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The only thing that disappoints me about this whole thing is that nothing is on sale for the big opening. Hopefully they're just waiting for the weekend. 
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They should really give their members a free game for all that stuff they pulled off. I just really want a free game, actually.
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Sep 23, 2010 13:44
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It blew up the first time I tried to sign on, but it's working now (8:48am EST).
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Sep 23, 2010 13:48
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The MSJ posted:They should really give their members a free game for all that stuff they pulled off.
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Sep 23, 2010 13:48
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There doesn't seem to be any rage on the forum. Either the haters can't be bothered or the GOG guys are doing more deleting than Minitrue.
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Sep 23, 2010 13:48
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Gashroom posted:MOO3 for everyone! That would actually be worse than the pretend shutdown.
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Sep 23, 2010 13:49
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BiggerJ posted:There doesn't seem to be any rage on the forum. Either the haters can't be bothered or the GOG guys are doing more deleting than Minitrue. The GoG community has always been friendly to a fault. This is especially obvious in their ratings for games unfortunately - even the worst dross tends to get 3 stars at the least.
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Sep 23, 2010 13:52
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al-azad posted:I don't know about Eye of the Beholder because it was developed by Westwood who's now owned by EA. Baldur's Gate was developed by Bioware who is now owned by EA, so who knows? Maybe we'll all be lucky and the rights for the games revert to the D&D owner after they expire for the publisher.
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Sep 23, 2010 13:56
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Osmosisch posted:The GoG community has always been friendly to a fault. This is especially obvious in their ratings for games unfortunately - even the worst dross tends to get 3 stars at the least. Is that really any different to the general games media?
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Sep 23, 2010 13:58
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pyrotek posted:Baldur's Gate was developed by Bioware who is now owned by EA, so who knows? Maybe we'll all be lucky and the rights for the games revert to the D&D owner after they expire for the publisher. That's my line of thinking as well. At the very least, I'm sure Bioware could serve as a decent advocate for GoG when trying to get EA to see the light. Yes I know that there is much more to it than that, but it has to start somewhere before the lawyers get involved.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:02
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Alchenar posted:Is that really any different to the general games media? I'm not sure where you're going with this, unless you're trying to say that the gaming public deserves the quality of games criticism that they get.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:03
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Alchenar posted:That would actually be worse than the pretend shutdown. But better than giving everyone Lionheart.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:09
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Goddamnit goons, stop hammering the site. I want to login and buy Baldurs Gate. 
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Sep 23, 2010 14:14
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"Sorry everyone for the delay in the launch of the new website. Our servers, even thou we've augmented their number, just didn't manage to support the huge interest from your side. We're adding more servers as we speak and everything should start improving. Enjoy the new website, all the features and the newelly released Baldur's Gate."
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Sep 23, 2010 14:14
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PR Ploy Status: EFFECTIVE
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Sep 23, 2010 14:17
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A wild GOG appears. It uses PR-feign death. It's super effective!
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Sep 23, 2010 14:19
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 http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/lionheart_legacy_of_the_crusader the blurb on the Lionheart page posted:What's great about it: Apparently, the disadvantage of having a tester write the blurbs is that they're now going to contain more bare-faced lies than the PR ones we had before.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:30
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It took 15 minutes and a lot of effort to get rid of that pesky 10 dollars, but it was worth it. New thread title is very fitting.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:31
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God damned Polish people made me buy Baldur's Gate 1 again. 
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Sep 23, 2010 14:31
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Hope you guys research some BG mods. Playing BG using the BG2 engine is 1000x better.
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GreenNight posted:Hope you guys research some BG mods. Playing BG using the BG2 engine is 1000x better. They won't be able to do that unless they own BG2, though. Note to people buying BG1: there's a BG2 thread here but it's basically turned into the Infinity Engine thread, so you'll probably get some of your questions answered if you post there (just make sure to mention it's BG1 and you don't have BG2 and can't install tutu).
