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So what's your guyses ranking of digidistros? For a long while I've had 1) Steam 2) GOG 3) GamersGate 4) Impulse 5) Everything else... I guess GG moves up a spot now!  edit- but just GG, Impulse is still 3rd.
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I've found four more installers going through the random folders of my drive and old archive structures. I started comparing my receipts to what I have though and I'm missing Freespace 1 & 2 of all things  (Yeah yeah I know we'll supposedly be able to get them next week.) edit: final list of missing games: -Freespace 1 & 2 -Fallout Tactics -Duke: Manhattan Project -Outcast I never even downloaded Fallout Tactics and Outcast heh. Just hadn't gotten around to them. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Sep 19, 2010 |
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Sep 19, 2010 18:22
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I wonder if this isn't some sort of publicity stunt and they aren't planning to relaunch next week out of beta. Surely they wouldn't be that callous? But nothing else makes sense. 
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Sep 19, 2010 18:24
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:But there's one thing that makes this seem fishy. They just got Age of Wonders a few days ago, with the other two games coming soon. This isn't a decision you make overnight, this had to have been weeks or months in the making if true. So why would they announce games that are coming soon if they already knew they weren't ever going to be released? The only thing that could make this make sense to me is big problems at CD Projekt. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:26
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Ansob. posted:I wonder if this isn't some sort of publicity stunt and they aren't planning to relaunch next week out of beta. I don't think that making everyone actively dislike you and avoid using your service because it might suddenly shut down is a good way to get publicity.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:26
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Great, I accidently deleted all my installers a while back. While almost all my games are installed, I only have the instruction manuals still in their zips.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:28
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pyrotek posted:The only thing that could make this make sense to me is big problems at CD Projekt. I guess we'll find out soon enough. from their site, they recently (may that is) had to cut their hungarian and czech studios. really, I only got Fallout 1 and 2 from them, but I'm more worried about the witcher 2.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:29
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Wow, good thing I just downloaded all 60(!) games I bought from them a week ago. edit: thanks AxeManiac for making me paranoid enough to redownload all my stuff. Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Sep 19, 2010 |
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Sep 19, 2010 18:33
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This sucks balls!
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Sep 19, 2010 18:35
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Bah, this is what I get for constantly postponing archiving all the games I bought.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:37
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Party Plane Jones posted:Wow, good thing I just downloaded all 60(!) games I bought from them a week ago. The Machine posted:So what's your guyses ranking of digidistros? In my mind Steam and GOG had been tied for first place for a while now. Impulse was third, but generally only for things not found on Steam or GOG at all. (Stardock games, Jets N Guns) Everyone else was mostly a distant 'whatever,' with the exception of indie games bought directly from their makers.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:40
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Well, that sucks. It's kinda weird that I would be openly worrying about GoG not doing well for the past month but at no point considered downloading backup copies. I lot of the games I actually don't care if I lose as they were impulse purchases that I got bored with 10 minutes after the nostalgia wore off. But games like Divine Divinity - that actually had some improvements like official widescreen support added on - are the ones I wished I grabbed. Despite their promises, we're talking about a company clearly with financial problems so taking a gigantic hit to their bandwidth costs on something that now isn't providing any income seems like an unlikely move. I'ld love to be proven wrong though. It'll suck if The Witcher 2 gets canned as well. What a depressing morale if a company that goes out of it's way to appease fans and customers ends up bankrupt, regardless of the reasons behind it. kuddles fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Sep 19, 2010 |
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Sep 19, 2010 18:40
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kuddles posted:Well, that sucks. It's kinda weird that I would be openly worrying about GoG not doing well for the past month but at no point considered downloading backup copies. I lot of the games I actually don't care if I lose as they were impulse purchases that I got bored with 10 minutes after the nostalgia wore off. But games like Divine Divinity - that actually had some improvements like official widescreen support added on - are the ones I wished I grabbed. Well, what's their ToS? I wouldn't be surprised if the ToS says they have to give notice before severing the service, and the price of lawsuits would be higher than the bandwith hit.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:43
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I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad that I pulled the trigger on getting that Might & Magic collection two days ago.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:43
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I'm not sure how financial issues could be the issue. They could probably stay afloat with just Fallout 1 and 2 for christ's sake.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:43
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The Machine posted:I'm not sure how financial issues could be the issue. They could probably stay afloat with just Fallout 1 and 2 for christ's sake. Games that weren't very successful on initial release? Unlikely.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:51
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Centipeed posted:So, GOG.com is shutting down. That really sucks.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:51
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Well this feels bad.  I also lack quite a few of my installers but more than that I'm really disappointed because I honestly wasn't expecting an end like this ever. Please let this be temporary.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:51
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Glad I re-downloaded and installed Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Complete before they closed. I didn't save the installer, though.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:53
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I am very, very glad that I never delete anything. But I still hope that they enable downloads again, or at best, resurrect from the dead. Apparently they've patched some games since their initial release on GOG, and a lot of my installers are from 2008-2009.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:54
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what the gently caress
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Sep 19, 2010 18:55
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Well, what's their ToS? I wouldn't be surprised if the ToS says they have to give notice before severing the service, and the price of lawsuits would be higher than the bandwith hit.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:56
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Nigh 30ish games I need to download...plus the supplemental stuff. Not to mention there was a lot of neat stuff afoot in their forums. One of the worst Sunday's in recent memory. I really hope they can at least successfully wrangle this chance to download later this coming week or whatever. This sucks so much.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:57
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Jesus loving Christ, talk about depressing news. GOG.com was god-drat amazing, even if poo poo didn't work sometimes, and most of the times it did. I mean come on, they gave us cheap One Unit Whole Blood, which was next to impossible to find legitimately. Plus, a working copy of Outcast! loving poo poo. I need to get some of those clients/installers...
