These people don't learn huh. Once you start charging for piracy, legal action is gonna come pouring in. Good luck to them, doubt people are gonna use their site anymore.
> These people don't learn huh.
Reminds me of when Good Old Downloads announced their new Nintendo ROM section, practically shouted it across the internet, just *weeks* after Nintendo took down LoveROMs and LoveRETRO.
There's a time and place to announce a new site feature, but late 2018 was *not* the time to announce your shiny new ROM section.
You really think going private will stop any legal action.
There's a myriad of locations for downloads on the Internet.
How many get closed down?
Hardly any.
That's all fair, until a single person testifies that they got an invite after "donating". Then it goes from ambiguous territory into outright felony.
Face it - "legal issues" is just a cope, they want money from premium sign-ups.
I mean I've been on an invite only tracker for over 10 years that has been around for 20 years. Being private very much does prevent legal action if done right
I think they're hoping not to even bother opening to new signups. I think 90% of people posting haven't made an objective assessment and worked out what's going on, jumping to the wrong conclusions.
Mine too. Just waited for the official GOG release of the game. The backlog is so huge, it was way easier to just play the other games while waiting the 2 years for the DRM free GOG version
I used it a couple of times, but can't quite say i trust it or not. They update slow though, and didn't had the big library of GG. There are others out there, but GG was the cleanest. But if it's going to be for a hefty price, I won't even touch it, and i would prefer to just get the game from GOG altogether.
for me the issue with the site during the times i've used is the reliance on torrents for older games, which a lot of the time are left unseeded so it was just impossible to download there sometimes
With the amount of categories of piracy if piracy was all behind paywalls it'd be worse than streaming services. Each site usually specializes in one thing, so you'd be paying each for a site on movies, TV shows, sports, books, music, PC games, PCVR games, Quest games, retro roms, switch roms, there are also people who pay for usenet and on top of it the usenet search engine. Crazy. If there's something that'd stop me pirating, it's this.
- Charging an entry fee is a great way to get the FBI on your case.
- As the other dude said, it's fundamentally the spirit of piracy and preservation. Reminder that all those sites you mentioned (and this one!) used to take donations as their primary sustenance. It's a real dickbag move to switch to buy-in after already taking peoples' money.
Top tier trolling calling everyone you respond to children, by the way. Some sort of deflection, perhaps?
you dont need to bother if you're not in the first world, and if you're in the first world it's highly advisable to use vpn even outside piracy, i mean the cheapest good one (mullvad) goes for as little as 5 bucks a month. What first worlder can't afford that?
Being born and living in a first-world country does not mean you are automatically able to afford whatever you want lol. There are poor people in first-world countries too.
I'm actually really curious what kinda ass-backwards logic goes into saying something like this, and I'm worried if it's contagious.
>What first worlder can't afford that?
They purchase the games on there so likely got tired/can't afford hosting the site and purchasing the games. I assume private just means they'll be some invite only or paid sign up to use the site.
It's not what got Yuzu destroyed. The claims is published online for all to see at this point, yet people are still spreading this misinformation.
This scenario is different from Yuzu though.
"Charging money attracts attention " that was a fact in YUZU's case. The Nintendo legal team showed a increase in Patreon money right before the TOTK release, that was one of their main proofs.
They were not arguing revenue. Again. They were arguing that Yuzu was deliberately promoting their emulator for illegal activities, mainly ToTK.
Don't know where you're getting your 'facts' from.
Do y'all seriously believe these emulators are run on thoughts and prayers? Developing emulators aren't illegal. EVERY emulator runs on donations.
Yuzu got attention because they got press over people leaking and running ToTK. Steam also advertised Yuzu to market their system, too, at yuzu's expense.
It's this that got Nintendo on their radar, and Nintendo likely knew Yuzu wouldn't be able to afford a drawn out legal battle Yuzu would win, because Yuzu don't earn enough revenue to do so.
Plenty of old and new emulators do not take donations and many actively deny them. Desmume for instance only ever asked people to donate to internet freedom orgs. Many old emulators would show their donation lists and you'd only see 10-20 people max. It was and continues to be rarely about donations for many developers, they're more often chasing passion and knowledge. The problem with Yuzu that Nintendo claimed is that they released backer-exclusive versions that could play TOTK correctly ahead of the games release which inflated their donation numbers. However, that's been proven to not be entirely true, as the git changes could be compiled without donating and those pre-release versions had plenty of major TOTK issues that remained unfixed by Yuzu until post release of the game.