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Sep 23, 2010 14:38
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I haven't finished it (yet), but Lionheart really isn't that bad assuming you patched it.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:39
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I wonder how many people are just hammering the page to grab their entire catalog they already purchased. That's not really because the demand for your awesome service is too great.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:40
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GreenNight posted:Hope you guys research some BG mods. Playing BG using the BG2 engine is 1000x better. Yeah, I wouldn't even try to play BG without using Tutu anymore. Honestly, if you haven't played BG before, you should probably wait until they release BG2 before you play the first just so you can use Tutu. Also, you definitely want to grab the widescreen mod.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:40
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My favorite memories was playing BG, then the expansion, then importing my characters into BG2 and then playing the BG2 expansion. Same char for 200+ hours? gently caress yes.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:45
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Hemish posted:I wonder how many people are just hammering the page to grab their entire catalog they already purchased. That's not really because the demand for your awesome service is too great. This doesn't even make sense.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:49
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Dissapointed Owl posted:This doesn't even make sense. They're saying that the rush isn't new people buying new games or even old people buying new games, but that it's all or mostly old people downloading old games.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:50
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Thank god because I would be pretty internet angry if people were buying Baldur's Gate.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:52
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Ansob. posted:
Hey, it's not like they're ever gonna come out and say "This game that we are trying to sell you is kind of shite, to be honest", so if they need marketing fluff it may as well be written by someone who actually believes it.
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Sep 23, 2010 14:58
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Drox posted:They're saying that the rush isn't new people buying new games or even old people buying new games, but that it's all or mostly old people downloading old games. I know, time is pressing because of how they... aren't... shutting down... anymore...
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Sep 23, 2010 15:00
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Drox posted:They're saying that the rush isn't new people buying new games or even old people buying new games, but that it's all or mostly old people downloading old games. That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm just trying to say that they shouldn't slap themselves on the back looking at the huge numbers since most of the traffic must be people who got scared and are trying to backup their whole collection instead of a legitimate business traffic. Baldur's Gate is great but I have trouble imagining the website is melting because of that one game or that 50 000 members decided to buy a bunch of games they had in their wish lists. English isn't my first language so I'm sorry if I sometimes look retarted. Dissapointed Owl posted:I know, time is pressing because of how they... aren't... shutting down... anymore... We're talking about gamers here. Just look at this thread, we still have people pissed at the prank even though GoG is back without losing their DRM policy.
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Sep 23, 2010 15:00
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Drox posted:They're saying that the rush isn't new people buying new games or even old people buying new games, but that it's all or mostly old people downloading old games. Yeah, but if it's over 6x their old traffic record, at least a good chunk of that has to come from new people, right?
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Sep 23, 2010 15:01
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Hemish posted:That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm just trying to say that they shouldn't slap themselves on the back looking at the huge numbers since most of the traffic must be people who got scared and are trying to backup their whole collection instead of a legitimate business traffic. Your English is just fine and perfectly understandable. 
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Sep 23, 2010 15:03
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Goddammit, I just spent a bunch of money this week on Telltale's Adventure Bundle and the Indie Mega Bundle and now GoG starts to release loving Infinity Engine games. I'm gonna be broke by the end of the month.  BG1 has a special place in my heart as the game that first got me into PC gaming when I was 13. I played that mofo on a 333 MHz Celeron with a 10(?)GB HDD and software rendering.  Now I can finally retire that scratched-up 5-disc set in the giant-rear end cardboard sleeve.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Yeah, but if it's over 6x their old traffic record, at least a good chunk of that has to come from new people, right? Maybe not. Just think about the "old" members before the shutdown. Most of us would download a game when we needed it. You could have a few people coming to grab their whole library. New members coming in, etc... At launch today we have old members pissed who wants to download their whole games and will never come back, old paranoid members grabbing everything just in case even if they're staying, new members who got attracted to GoG with this stunt, old and new members coming in for Baldur's Gate and everyone else who just wants to check the new page layout. What would be interesting to know is the percentages of the total traffic right now taken by those categories.
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Sep 23, 2010 15:06
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GOG knows what their customers really care about - staring at a virtual shelf full of all their games. There's a new "matte black" option if you disliked the wood shelf for some reason.
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Sep 23, 2010 15:06
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Downloading BG1 now. 
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Sep 23, 2010 15:08
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Well, after being in a full state of panic, now that I know all my purchases are safe and sound, I can go back to my original routine of never downloading or playing any of them.
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pyrotek posted:Yeah, I wouldn't even try to play BG without using Tutu anymore. Honestly, if you haven't played BG before, you should probably wait until they release BG2 before you play the first just so you can use Tutu.
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Rascyc posted:Yeah, this is the source of my main disappointment. It's tough replaying BG1 unless you're seriously into it, so if you're only going to give BG1 a single playthrough then do yourself a favor and wait for BG2 so you can apply the Tutu mod. The only reason that I am thinking about going BG1 is that I've had way too many tutu games ruined by the Beregost bug. It just really sucks losing all that time. Unless there's some way to fix it now. The best way I know is to just never go to Beregost.
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