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[Mutay]

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?

[bobson]

We should know in 48 hours what is going on. Press conference is scheduled for tommorow.

LINK

[tomimt]

If that's just a marketing stunt, then it's not cool at all.

[Frodo]

If this *is* a publicity stunt, it's hardly likely to get them any new customers.

[Panthro]

New news:
Got this on twitter from @GOGcom: "Please check http://www.gog.com/ for a small update"
On the website they have an update:
UPDATE 20.09.2010
First of all, we apologize everyone for the whole situation and closing GOG.com. We do understand the timing for taking down the site caused confusion and many users didn't manage to download all their games. Unfortunately we had to close the service due to business and technical reasons.
At the same time we guarantee that every user who bought any game on GOG.com will be able to download all their games with bonus materials, DRM-free and as many times as they need starting this Thursday.
The official statement from GOG.com's management concerning the ongoing events is planned on Wednesday. If you want to receive further information about GOG.com, please send an email to update_media@gog.com if you're a media representative or to update_users@gog.com if you're a user without a GOG account.
Two days to wait until we get answers...

[TheChosen]

And some more, from NeoGAF.

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.

[The Fifth Horseman]

He's not calculating something right, or misunderstood the page after putting it through Google Translate.
That's their market worth:

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

[Scatty]

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.

[Elwing]

Such a pity - Never bought any games from them and I regret it now, nothing last forever folks!
It was an indeed good contribution to our beloved old game scene!
Hope they can come back somehow with another formula, like stated on their twitter...

EDIT: indeed, reading all the posts (as I should before posting! hehe) - is all bad publicity, good publicity? Hope they don't sell out, the games and their week-end discount were pretty awesome and cheap... Oh well...

[UnconformistSheep]

I never heard of GOG.com before...

For the benefit of anyone in my position, here's what I've gathered about them: this was a Polish company that would tweak old games to make them run on modern systems, sometimes with the help of emulators like DosBox or Scummvm. They didn't use DRM (ie. restrictions on how many copies you could make of the games).

Couldn't find a copy of their catalog though. Out of curiosity, someone please list a few games they delivered and that you couldn't be run otherwise. Also, what "modern systems" did they support: not Ubuntu I suppose? :-(