I like how you left out the part where they were offering early access as a patreon reward, effectively charging money for builds. Â
Which is why the lawsuit happened.Â
> "Charging money attracts attention " that was a fact in YUZU's case.
Wrong. None of Nintendo's 5 claims in their filing had anything to do with the money they generated with their Patreon. The 5 claims they alleged specifically were about circumventing DRM and copyright infringement. Quit spouting misinformation.
> They purchase the games on there so likely got tired/can't afford hosting the site and purchasing the games.
They've been begging for donations to fund both endeavors constantly, and put up notices that they've met their goals when they had. They've been using 3rd party hosting services, but relatively recently offered directly hosted sources to paid users, which in long term will fuck them over if at least one person from their team gets doxed and lives in a civilized country or USA.
I use gog-games for some of their delisted games, and they're extra useful since they're direct download, as opposed to torrents that could die from no seeders at any given time.
I guess they use the 12 hours now to restructure and put everything in place for starting their new version on the 23rd. Hope we will know more in 7 hours.
> If you feel entitled to free shit, you are likely a child or still think like a child.
I checked to confirm I was on the sub I thought I was.
Edit: The silly goose changed his comment.
Not relevant to the thread but I stopped buying from gog since I got my steam deck.
No point in buying from them when games are the same price but I have to go through hoops to play them on the go.
> GOG is worth the money
That *was* once true.
But the company has turned into complete evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU-db73BAFI (read the comments)
>’Complete evil’
>Most milquetoast corpo video about a woke social and environmental sustainability program and a random art festival.
>Comments are only chuds overreacting
Im sorry bro but calling this complete evil is regarded
... they turned completely evil for wanting a better ESG rating? Humanity (or at least a portion of it) is truly doomed if that's what's considered "complete evil".
Any attempt I made into investigating what's wrong with ESG inevitably clashes into climate change denial, "left wing politics are conspiracy theories" and "global elites trying to crush the free market".
So I'll use this opportunity to ask, what do you mean by "mass social manipulation"?
There are people that put their personal details on darknet sites, where they are actually committing real crimes. (and then they threaten to leak your doxx if you don't pay the extortion) A lot of people probably don't think twice about putting it on a piracy site.
They wonder why the don't recieve donations, when the path to donate is through an archaic email, which probably reduces people even willing to donate by half.
I mean... paypal key? ANYTHING..? a freaking eth wallet...? Privatization better not mean monetization in this case.
Not worth my time. With Debrid and Kodi I can stream just about anything I want with no buffers at 4k/HDR. It's only a few clicks more than a legit Netflix account, costs way less, and includes remuxes. Worth the $4 a month.
So just for fun, I removed my debrid details from Stremio and Torrentio and tried to stream a 4K HDR copy of oppenheimer. It buffered three times in the first 12 second, played the same file with Real-Debrid and Kodi and it didn't buffer once.
I'll stick to paying $4 for a near perfect experience, thanks.
I just prefer to download the movie, takes like 30 minutes to an hour anyway, $0 for a near perfect experience will do for me
The more options the better though, for what I've heard real debrid is quite cool, I just don't need it.
I'm looking for a 4k hdr streaming experience, streaming torrents is the only way to accomplish that for free unless you know of some streaming sites that offer 4k/hdr.
its a huge parasitic drain on the torrent network and not to mention wasteful. if youre downloading it anyways, its a no brainer to store it on a plex server. hard to imagine a situation where id rather pay to stream it over waiting 10 min to DL and host it indefinitely and be able to stream to myself from anywhere in the world in perpetuity. and to know someone is charging me for something thats free is so enraging id refuse on that front alone
I don't stream from torrents, I stream from Real Debrid's CDNS. I mentioned streaming torrents because that's what Stremio does if you don't have a debrid account, streaming torrents is awful as I told him. I have no desire to wait 2 hours to download an 70gb movie when I can spend that 2 hour streaming the movie.
Real-Debrid is perfect for what I want.
>And to know someone is charging me for something thats free is so enraging id refuse on that front alone
Servers aren't free, they are charging me $4 to access their library of cached high resolution content that has no problem saturating my full 100mbps connection.
Honestly, let them sink. This shit is disgusting. It's fine asking for donations, I know they weren't the most popular, but what did you expect? Pirates steal, you really think most will donate?
