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Old 20-09-2010, 11:07 PM   #21
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And some more, from NeoGAF.

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This'll be my last post here as frankly, you guys are all obsessed with the idea of this being a stunt that you can't see how fucked up this situation really is.

http://www.bankier.pl/inwestowanie/p...ormat=detailed

I'll post this again, as the trading value (Market Cap) has been ignored (even by me) up until now. According to this, Optimus (Who own CDP I can say with utmost certainty now), have a market value of less than $6million. Even with the recent lift in their share price this company is utterly worthless. The reason? Before they bought CDP, Optimus racked up some serious debt, and took on even more to buy CDP, this has left them in a major hole financially.

As stated above, last week Optimus sold 3.5million shares and has tried to re-jig the company to transfer their debt to something less unstable, this has triggered an EGM (For this Wednesday) which on it's own, would be unexciting. However, someone appears to have bought all the shares in one block and are using their new power to force Optimus to change their company strategy. This investor is at the moment, unknown but will be revealed at the company EGM.

My opinion is that this mystery investor has called for GOG to be totally changed, possibly to have DRM introduced and to change their business model completely. This leads me to believe the investor is a publisher, but I am not sure who, but there are signs that MAY be pointing to Atari SA, CD Projekt's long term publisher partner in Europe.
Future of the GOG is not looking very bright.
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Old 20-09-2010, 11:23 PM   #22
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He's not calculating something right, or misunderstood the page after putting it through Google Translate.
That's their market worth:
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Kapitalizacja 212 100 000 zł
As per http://www.pkobp.pl/index.php/id=waluty/section=ogol, 1 USD = 3,0079 PLN
212 100 000 PLN = 70 514 345 USD
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Old 21-09-2010, 12:41 AM   #23
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Damn! I was just to buy several games
I was exited 'cause those games worked in windows vista without problem and DRM-free... and very cheap.
What will happen to all the extra material that they offered with a game? We can get them from any other site?

Who can save us now?
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Old 21-09-2010, 07:05 AM   #24
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We should know in 48 hours what is going on. Press conference is scheduled for tommorow.

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Old 21-09-2010, 12:12 PM   #25
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If it's Atari Interactive who's behind buying the shares, I wouldn't be surprised. They've been arses for few years already now, especially after they got their grip on Bioware.
Money is power, and there's no one who is going to say anything against it, mostly because most don't really care. That means unfortunately that such dirty tricks as this one can be used to pursure own goals. Big Corporations ffs.
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Old 21-09-2010, 01:47 PM   #26
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2,0 will be more a steam type front end with some sort of DRM and maybe higher prices. I just think a negotiation fell apart because a publisher would not go for DRM and GOG saw the writing on the wall, that fewer and fewer titles would be signed as less publishers would allow no DRM.
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Old 21-09-2010, 10:35 PM   #27
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRvuKjissQ
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Old 22-09-2010, 12:48 AM   #28
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I was just going to post that fifth.

Interesting addition, really makes it seem like the out-of-beta announcement.

I really hope there's no Steam style program, I don't like Steam myself and would hate to see GOG take that route.

Will have to see what happens in a few hours time...

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Someone eagle-eyed over at GameBanshee noticed this: http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/9983...durs-gate.html

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Old 22-09-2010, 06:03 AM   #29
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Steam is okay, but the friends service goes down a bit too much. This was a rather shoddy way of going to GOG 2.0, but hopefully it'll stay up and running with a new coat of paint and Baldurs' Gate.
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Old 22-09-2010, 09:06 AM   #30
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Darn, it looks just like me playing Railroad Tycoon 2. I lay the tracks optimally, I micromanage my business well, I earn money, but I lose thanks to... stock market.

Fcuk you, corporatism!
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