{"id":7645,"date":"2010-09-19T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"good-old-games-shuts-down-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7645-good-old-games-shuts-down-sort-of","title":{"rendered":"Good Old Games shuts down, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good old Games<\/a> has been selling DRM free classic PC games since 2008. Over the weekend, a mysterious message appeared on the site, and its entire catalogue was inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear GOG users,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have recently had to give serious thought to whether we could really keep GOG.com the way it is. We&#8217;ve debated on it for quite some time and, unfortunately, we&#8217;ve decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;re very grateful for all support we&#8217;ve received from all of you in the past two years. Working on GOG.com was a great adventure for all of us and an unforgettable journey to the past, through the long and wonderful history of PC gaming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This doesn&#8217;t mean the idea behind GOG.com is gone forever. We&#8217;re closing down the service and putting this era behind us as new challenges await.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On a technical note, this week we&#8217;ll put in place a solution to allow everyone to re-download their games. Stay tuned to this page and follow us on Twitterand Facebook for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All the best,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GOG.com Team<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GoG also told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/65645\" target=\"_blank\">Shacknews<\/a> that, &#8220;as the message on the site says, this doesn&#8217;t mean GOG is gone :).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8143-GoG-is-closing-down-(?p=291699#post291699\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Good old Games &#8220;shutdown&#8221;<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoG.com will not continue to operate as it has to date <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}