This past sunday it looked like Good Old Games was closing its doors for good, but a new promotional trailer on YouTube seems to confirm suspicions that this was merely a PR stunt. This video lists the numerous accomplishments over the past two years as the team signed 40 publishers and 300 good old games. But in the background several still shots of the old site can be seen and mixed into those is a single frame that depicts Baldur’s Gate on the GOG.com website.
A frame that depicts Baldur’s Gate in the GOG.com layout is significant, because that game was never part of the games library of the service. Several other frames also depict a Good Old Games website that’s slightly different from it’s previous form, with a new “Gogmixes” feature for games and slightly altered layouts. So it stands to reason that these frames depict a new version of the service that is to be launched after tomorrow’s conference at 6 PM CET.
New updates on GOG.com indicate that users will be able to download their games and associated content as usual this Thursday. It curiously specifies that these will be DRM free, which along with several suspicious Twitter messages seems to indicate that games on the service will no longer be DRM free when it returns on Thursday (A new video message details that GOG.com games will remain DRM free). This would also seem to be a good time to introduce numerous previously announced features such as Windows 7 support, multi-language support and new price points for games.
It’s good to know that Good Old Games isn’t closing it’s doors after all, but this strange PR stunt is very likely to have cost them some customers and certainly a lot of credibility. Not even the arrival of Baldur’s Gate (and BioWare) on the service will be able to appease everyone.
Take a look below for the embedded trailer.
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