well all I can say if it's only temporary & was planned ,it's pretty disgusting that they didn't plan on notifying their customers. After all without customers they can shut down completely.
After all they can send us emails every week about games for sale so they could of sent a bulk email to all registered users to explain the situation.
I even read a article in the daily telegraph here in australia, the last place I expected to read about gog.
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Online game store GOG.com, aka Good Old Games, has abruptly announced their closure, two years after launching. The brief message at their website is confusing, stating "GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form". Some are taking hope in the ambiguity of the wording, but a phrase like "We're closing down the service and putting this era behind us" sounds fairly final.
If this is the end of GOG.com, it will be a sad loss to the gaming community. I spoke to GOG.com staff member Lukasz Kukawski on Screen Play last year, and there were no hints of trouble back then. It seemed to be a business that was thriving in spite of conventional wisdom about DRM and piracy. If they are gone, their wonderful support of the community will be deeply missed.
They have promised more news in coming days, including some kind of solution for users to download their previously purchased games. Beyond that, there is little information avaialble apart from a promise that more news will be "coming soon".
The only obvious warning that GOG.com was in trouble was a comment on its Twitter feed two days ago: "Sometimes it's really hard being DRM-free... hard to keep things the way they are and keep management and publishers happy
" The wording of this comment and the ambiguity of the message on the website have led some to speculate that perhaps GOG.com is re-launching with DRM (digital rights management, or copy protection). This will be a disappointment to many fans, as one of GOG.com's primary features at launch was that all of its games are DRM-free.
Others are more cynical. The store's Facebook fanpage is rife with speculation, including a link to a Polish-language article which suggests the entire shutdown is a publicity stunt. Translated from Polish, it seems to be an email from GOG.com management to a shareholder, telling them that a message would be appearing on the site but that they should not panic when they see it. There are also multiple references to some kind of meeting or conference on Wednesday, where some crucial decisions may me made.
Some observers point to GOG.com's perpetual "beta" status, and suggest that this whole event is an ill-advised stunt to publicise the site's transition out of beta. If this is the case, then management are likely to be shocked by the backlash they suffer from the public. Many customers are complaining about being unable to download games they have just purchased and are demanding refunds. Others on the Facebook page are saying that if this proves to be a stunt, they will never trust GOG.com again.
All we know right for certain is that something weird is going on, but hopefully we will know more after the meeting on Wednesday. As a big fan of GOG.com, I can only hope for the best.
