you either treat outages as the serious impact to your customers that they are, or you're completely unprofessional. Pick one. GOG did.
I'm with the people who think that giving your money, or your PCI, to a company that has demontrated this kind of utter unprofessionalism is both stupid and potentially dangerous.
They offered a service that people paid to use, and they denied the use of it for for a time without warning or explanation; therefore some people are unwilling to use it and turn to better providers of the service. It is similar to say if a phone company suddenly had all phone lines die and only after it is fixed do they tell people that they had decided to replace some old lines. Now, providing game downloads may not be as important as being able to make and recieve phone calls, but both are examples of distasteful business practices. It is a black mark against their record and people will re-evaluate if they feel the the company in question is still better than the alternatives. And some people have decided the price, selection, and quality of GOG service is not high enough compared to other similar services such as Impulse to be worth putting up with stunts like this.
This. When service I pay for goes down, I expect to get at least apology, explanation of reasons for downtime and estimates to bring it back online. And since it was PLANNED downtime, there is no excuse for them not warning about it in advance.
Exactly. When you're providing a service that people are paying for, your customers have every right to expect some professionalism about things like outages.
Instead we get amateur hour at the local high school.
Eh, see it any way you will, then
I've never bought anything from GoG and I wasn't effected by the stunt so I have no emotional investment at all. But I have to say that the place where they crossed the line was taking down the site and not letting people have access to the product that they had payed for. At that point they decided that they were willing to hurt their customer base in order to make a more effective marketing stunt.
Now I'm not going to say that it was such a horrible act that I'd never buy from them. But it does cast them in a bad light and the people who are upset have every right to be.
Ya im one of those people who for some reason was pissed that it was a stunt.
I guess b/c it was done in such poor taste.
And the community made themselves heard, and GOG apology was even stupider. The inaudible monks.
but i dot support their idea. classic PC gaming, no DRM. $6.
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