Good Old Games Is Now GOG.com
Well, okay, they already were GOG.com, but now they have officially rebranded, dropping the “Good Old Games” moniker entirely.
Bigger
Year after year we’re getting bigger and so our service needs to adjust. Bigger means more users, and therefore more website features, more social interaction, more customer love. Bigger means AAA new and newer titles and more partners — and especially developers! — signed every month. Bigger means a mix of the classic titles that you’ve come to know and love from GOG.com and newer with the kind of great gameplay that makes them feel like instant classics.Fresher
GOG.com does not need a brand-new start. We’re doing great and hundreds of thousands of you agree that the road we’ve taken is the right one for the industry to follow. However, spring is nearby, and a little cleaning to spruce up the place is never amiss. Fresher GOG.com means changes to the website layout, which now offers a more modern look; it also means we’re featuring our Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus accounts at the footer of every page and more social integration overall. Fresher means more of the features you want. The My Account page now has a built-in search feature, new organization options for the games library, and the website is no longer the only way to deliver notifications to gamers. We’re offering the new, faster than ever GOG.com downloader, which integrates support for downloading game patches, goodies, and notifications to keep GOG users up to date on changes to games they have purchased, replies to forum threads, or PMs.Newer
Don’t worry, no matter how new we’re getting, GOG.com will always stick to our three core values: No DRM, Fair Pricing, and Love for our GOG-ers. Newer means simply newer games, whether they’re big, recognized names, indie games, day-one releases, or pre-orders.
So, in a nutshell, GOG.com are positioning themselves not only as a retailer of the great games of yesterday (like the Ultima series), but also as a retailer of the games of tomorrow as well. With a very revamped website!
I’m okay with it as long as they don’t lose sight of who got them to where they are at – namely gamers buying old games that are not available anymore. I kind of like the new site.
It could be really good if you’re an indie company, like the people who made Trine.
I feel so much better seeing a familiar poster. 🙂 Was shell shocked for a second earlier.
@Deckard I agree with the first paragraph. Sounds like GoG just got a cash infusion from investors and they needed to shake the tree to show that they could. Also sounds like they’re expanding their vision to become a competitive digital distribution service like Steam or Origin. More power to them, as long as, as you said, they don’t lose sight of their original vision.
Your indirect comparison of indie games with older games is a good one as well.
I’m just glad to see Trine up there 🙂 I really like Trine and Trine 2. Hope GOG gets Torchlight – I don’t know how much of an indie Runic (makers of Torchlight) is, but they feel like an indie, and I liked Torchlight as well.
There must be crossover between the classic games and indie games crowd. Plus the Witcher stuff did well for them.
I just hope EA doesn’t use Origin.com in the future for Origin (Systems) games. They pulled some stuff back from Steam.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if EA began a slow transition to a mostly-Origin model. They’d still support iOS and Android, but Steam and other distribution competitors would be phased out and eventually actively marketed against. “GoG does . . . what Ninten-don’t”-style ads.
Please just release Ultima VIII & IX and the Worlds and Ultima . Okay ? Thanks!
World of Ultima especially! Seriously, the only way of legally acquiring Martian Dreams is for like 100 bucks on Ebay for diskettes. Unacceptable.