Comments on: So, GOG Gets No Strike 2?

By: Juuso

Juuso — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:20:20 +0000

3-4 strikes, damn you :)

By: MrPhil

MrPhil — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:36:30 +0000

People REALLY don’t like it when you play on their sympathies. It makes you feel manipulated. I’ve never used GOG so this was my first exposure to them, and frankly, judgmental or not, I’m probably a lost customer at this point.

By: Tobias Scheuer

Tobias Scheuer — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:35:39 +0000

I’m a gog customer and actually bought a lot of their games. They have a lot of those good old games, you know…

About the stunt, I’m somewhat mixed. At first I was sad that I wouldn’t be able to buy more games from them, but as I’m always immediately downloading and storing stuff securely at home, I didn’t feel I had lost anything. Then it became obvious that it’s a stunt… which makes painfully clear, that storing data in the cloud might not be as secure as you might wish it is.

In summary, this created a lot of commotion and pulled attention, which is what marketing actually is all about. Well done, in that respect. Now let’s hope they continue providing good old games, keep it at not including any DRM, and that they get more new customers than they lose from this PR action.

By: Leroy 'The 1nteger' Frederick

Leroy 'The 1nteger' Frederick — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:55:47 +0000

Agreed, I’m just glad there not gone! I look forward to buying more great games there soon! :)

By: Jay K.

Jay K. — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:28:07 +0000

Actually, it’s 3 strikes and then you’re out,

But yeah. I mean, I am glad they’re still around, because now I can actually buy some stuff from them. Maybe that was the point, motivate those procrastinators who hadn’t yet bought something to do so, since next time they “go out of business”, it might be real.

By: lonestarr

lonestarr — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:03:19 +0000

I’m not sure it was a smart move. I’m not a GOG customer, and I doubt I will be one in the future since I don’t know how much “truth” there is on that, and how far I can trust them from now. I always expect a company to say the truth to its customers, especially when it sells on Internet, where everything can be said in the air with no other real physical contacts. I would have much appreciated a direct-from-the-heart announcement like “we are about to close, if you like GOG and what we represent please help us to keep GOG alive, buy some games, and tell your friends to do so”.
And they could have said it in a funny/innovative way, remember this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon_%28magazine%29

By: NattyBumppo

NattyBumppo — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:00:30 +0000

In baseball you’re out after 3 strikes, not 4… :op

By: Lumooja

Lumooja — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:11:48 +0000

I think it was good marketing, since everyone was talking about it. It doesn’t actually matter how dirty your marketing is, if it gets people’s attention.

That pays back millions of times more, and people forget about the dirtyness in a few days anyway, but they remember and and now aware of gog much more than ever before.

I once saw gog earlier, but now I will always remember it and that makes me also go to their site and buy stuff.

By: Nadeem Rasool

Nadeem Rasool — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:18:44 +0000

Here Here, good posting Juuso, it is exactly what I was thinking. The way they went about it was bad, but you got to admit, it made headlines in the gaming world. Prob this is the only time where we as users see how popular GOG really is, and what a market there is for old games so in a way good for them on doing this. I saw their revival video, and it is true that in the olden days, developers pulled stunts like ID software giving animal organs to a magazine to promote Doom (that was funny but shocking).

Lets hope GOG is always around. Also lets hope that CD Project (the owner) now concetrate on Witcher2 ;-)