joppo: Weirdly enough, I first heard of GOG because of that so criticized stunt they pulled mid-2011 where they pretended to end their activities.
RedRagan: Never heard of that before. What happened really? lawsuit or licensing problem?
No, they made a major site redesign, couple new features too. But they decided to pull it in a way that it looked like they had gone bankrupt. People couldn't download their games or buy anything during that week. All that was available was a screen saying they'd have news in a few days.
Needless to say some users were quite pissed. You can check the depths of the forum for older threads and you'll see it.
Edit ninja'd for a few seconds.