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    Good Old Games closing...and re-opening! The buggers :(

    Hey chaps, i've just been looking in to a bit of a hoo-ha about the (supposed) closure of GOG.com, which after about 24 hours or so transpired to be a marketing 'calculation' on their part to generate internet chat, prior to a new re-opening (which BTW is in around 1 hour from this post).
    Specifically they apparently claimed on their website that they were unable to continue in their current form, thanked their customers blah blah blah... and basically implied that they were shutting down due to a lack of interest.
    On reading about this marketing stunt, i turned to Hexus to read more, and did a bit of a hunt to get...not very far. Has no-one else reported this? Or are people deliberately avoiding the topic, so as to avoid the generation of interest (which was clearly GOGs desired intent)?

    Now, i quite like what they do as a service provider, but I also like what Steam does (superficially similar but mostly different markets and different attitudes). This issue has left me feeling a little bit manipulated, however I get it that they wouldn't have the cash to do a full marketing splash, so i'm getting over that.

    Anyone else have any thoughts?

    BTW I also get that almost by definition I am again doing their marketing for them. For the record, not my direct intention, but it's kind of hard to talk about a topic like this if you don't name names.
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    Re: Good Old Games closing...and re-opening! The buggers :(

    It's a cheap marketing trick, make no mistake. One that doesn't inspire confidence in the service in my view. I've used GOG before (and been pleased with the service), but generally I find the games on offer a bit limited. I suspect publishers are not keen on the DRM free part.

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    Re: Good Old Games closing...and re-opening! The buggers :(

    Its the same tactic used everywhere though, any publicity is good publicity when it serves its intended purpose.

    The one that always makes me laugh is Opera, the web browser not the warbling tubsters.

    Opera are always "complaining" or making some comment about how things are not equal etc, and unsurprisingly they have 2% of the browser share.

    Obviously IE has a huge chunk due to it being on every copy of Windows, but you dont see Firefox whining, they paid for advertising and actively got the word around that they were "the new browser to use".

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    Re: Good Old Games closing...and re-opening! The buggers :(

    I do remember mentioning this news in some other thread but anyway I suppose its good news???

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    Re: Good Old Games closing...and re-opening! The buggers :(

    Timer hit 0 a while back, page is now blank so not a relaunch I was expecting xD

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    Re: Good Old Games closing...and re-opening! The buggers :(

    I thought it was quite clever if not being ideal. I think it shows the guys running it have a bit of a sence of humour.
    It's re-launching with some big releases. Hopefully there'll be alot more to choose from.

    The service is quite good, and if there's good games on it i'll use it again.

    Edit* It's back up now btw.

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    Re: Good Old Games closing...and re-opening! The buggers :(

    I use GOG now and again..not too sure of this I like marketing trick though.

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