GOG.com is a digital distribution platform for video games and films. It is operated by GOG sp. z o. o., a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Warsaw, Poland. In March 2012, it began selling more recent titles such as Alan Wake, Assassin’s Creed and the Metro Redux series, among many others.
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GOG. com is a digital distribution platform for video games and films. It is operated by GOG sp. z o. o., a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Warsaw, Poland. In March 2012, it began selling more recent titles such as Alan Wake, Assassin’s Creed and the Metro Redux series, among many others. During a period of days from 19 to 22 September 2010, the GOG.com website was disabled, leaving behind messages on the web site and their Twitter accounts that the site had been closed. A clarification posted on 20 September 2010 said they had shut down the site temporarily ‘due to business and technical reasons’ The shutdown may be related to the nature of DRM-free strategy, based on Twitter messages from the company from the September 2010 shutdown was revealed to be a hoax as part of the coming out of beta version of the site’s new beta version. The site’s management is aware of the reactions to the fake closure, and has apologized to everyone who felt deceived or harmed in any way by the closedown of GOG com, and even more important, the launch of our new website and more important products. The company’s interest in game distribution has declined since then. It ultimately landed the company with rights to The Witcher video game series. The website is no longer open. It has been shut down for good, but the company is working on a new site that will allow users to download and play the games they want to play. It will be available in the U.S.
and Canada, with plans to expand to the rest of Europe in the near future. The service is free to use, but users will have to pay a fee for access to the service. It was founded by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kici� Polish in 1994 for the purposes to bring legitimate sales of foreign game titles into Poland. They would obtain import rights from foreign publishers, and where possible, provide in-game localization for text and voice lines, typically through reverse engineering to decompile the game’s code. Their first major success was with Baldur’s Gate with which they had 18,000 units sold on its first day of release in Poland. After some time, Good Old Games was approached by Ubisoft, who were interested in selling their older titles through the service as well. Once Ubisoft was signed, it became easier for Good Old games to convince other publishers to allow them to offer older titles on the service in early 2008. The. company’s first big break was from Interplay, who knew of the company’s past work, and allowed them to Offer their games on the Service. In the 2000s, along with the use of DRM to control access to games, which raised some resentment with players, the company saw potential to offer DRM- free versions of classic games through digital distribution. In this manner, they would have a reason to draw players to buy their product instead of simply downloading it for free from pirate game websites and services.
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