GOG says they were just kidding.

Good Old Games has decided that their shutdown was just a joke, and will be up and running and out of beta soon.  “We are working hard to provide users with much fun, so do expect some great surprises until Christmas.”  What’s their next joke going to be, installing a trojan that fries my motherboard?  No thanks!

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8 Responses to “GOG says they were just kidding.”

  1. odiv 23. Sep, 2010 at 2:34 am #

    It turns out the games were safe in a box in the garage the whole time!

  2. Grither 23. Sep, 2010 at 2:38 am #

    “Hey guys, we were just kidding, y’all can come back now! Guys? …hello??”

    Though I suppose what I’ve done here only helps to reinforce the “any press is good press” idea if people hadn’t previously heard of GOG…

    Personally, I think I only ever bought one or two games from them… but now I’m gonna go for Steam, even if it’s $5 more. (unless it’s $5 vs free, obviously!)

  3. odiv 23. Sep, 2010 at 2:47 am #

    I’m a customer of theirs and will continue to be a customer. I didn’t think this was a great PR move, but I’m not going to hold it against them. I wouldn’t have downloaded any games this week anyway.

    For me, this just underlines the importance of backing up my GoG installers. The lack of DRM is where GoG shines and when they eventually do shut down, get bought out or whatever then all the games I have will still work.

  4. stavrosthewonderchicken 23. Sep, 2010 at 10:35 am #

    Utterly, spectacularly, mind-bogglingly stupid. I’ve never bought anything from them and probably never will (no, definitely never will now), but if this really was a stunt and not a last-minute reversal, this is Bad Marketing on a previously unreached level, except maybe by Microsoft.

    Stupidity makes me angry. This stunt makes me so angry I want to track down whatever dimwit was responsible and slap him or her right in the goddamned chops, metaphorically at least.

    Destroy your brand, undermine customer confidence, make yourselves look marginal and uncertain, annoy your customers and make certain that no new customers will show up? Yeah, that sounds like a good way to generate some buzz, you fucking cretins.

    RARRR! *stomps off, muttering*

  5. Chris Hansen 24. Sep, 2010 at 2:45 am #

    I feel I must give me three eggs (short eggs) on this one. I thought it was really rather excellent. And not stupid even remotely.
    *rephrase*
    Meh. I thought it was funny. And it certainly brightened my day.
    So there.

    • Walter Mitty 24. Sep, 2010 at 1:19 pm #

      Ultimately it was a PR ploy gone bad. In marketing, pissing your customer base off is bad. They pissed off the customer base – so, unless they set out to do that, then it failed as a PR ploy. Disastrously. I mean, people are already saying they’ll never buy anything from them.

      Anyway. Launching a new business model/ website/ etc. can be done in lots of ways. “Psyche!” isn’t really a great way to go about it.

      • Chris Hansen 25. Sep, 2010 at 2:19 am #

        They gained a customer in me. I haven’t bought from them before. Now I have.
        But disagreeing is splendid, so we’ll carry on disagreeing anyway.
        *salute*

  6. joedan 24. Sep, 2010 at 10:26 am #

    Mind-bogglingly stupid, indeed. I’m never going to buy from these guys.