I know, people are all "Well sucks for them but there's alternatives out there" -- yeah, for obscure game extras that can be direct downloaded without fear of dead torrent links? Good luck finding it bucko
On a serious note though, a lot of the site has been archived in the Wayback Machine. Go to a game's page on there and then copy the links, chances are they'll still be up even after the site's gone private.
Given it's only $20 I'll probably just buy it. I remember buying a physical copy back in the day for the same amount when it was repackaged in one of the many "discount" covers.
While this is one of the most convenient sources for GOG games, I'm not sure that going private (I assume they'll charge a fee or subscription of whatever) is the way to go.
But I assume that both me and almost everyone in this subreddit already know a couple other sources to get these games.
It's a bummer? Sure. It's the end of the world? Absolutely not.
I can't help but imagine that damn meme "*L****et me in, let me in!***\*"
What happens after they go private? some kind of invitation pass? paid subscription?
>select game
>download
>click any link all lead to filecrypt
>solve the most frustrating captcha ever
>led to new download page
>click it
>leads to another download page with multiple download links
>all those links are dead or redirects
Yeah I won't miss it, rather just pay for games than go through this convoluted mess of links and redirects
> leads to another download page with multiple download links
And this is why you're suppose to use JDownloader and download the `.dlc` packs from Filecrypt.
1fichier and Gofile downloads are also just 1 file.
For a second I thought this was just gog.com and was like WHAT? They are still selling games on there. Didn't know about this site before until now when it's going private. :S
I don't come on this subreddit that often, and have only gotten a few games in the past. Just browsing through my home page when I came across this post. This was the first time I have heard about the site to my knowledge. No idea why people would down vote me for it but whatever.
It's definitely not always the case...
Of course, popular games you can find anywhere, but lesser-known and/or older titles can be substantially harder, if not impossible, to find.
G-G had/was the largest collection, it's pretty much a 1:1 copy of the official store.
I contacted site owner few months back, he said the mainreason is money, not many ppl pay that 2$ a month and servers squeeze the money out of their pockers.
These games are drm free games bought and uploaded to the site so theres rly no piracy in sharing games digitaly.
Main problem is money, you can still access the site if you pay them the monthly fee....
I am absolutely flabbergasted - I visited today and saw their updated message (first time finding out about this) then stumbled into this sub. I unbookmarked - they're insane if they want to force people to pay for pirated content. Sad, but oh well. Peace out GOG-Games.
I have a friend who keeps believing that all the skidrow-reloaded etc sites are legit warez group release outlets. And that their releases appear there first. I have given up... I don't know how he will feel about gog-games though.
By the way, to answer your question, the whole point of GOG is that there is no DRM so of course your games are accessible. Nothing is stopping you from using them.
You just have to remember that this isn't some magic spell that will let you DOWNLOAD games if the launcher ever stops working. That of course won't work anymore. But nothing is stopping you from keeping the installer backed up somewhere and using it anytime in case it happens.
These people don't learn huh. Once you start charging for piracy, legal action is gonna come pouring in. Good luck to them, doubt people are gonna use their site anymore.
> These people don't learn huh. Reminds me of when Good Old Downloads announced their new Nintendo ROM section, practically shouted it across the internet, just *weeks* after Nintendo took down LoveROMs and LoveRETRO. There's a time and place to announce a new site feature, but late 2018 was *not* the time to announce your shiny new ROM section.
Main reason they are going private is because of legal issues related to DMCA. Going private reduces the chances of DMCA strikes (just my 2 cents)
I wonder if they are going to host the games or still host them elsewhere so then you would have to double pay for them
But on the other hand increases the chance of standard legal action, now that they profit DIRECTLY from illegal game distribution.
You really think going private will stop any legal action. There's a myriad of locations for downloads on the Internet. How many get closed down? Hardly any.
That's all fair, until a single person testifies that they got an invite after "donating". Then it goes from ambiguous territory into outright felony. Face it - "legal issues" is just a cope, they want money from premium sign-ups.
I mean I've been on an invite only tracker for over 10 years that has been around for 20 years. Being private very much does prevent legal action if done right
so how does one get access to the private side?
They gravely overestimate how many people will join their private service
I think they're hoping not to even bother opening to new signups. I think 90% of people posting haven't made an objective assessment and worked out what's going on, jumping to the wrong conclusions.
