RIP Good Old Games
Submitted by Earok on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 10:12It looks like DRM-Free downloadable game retailer Good Old Games is closing down, ironically shortly after it was announced that downloadable PC game sales are outstripping physical ones for the first time in history.
Sad to see it go. The idea of having a completely DRM-Free downloadable game service was an admirable one. I suspect the lack of a client for the service may have contributed to it's downfall, in the age of Steam and the Apple App Store hardly anyone wants to manage installers anymore.
I admit to never have actually used the service, but I had been planning to buy a copy of Shogo: Mobile Armour Division from there for ages.
Edit - Damn it, this was all a publicity stunt. Definitely not buying that copy of Shogo from there now. Well.. maybe..
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I would have liked to check our their library.. Pitty the site is completely down now.
You'll get the opportunity to now.
They lied!
Funny - I actually found my old Shogo (along with the wonderfully made No one Lives Forever). Ah, memories of the awesomeness of hardware acceleration with a whopping 16MB video RAM! No to get Shogo to work, that's the question... I wonder where I get a nocd for NOLF ;)
PS: GOG seems to be running... are you sure they're getting derezzed?
Thanks for popping in Hots.
Turns out that the whole thing was a stunt, they feigned being shut down in order to grab some free publicity for their new business model.. or something.
I never owned NOLF but I did play the demo of it. I was really impressed by the 60s aesthetic and the way that the enemy guards would have interesting conversations that you could eavesdrop on.
My brother ended up purchasing from gog via me.. Turns out I had been with them for a year already. :S