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Very legit, but they lost a lot of goodwill from me when they shut down their website for several days and announced they were going out of business. It turned
by rm999 14y ago
Very legit, but they lost a lot of goodwill from me when they shut down their website for several days and announced they were going out of business. It turned out it was all a glorified prank/PR stunt; the whole time all I could think was "great, yet another cloud service where I can lose all my purchases".
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/19/2250218/DRM-Free-Games-Site-GOGcom-Gone http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/19/2250218/DRM-Free-Ga...
That said it's a great service and I've started buying from them again. Many (most?) of their games are just dos executables wrapped around dosbox, but what's nice is they get the licenses and sell the games cheap. It's also nice that many of the games are cross-platform.
- TillE 14y agoYeah, that was a really shitty stunt. Especially because, for a few days, you couldn't download any of the games you'd bought. What annoys me most is that it worked. They got a ton of attention for it, and pretty much everyone just forgot about their poor behavior. And now they've grown to a point where they're impossible to avoid if you want to buy older games. I don't harbor a grudge towards them anymore, but it does depress me that this kind of lying is so effective and consequence-free.