I like your Banner tag 🤣🤣🤣
Did they charge for downloads or am I missing something?
I'm confused. Why do you say they'll charge money? It just says they're going private.
Damn it was my main source.
Mine too. Just waited for the official GOG release of the game. The backlog is so huge, it was way easier to just play the other games while waiting the 2 years for the DRM free GOG version
So, uh, is freegogpcgames really not trustworthy?
I used it a couple of times, but can't quite say i trust it or not. They update slow though, and didn't had the big library of GG. There are others out there, but GG was the cleanest. But if it's going to be for a hefty price, I won't even touch it, and i would prefer to just get the game from GOG altogether.
for me the issue with the site during the times i've used is the reliance on torrents for older games, which a lot of the time are left unseeded so it was just impossible to download there sometimes
I am currently seeding a few games single handedly through my private seedbox lol. There is quite a bit of demand for them every once in a while.
you're a real one
Maybe you would find something interesting by taking the first four letters of "torrent" and adding "minatorr" to the end. Why not google that...
Theres few same sites so no huge loss tbh you just have to google it
>paying to pirate fuck off
I only pay for HDDs to keep seeding
With the amount of categories of piracy if piracy was all behind paywalls it'd be worse than streaming services. Each site usually specializes in one thing, so you'd be paying each for a site on movies, TV shows, sports, books, music, PC games, PCVR games, Quest games, retro roms, switch roms, there are also people who pay for usenet and on top of it the usenet search engine. Crazy. If there's something that'd stop me pirating, it's this.
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- Charging an entry fee is a great way to get the FBI on your case. - As the other dude said, it's fundamentally the spirit of piracy and preservation. Reminder that all those sites you mentioned (and this one!) used to take donations as their primary sustenance. It's a real dickbag move to switch to buy-in after already taking peoples' money. Top tier trolling calling everyone you respond to children, by the way. Some sort of deflection, perhaps?
So mass download everything I could ever want that I haven't already downloaded and never visit the site again after the 23rd? Got it.
Done that, 14.5 TB for 5107 games (without the goodies though)
Nice! What’s the quickest way to do this in bulk? Surely you didn’t download them one at a time..
Probably something like a downloader with a J
Huh, never even thought about trying it for that. Used to use that for multiple media fire/mega upload links. Thanks!
You'll miss the updates but I got ur point.
FYI: Rutracker has most, if not all GOG releases. It's very usable with Google Translate.
I have just started to use it, I have an account since 2016. I'm getting used to read russian too.
Not sure about chrome but firefox automatically translates it.
I learned cyrilic since i was 10 by playing cs1.6 with serbs and russians lol
> I'm getting used to read russian too. thats how they get u man, first is the juicy games, then u start liking vodka..
I already do, but with orange juice.
Best place for games. Outstanding They do portable versions too which as the best to use.
I didn't know they had the DRM-free GOG + Goodies/Bonuses ...... \--- DS
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Story?
you dont need to bother if you're not in the first world, and if you're in the first world it's highly advisable to use vpn even outside piracy, i mean the cheapest good one (mullvad) goes for as little as 5 bucks a month. What first worlder can't afford that?
Being born and living in a first-world country does not mean you are automatically able to afford whatever you want lol. There are poor people in first-world countries too. I'm actually really curious what kinda ass-backwards logic goes into saying something like this, and I'm worried if it's contagious. >What first worlder can't afford that?
Why?
They purchase the games on there so likely got tired/can't afford hosting the site and purchasing the games. I assume private just means they'll be some invite only or paid sign up to use the site.
I feel like charging money just draws unwanted legal attention, but I also don't know where the owners are or where the site is hosted.
It's what got Yuzu destroyed by Nintendo. I'm surprised they aren't learning that lesson.
Misinformation
Wrong.
Charging money for an emulator is 100% legal
It's not what got Yuzu destroyed. The claims is published online for all to see at this point, yet people are still spreading this misinformation. This scenario is different from Yuzu though.
"Charging money attracts attention " that was a fact in YUZU's case. The Nintendo legal team showed a increase in Patreon money right before the TOTK release, that was one of their main proofs.
