Apparently the shutdown notice visible on the Good Old Games website is not a hoax. The GOG.com Facebook page was updated with a message that indicates the GOG.com team will divulge more details about the situation tomorrow.
It certainly looks like the GOG.com service will be closing down, but both official notices do indicate a possible return of Good Old Games in the future. Neoseeker got a hold of GOG.com’s PR man Tom Ohlen who backs up this notion by saying GOG.com is not gone, but merely the service in its current form. But it’s inconsistent with GOG.com’s and CDProjekt’s track record to do something like this with no advance warning.
As such it seems likely that this is but an ill-conceived publicity stunt for the service going from beta into live service, with some potential restructuring. This notion is supported by an authentic looking post on these Polish financial forums from CDProjekt’s CEO which indicates a conference regarding changes to the GOG.com service on the 22nd of September. That post was posted two days before this mess started.
So I’m hopeful that this will turn out to be nothing more than an ill-conceived publicity stunt. It may also be a prelude to some changes to GOG.com’s no-DRM policy as that has been the focal point of the official notices. Several publishers did not like this no-DRM policy so it appears that the first casualty in a potentially resurrected GOG.com would be exactly that.
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