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[StrangeCase]

It's usually a bad thing if your marketing stunts make customers feel jerked around.

 

[Elzair]

Seriously, you guys need to fucking chill. It was a lulzy stunt, and now it is over. As Darth Roxor said, chillax.

 

[deus101]

And they apologize... sort of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNd4qbNTf8

NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

BRING ON THE CILICE BELTS!!

 

[SuicideBunny]

it's not like they wanted to put ads on graves, have people tattooed with them or offered money for naming children after game characters....

 

[Brother None]

Yeah, it's not like they murdered puppies.

Pointless excuses are pointless. Digital download is a sales service. That's about trust. If people feel they can't trust GOG anymore, any amount of people, that's screwed up.

 

[Darth Roxor]

They can't trust them anymore...

...because nothing has changed.

 

[Brother None]

*sighs* I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

 

[Darth Roxor]

*sighs* I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

I know perfectly fine what you mean, but goddamn, you can't tell me that all those superraging reactions aren't exaggerated as shit.

 

[FeelTheRads]

So, if basically nothing has changed then why the whole "we can't continue like this" drama?

 

[mindx2]

Relax... take a deep breath... nothing has changed.

If you use GOG in the first place your using it because it has no stupid DRM (you know, the no internet activation or copy protection thing needed). You should be downloading and burning your own disk anyway just in case ITZ happens and GOG or the Internet fails.

They generated the buzz they needed. Remember children, any publicity (good or bad) is good publicity.

I will have no problem using them in the future

 

[asper]

Apparently after selling abandonware with scene cracks and a dosbox config they thought they can get away with anything.

 

[BethesdaLove]

Apparently after selling abandonware with scene cracks and a dosbox config they thought they can get away with anything.

 

[Metro]

People are overreacting. That said, the guys at CD Projekt/GoG have always trended towards annoyingly stupid humor and love taking backhanded shots at Steam which is hilarious because they have no qualms selling Witcher through it. More likely than not the gist of the stunt was yet another veiled shot at Steam in that it asks 'where would you be if your digital distribution website shut down' -- meanwhile GoG gives you the ability to download any game and store it on your own physical backup. So, yeah, they're pandering to their hardcore users, i.e., the people that own 40+ titles and have an anti-DRM fetish.

Hooray, you're DRM free... that's not exceedingly hard to do when you're offering dosboxed warez that aren't worth slapping DRM on in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I own about four or five titles on GoG, mostly for convenience sake and never have I paid even their full prices (as their price points are often ludicrous given what they offer) but they either need to get over themselves or actually offer something like oh... say... Witcher 2 DRM free (which I highly doubt they will) otherwise they are just hypocrites pandering to the anti-DRM fetish crowd.

 

[commie]

Apparently after selling abandonware with scene cracks and a dosbox config they thought they can get away with anything.

Westerners are just jealous that they didn't think of it first.

 

[thesheeep]

*sighs* I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

I know perfectly fine what you mean, but goddamn, you can't tell me that all those superraging reactions aren't exaggerated as shit.

I'm with Darth Roxor on this one.
Seriously, as I wrote in another thread, we all know that everyone will keep on using GOG, at least everyone who used it before. And because of that stunt, most likely even more will come.
Nobody can seriously be butthurt enough to stop using GOG

Some will rage, but even those will come back. Plus they get a better service now.

 

[deuxhero]

Hmm, to get BG up do they only need to deal with Atari, or EA as well?

 

[mindx2]

Hmm, to get BG up do they only need to deal with Atari, or EA as well?

I'm curious about this as well. How is the D&D license "hell" being worked out?

 

[Shannow]

:/ Well, I guess it's not too tough on me that GOG died. I've already purchased and secured all the games that interested me there. Still sad that such a charming business model wasn't able to survive in today's corporate hell.

Rest in peace, GOG

 

[deuxhero]

Hmm, to get BG up do they only need to deal with Atari, or EA as well?

I'm curious about this as well. How is the D&D license "hell" being worked out?

I meant more that EA owns Bioware than that the own the D&D license. Though that is also a valid point.

 

[Brother None]

Hmm, to get BG up do they only need to deal with Atari, or EA as well?

Atari and Interplay. BioWare doesn't have any rights to Baldur's Gate, I wouldn't think, it's just the developer. Developers have no rights

EDIT: wait no Interplay gave back their rights to Atari in a deal, forgot about that. I guess Atari/WotC is the main person you have to deal with, tho the troubles between those two makes it a pain in the ass.

 

[Silellak]

:/ Well, I guess it's not too tough on me that GOG died. I've already purchased and secured all the games that interested me there. Still sad that such a charming business model wasn't able to survive in today's corporate hell.

Rest in peace, GOG

Uh hi, welcome to the thread. Did you check the title when you came in?

 

[deus101]

still...

love to the Warzava pact countries.

 

[Excidium]

Hmm, to get BG up do they only need to deal with Atari, or EA as well?

Atari and Interplay. BioWare doesn't have any rights to Baldur's Gate, I wouldn't think, it's just the developer. Developers have no rights

EDIT: wait no Interplay gave back their rights to Atari in a deal, forgot about that. I guess Atari/WotC is the main person you have to deal with, tho the troubles between those two makes it a pain in the ass.

That's correct, Atari owns all rights for D&D Video games. NWN and BG series included.

 

[ChristofferC]

Stupid. That is all.

 

[Excidium]

I never bought anything from gog, but I guess that whole marketing stunt is working pretty favorably for them, as it's the current talk on a lot of gaming boards.

Bad publicity is publicity anyway, right?