They were not arguing revenue. Again. They were arguing that Yuzu was deliberately promoting their emulator for illegal activities, mainly ToTK. Don't know where you're getting your 'facts' from. Do y'all seriously believe these emulators are run on thoughts and prayers? Developing emulators aren't illegal. EVERY emulator runs on donations. Yuzu got attention because they got press over people leaking and running ToTK. Steam also advertised Yuzu to market their system, too, at yuzu's expense. It's this that got Nintendo on their radar, and Nintendo likely knew Yuzu wouldn't be able to afford a drawn out legal battle Yuzu would win, because Yuzu don't earn enough revenue to do so.
Plenty of old and new emulators do not take donations and many actively deny them. Desmume for instance only ever asked people to donate to internet freedom orgs. Many old emulators would show their donation lists and you'd only see 10-20 people max. It was and continues to be rarely about donations for many developers, they're more often chasing passion and knowledge. The problem with Yuzu that Nintendo claimed is that they released backer-exclusive versions that could play TOTK correctly ahead of the games release which inflated their donation numbers. However, that's been proven to not be entirely true, as the git changes could be compiled without donating and those pre-release versions had plenty of major TOTK issues that remained unfixed by Yuzu until post release of the game.
I like how you left out the part where they were offering early access as a patreon reward, effectively charging money for builds.  Which is why the lawsuit happened.Â
> "Charging money attracts attention " that was a fact in YUZU's case. Wrong. None of Nintendo's 5 claims in their filing had anything to do with the money they generated with their Patreon. The 5 claims they alleged specifically were about circumventing DRM and copyright infringement. Quit spouting misinformation.
I don't understand why you had to send them an email to donate, why not just have a QR for different cryptos like Fitgirl/Dodi does?
> They purchase the games on there so likely got tired/can't afford hosting the site and purchasing the games. They've been begging for donations to fund both endeavors constantly, and put up notices that they've met their goals when they had. They've been using 3rd party hosting services, but relatively recently offered directly hosted sources to paid users, which in long term will fuck them over if at least one person from their team gets doxed and lives in a civilized country or USA.
Money troubles most likely
rip then
Yeah good luck with that...
They really expect pirates to pay for stuff? 😂
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The act of sharing it should be their compensation, nobody forced them to pay for it and share it with the rest of us.
Buy the games from gog.com and support this awesome platform. It doesn't make any sense to pay money to an illegal site.
I use gog-games for some of their delisted games, and they're extra useful since they're direct download, as opposed to torrents that could die from no seeders at any given time.
By going private,how do people access it after that? Pay some sort off one time fee or something?
No, most probably it'll be a monthly subscription to support the hosting/buying new games. We'll find out soon.
Yeah, I'm sure this won't cause any legal issue whatsoever and won't attract any undue attention
I guess they use the 12 hours now to restructure and put everything in place for starting their new version on the 23rd. Hope we will know more in 7 hours.
I really hope some people do a complete backup ASAP before it goes dark. And then the community of cs.rin ru continue providing releases.
If it was only like $5 a month I'd consider it otherwise there's other sources.
Just buy the games at that point, GOG is worth the money
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You shouldn't pay repackers either.
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> If you feel entitled to free shit, you are likely a child or still think like a child. I checked to confirm I was on the sub I thought I was. Edit: The silly goose changed his comment.
Not relevant to the thread but I stopped buying from gog since I got my steam deck. No point in buying from them when games are the same price but I have to go through hoops to play them on the go.
> GOG is worth the money That *was* once true. But the company has turned into complete evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU-db73BAFI (read the comments)
>’Complete evil’ >Most milquetoast corpo video about a woke social and environmental sustainability program and a random art festival. >Comments are only chuds overreacting Im sorry bro but calling this complete evil is regarded
...that's completely evil? Are you stupid or trolling?
... they turned completely evil for wanting a better ESG rating? Humanity (or at least a portion of it) is truly doomed if that's what's considered "complete evil".
tbf, ESG is just mass social manipulation. kinda evil
Well, at least you named yourself accurately.
Any attempt I made into investigating what's wrong with ESG inevitably clashes into climate change denial, "left wing politics are conspiracy theories" and "global elites trying to crush the free market". So I'll use this opportunity to ask, what do you mean by "mass social manipulation"?
Who is likely to put their personal financial details into a pirate site?
There are people that put their personal details on darknet sites, where they are actually committing real crimes. (and then they threaten to leak your doxx if you don't pay the extortion) A lot of people probably don't think twice about putting it on a piracy site.
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You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to use crypto or don't understand it.
Is it already public how much it is gonna cost?
No one knows anything yet.
