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Good Old Games

GOG Limited
Gog-logo-2014.svg
Type of site
Digital distribution
Available in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese
Founded 22 February 2008; 9 years ago (2008-02-22)
Headquarters Nicosia, Cyprus
No. of locations 2 offices
Area served Worldwide
Managing director Piotr Karwowski
Parent CD Projekt
Website gog.com
Alexa rank Negative increase 2,728 (December 2015)
Advertising No
Registration Required
Launched 1 August 2008; 8 years ago (2008-08-01)
Current status Active
Native client(s) on Microsoft Windows, macOS
Written in PHP, C++

GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a Cypriot digital distribution platform service for video games and films, operated by GOG Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Nicosia, Cyprus, with an office in Warsaw, Poland. GOG delivers video games through its DRM-free digital platform for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux. In March 2012, it began selling more recent titles such as Alan Wake, Assassin's Creed and the Metro Redux series, among many others.

In 1994, Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński founded CD Projekt. They originally imported games from wholesalers in America to sell in Poland. In late 2008, CD Projekt launched GOG.com under the moniker Good Old Games. The initial goal was to release classic games to a modern audience without digital rights management restrictions.

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 spokesman for Good Old Games reiterated that the site is not being shut down, and confirmed news would be forthcoming about changes to the service. A clarification posted on the site on 20 September 2010, said they had to shut down the site temporarily "due to business and technical reasons", with industry journalists believing the shutdown may be related to the nature of DRM-free strategy, based on Twitter messages from the company. On 22 September 2010, GOG.com revealed that this shutdown was a marketing hoax as part of the site coming out of beta. The site's management, aware of the reactions to the fake closure, stated: "First of all we'd like to apologize to everyone who felt deceived or harmed in any way by the closedown of GOG.com. As a small company we don't have a huge marketing budget and this is why we could not miss a chance to generate some buzz around an event as big as launching a brand new version of our website and even more important, bringing back Baldur's Gate to life!"


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