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Rest In Peace, Good Old Games
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Jaedar
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 Rest In Peace, Good Old Games
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Xesum
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Can't they just assign their stock to Steam?
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bobby 55
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Oh no, one place where they sold old games but had them already compatible with Vista/W 7 at the download....gone.  Hopefully they can be resurrected in another form some time in the future.
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Jaedar
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games That removes half the point of GoG. Actually, some polish-speaking people at the Codex seemed to have reliable information that this is just some weird marketing stunt to mark the end of beta(yes gog is/was in beta). I guess we will see.
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Xesum
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games To be fair though this place had worse conversion rates than steam.
Dollar = Pound = Euro.
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Jaedar
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Yeah, but steam is way to expensive for its own good most of the time. Digital distribution is supposed to be cheaper, not more expensive.
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bobby 55
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Mmmmm, the most I ever paid there was $11 AUD. Mostly it was around the $6 to $7 mark. Not that I bought lots there, but still I think that's fairly reasonable a price since it usually included extra stuff with the game download.
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bobby 55
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Appears those people may be correct. The "word" is GOG advised some financial institution days ago. Also that it will get a standalone client to boot. Worst marketing ploy ever imo.
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Trestkon
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Waa? I find that Steam is *always* significantly cheaper than physical copies of games. Although maybe that's just in North America.
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bobby 55
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Well I can agree with you Trestkon. Some AAA games on Steam are nearly half the price of what our stores offer. Though that may be due in part to the ridiculous pricing of entertainment of all kinds here. * part in due.....ffs Bob
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Hassat Hunter
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games In Europe in 95% of the cases you find it cheaper in stores than on Steam.
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Jaedar
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games This. When Steam used dollars in Europe it was mostly cheaper than stores, but ever since it switched to euros its been expensive as hell. I only use Steam for sales these days  Oh and this is indeed an incredibly stupid stunt. It generates tons of PR, sure, but the last thing you want to do as an online service is give credit to the idea that it may shut down any time and lock you out of your purchases.
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bobby 55
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Sheesh, that doesn't seem fair. The prices here on Steam are in US dollars but we still get pretty good savings the majority of the time.
I agree, if it is really a stunt they will get a very nasty response from me. It's more a silly school boy lark than a sensible business move imo.
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Jonas
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games Yeah Steam seems to be more or less the same as Danish retail outlets, price-wise, but the Internet shops (the mail-order type) always have games cheaper than Steam. I still use Steam for sales, like Jaedar, and rarely to get games that I just plain can't wait for the post to deliver, but the last time I got a game on Steam for that reason was Dragon Age.
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bobby 55
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Re: Rest In Peace, Good Old Games The interwebz have dubbed it GOGgate. LOL. The only amusing thing in the whole pile of poop. 
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