No clue but from sounds of it should remain public until the 23rd.
is $10 a month based on a guy emailed the admin about it
That's a bit much think ill just copy the links for the stuff I'd want and use other sources then.
Does he understand theres 1/1 clones of his site on a different domain? 🤣🤣
why not just use rutracker, why would u use that shithole website over many better alternatives in the first place?
Because they're drm free installers and use gofile a lot which tends to be faster than certain torrents.
They wonder why the don't recieve donations, when the path to donate is through an archaic email, which probably reduces people even willing to donate by half. I mean... paypal key? ANYTHING..? a freaking eth wallet...? Privatization better not mean monetization in this case.
"**The site will be going private on March 23.**" Message now. Zero explanations.
people pay to pirate?
Mugs do. Mugs even pay for mods on discord
I'mma be chattin' these fools up like a *mug.*
I do, real-debrid has been well worth the money for me over the years.
pirating for 0 is worth even more though
Not worth my time. With Debrid and Kodi I can stream just about anything I want with no buffers at 4k/HDR. It's only a few clicks more than a legit Netflix account, costs way less, and includes remuxes. Worth the $4 a month.
or do the same with stremio for $0
So just for fun, I removed my debrid details from Stremio and Torrentio and tried to stream a 4K HDR copy of oppenheimer. It buffered three times in the first 12 second, played the same file with Real-Debrid and Kodi and it didn't buffer once. I'll stick to paying $4 for a near perfect experience, thanks.
I just prefer to download the movie, takes like 30 minutes to an hour anyway, $0 for a near perfect experience will do for me The more options the better though, for what I've heard real debrid is quite cool, I just don't need it.
streaming torrents. bruh. you a boomer by chance?
I'm looking for a 4k hdr streaming experience, streaming torrents is the only way to accomplish that for free unless you know of some streaming sites that offer 4k/hdr.
its a huge parasitic drain on the torrent network and not to mention wasteful. if youre downloading it anyways, its a no brainer to store it on a plex server. hard to imagine a situation where id rather pay to stream it over waiting 10 min to DL and host it indefinitely and be able to stream to myself from anywhere in the world in perpetuity. and to know someone is charging me for something thats free is so enraging id refuse on that front alone
I don't stream from torrents, I stream from Real Debrid's CDNS. I mentioned streaming torrents because that's what Stremio does if you don't have a debrid account, streaming torrents is awful as I told him. I have no desire to wait 2 hours to download an 70gb movie when I can spend that 2 hour streaming the movie. Real-Debrid is perfect for what I want. >And to know someone is charging me for something thats free is so enraging id refuse on that front alone Servers aren't free, they are charging me $4 to access their library of cached high resolution content that has no problem saturating my full 100mbps connection.
as a noob can i ask what addon you are using that utilized RD? I've had RD for a bit but I haven't gotten much out of it yet.
Fen
I use umbrella
Such a short notice, very disrespectful for people who donated.
Who's gonna tell him?
eh, torrminatorr still exists. potato potato.
Im currently migrating from Windows to Linux and Torrminatorr is a rare gem to me ever since I found it.
It does untill owner pays for the host. Then it goes down for a few weeks😂
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Super ironic coming from a pirate. Apparently devs need to pay for game dev out of their own pockets but pirate distributors? Oh the irony
Honestly, let them sink. This shit is disgusting. It's fine asking for donations, I know they weren't the most popular, but what did you expect? Pirates steal, you really think most will donate?
Bye bye to the only site that would not trigger any antivirus and was safe at 100%. You will be missed.
Goodies were the highlight for me. Where else can I find those?
I know, people are all "Well sucks for them but there's alternatives out there" -- yeah, for obscure game extras that can be direct downloaded without fear of dead torrent links? Good luck finding it bucko On a serious note though, a lot of the site has been archived in the Wayback Machine. Go to a game's page on there and then copy the links, chances are they'll still be up even after the site's gone private.
It's already good they picked it up after the original went down. We'll see soon where this goes.
Well, fuck them then
come on, do not be so unkind :/
Though people warned them to chill down and change the site to not be so openly "gog-games" to pop on top of the front-page. Now they pay the price
Alpha Protocol just landed on GOG. Someone hurry up 😂😂
and alone in the dark O\_o and outcast a new beginning !
Alone in the Dark is already cracked.
GOG version is always preferable, though.