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Sep 19, 2010 18:57
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I really thought you guys were just being overreactionary children like games is always full of. This is the worst thing to be right about.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:57
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I visited their site all the time to look at the beautiful way they presented the games. And I probably bought 40 or so games. I thought it was too good to be true with no DRM and they would die any month but when they landed the Activision deal I assumed they must be doing decently enough. Maybe they planned on selling more copies of King's Quest and Space Quest not knowing they had been sold pretty recently on Steam for 1/4 the price? It really saddens me that they never got to the Quest for Glory, Thief, or the rest of the Journeyman Project games. I don't see why they wouldn't let people have one last chance to actually BUY the games not just redownload them. I hadn't quite made up my mind on King's Quest VII/VIII or Age of Wonders but I'd want them both now!
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Sep 19, 2010 18:58
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orborborb posted:
For real, if they opened up for business for one more day I'd probably buy half the games on the site. I also have some serious downloading to do. I didn't save any of the installers.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:02
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I was just about to buy Age of Wonders and Second Sight, too. I actually had most of my installers downloaded at one point, but I deleted them because I needed the space. I have most of the games I bought installed, but I still needed to grab some of the supplemental materials. This blows St. Bernards.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:02
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Whew, found my GOG archive. I think I'm mostly upset because a) this obviously is a fly-by-night trigger-pull by the parent company with no regard for the people who work at GOG, and an outright disdain for the actual customers, and b) this is basically going to confirm any retarded superstitions that industry execs have about ditching DRM on older games. And, of course, I no longer have an online store that I like. I wonder if GOG-specific torrents are going to start showing up on the web.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:03
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Okay if this is true it's a stupid stunt http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23418875&postcount=240 quote:People, relax. It's just a marketing stunt. Worse one ever. I don't know who at CDP thought this was a good idea to drop the beta and go final in such manner, but he's a moron.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:06
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Well, if they really ARE shutting down, surely it wouldn't be wrong to distribute the DRM-free files, right? 
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Sep 19, 2010 19:08
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gently caress you GoG. If true that's a horrible prank.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:08
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Not to mention that old games actually worked on GoG. Never got Arx Fatalis on Steam to work worth a drat but the one from GoG ran beautifully. Edit: Oh, gently caress those guys. This might be the first time I actually feel like an apology is warranted.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:08
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The sure way to make people want to give money to you is to make yourselves look like inept assholes. The sure way to make people want to give money to publishers is to set them up as villains. Doubly so when you keep in mind that most likely $0 is going to any developers who made these games, seeing as most of them don't exist anymore, often because the publishers put them out of business. If this is marketing, it's the worst marketing in history.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:09
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Honest Thief posted:Okay if this is true it's a stupid stunt I'm really not buying that. And if it IS true, then even with the site restored, I'd be very hesitant to buy anything from them for the forseeable future.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:10
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Well, their wording is pretty dodgy in the letter...I hope that's true. Also I didn't know CD Projekt had anything to do with GOG. Huh.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:12
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Dominic White posted:I'm really not buying that. And if it IS true, then even with the site restored, I'd be very hesitant to buy anything from them for the forseeable future. Same here. I would just download what I bought and leave.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:12
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Honest Thief posted:Okay if this is true it's a stupid stunt Well, something weird is going on - they discuss it more at the next page in that thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407829&page=6 Maybe the "end of the beta" actually means "end of DRM free games" too, if their new shareholders don't like the idea.
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Sep 19, 2010 19:12
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"Date of conference is about 22th of September, early evening. Information shortly on GOG.com, but please do not panic after seeing information presented there." Looks like a bad marketing stunt to me, probably just updating gog out of beta and they just put up that bad joke on the mainpage while they upgrade the servers.
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One thing bothers me : why would they introduce a new logo (both the "gog.com" and the little "G") with the announcement of them going under ?
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