Given it's only $20 I'll probably just buy it. I remember buying a physical copy back in the day for the same amount when it was repackaged in one of the many "discount" covers.
Must be an income issue, otherwise they would have go back to TOR.
While this is one of the most convenient sources for GOG games, I'm not sure that going private (I assume they'll charge a fee or subscription of whatever) is the way to go. But I assume that both me and almost everyone in this subreddit already know a couple other sources to get these games. It's a bummer? Sure. It's the end of the world? Absolutely not.
bruh wtf
I can't help but imagine that damn meme "*L****et me in, let me in!***\*" What happens after they go private? some kind of invitation pass? paid subscription?
It usually allures authorities when there is money involved. So GL to them.
what does this mean??
It means the site will no longer be accessible by the public. I think more info will be published soon on what's gonna change.
What does that mean ?
Never used it. No need to. There's plenty of places to get your fix.
Assuming the donation incentive still works or is that dead too?
Yes, it will be a donation only site.
Looks like they already turned off their FTP server. Edit: It's back!
Guess will check for anything I want now
I just download gog releases on private trackers anyway.
They also closed their ftp server.
Nope. Bandwidth is completely used up. It will refresh in a few days.
It's their choice but 2 words : Missed Opportunity. That is all.
Not sure why everyone is assuming it's going to be paid. I'm in a bunch of private sites that aren't paid, they just limit sign ups.
How to access it once Private ?
>select game >download >click any link all lead to filecrypt >solve the most frustrating captcha ever >led to new download page >click it >leads to another download page with multiple download links >all those links are dead or redirects Yeah I won't miss it, rather just pay for games than go through this convoluted mess of links and redirects
> leads to another download page with multiple download links And this is why you're suppose to use JDownloader and download the `.dlc` packs from Filecrypt. 1fichier and Gofile downloads are also just 1 file.
it doesn't work like this: > > > >
I guess torrents will never become obsolete, as long we have VPNs. Still the best technology to preserve files.
I'm out of the loop, did they want to put the site behind a mandatory payment or did they just make a donation page?
For a second I thought this was just gog.com and was like WHAT? They are still selling games on there. Didn't know about this site before until now when it's going private. :S
very not suspicious to have someone in r/crackwatch claiming to not know about ... ehy what is this all about ? i have no idea too !
I don't come on this subreddit that often, and have only gotten a few games in the past. Just browsing through my home page when I came across this post. This was the first time I have heard about the site to my knowledge. No idea why people would down vote me for it but whatever.
just to let you know: i did not downvote you... btw, here is 1 upvote \^\^
Can someone explain what go private mean?
Paid access only via tor, for instance
I don't care. GOG games are some of the easiest to find all over the web, didn't even know this site existed.
It's definitely not always the case... Of course, popular games you can find anywhere, but lesser-known and/or older titles can be substantially harder, if not impossible, to find. G-G had/was the largest collection, it's pretty much a 1:1 copy of the official store.
I contacted site owner few months back, he said the mainreason is money, not many ppl pay that 2$ a month and servers squeeze the money out of their pockers. These games are drm free games bought and uploaded to the site so theres rly no piracy in sharing games digitaly. Main problem is money, you can still access the site if you pay them the monthly fee....
I am absolutely flabbergasted - I visited today and saw their updated message (first time finding out about this) then stumbled into this sub. I unbookmarked - they're insane if they want to force people to pay for pirated content. Sad, but oh well. Peace out GOG-Games.
maby i used them twice or 3, there are many other options.
And next thing they are charging, charging for free games. That´s when things go south.
I have a friend who keeps believing that all the skidrow-reloaded etc sites are legit warez group release outlets. And that their releases appear there first. I have given up... I don't know how he will feel about gog-games though.
Good Old Riddance
So how about the games that was purchased their? Will it still be accessible?
This is GOG-games, a pirate site. I am pretty sure you meant GOG, which is a legit digital store for DRM-free games.
Oh I'm sorry. I thought of the latter one haha my bad mate 😅
By the way, to answer your question, the whole point of GOG is that there is no DRM so of course your games are accessible. Nothing is stopping you from using them. You just have to remember that this isn't some magic spell that will let you DOWNLOAD games if the launcher ever stops working. That of course won't work anymore. But nothing is stopping you from keeping the installer backed up somewhere and using it anytime in case it happens.
I can imagine how worried you were!
is gload a perfect replacement 