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Posted March 29, 2012
[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ][/url]Best Independent Adventure, Best Adventure of 2009 Runner-Up,
Best Graphic Design, Best Music, Best Animation - Aggie
Best Indie Game of 2009 - Gamasutra
Best Traditional Adventure Game of 2009 - AceGamez
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - Academy of Interactive Arts
Excellence in Visual Art in 2009 - Independent Game Fesitval
PC Game of the Year 2009 Runner-up - Kotaku

You can add [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], indie gold nugget, to your very own ‘Best of’ collection for only $9.99 with 8 wallpapers, full soundtrack (which costs $5 extra elsewhere), 8 avatars, 22 artworks, 114 design sketches, available today on GOG.com.

You may have thought Czech are famous only for pilsner, dumplings, Eva Herzigová and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/vampire_the_masquerade_redemption" target="_blank]Vampires roaming the streets of Prague[/url]. Now, thanks to a few brilliant people from Amanita Design, the Czech Republic is also known as the homeland of trippy point-and-clicks, giant robo-junkyards, and mechanical cities. In Machinarium, you find a small robot named Josef lying on a scrapheap, kicked out of the strange city of robots. You need to get back to the city to confront and defeat the Evil Black Cap Brotherhood that terrorized robot kind and took away Josef’s girlfriend. The goal of Machinarium is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers by clicking on objects that are within Josef’s reach. So, it’s a typical point-and-click, but in the same fashion as The Triplets Of Belleville is a typical animation.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url] is hands down one of the most beautiful games for PCs ever. Of course it’s a matter of taste, but the colored pencil drawings, eerie music, and the clever conversations that involve no dialogues but rather pictographs all combine to create an ethereal atmosphere like in Le Voyage dans la lune or Metropolis. Extraordinary amount of work has been put to detailing the world to perfection, allowing you to discover all the small and big things that make the story of the little robot so artistically unique, brilliantly crafted, imaginatively realised, and fascinating to play. Machinarium is like reading your favorite book in a strange fantastic language you find yourself comprehending after the first few lines.

There is no game quite like [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], and you should not be reading this right now. Instead you should be immersed in the imaginative and memorable robo-world for $9.99 only, available now on GOG.com.
Posted March 29, 2012
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Zeewolf: But... what on earth were they thinking with this release? When they know how worried much of their fanbase is, instead of releasing an old title to alleviate our fears about their new direction they bring us one of the most redundant releases in the history of GOG. This game was always DRM-free, it's even DRM-free if you buy it on Steam (because it's flash). And it's on sale everywhere, featured in tons of high profile discounts and bundles.
Yeah, that's another question, this is really not most fortunate release they could do today.
Posted March 29, 2012
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serpantino: Also knee jerk reactions can be a good indicator of how much GOG is aggravating their customer base.
I don't know about that; it's downright scary how much people detest change. I've seen users going postal because a website changed a bloody favicon.

It was clear from the start this was going to be emotional, and I'm not all that happy with it myself, but yeah, some perspective would be nice. From everyone participating.
Posted March 29, 2012
I say delayed older games means less buggy older games.
Posted March 29, 2012
You know, maybe give it a few months to see where gog is actually going with this new direction before the screams of abandonment start. Maybe for once, gog is actually a nice thing, we have it, and it actually hasn’t stopped being a nice thing just yet.

Gog has actual spoken up with blue text trying to qualm some worries, but with it being a forum obviously not everyone is going to come across the replies. I think it needs a thread of its own because right now peoples worries and any replies are spread across a number of threads, it's easy to miss. A news post would be nice, unless they are releasing an old game soon, which would speak for itself.
Posted March 29, 2012
Thank you for releasing a great game GOG. What most people forget (or don't realize) is this game has "classic" written all over it. It's a great deal for this game considering that Steam charges $9.99 for the base game and $4.99 for the soundtrack while the other extras aren't included at all. People are a bit upset since the game was released in a Humble Indie Bundle and is a "newer" title. I myself purchased this game from the Humble Indie Bundle and while I would have liked to see the release of an older classic game this is a great release all the same :)
Posted March 29, 2012
I like this game very much.
But just this game for THURSDAY release is somehow.. redundant.
I was looking forward to see Spacechem today ._.

But i think, the way to anounce games you want to release soon is not the right one. It just makes me disappoint, if there is no "new" release on TUE or THU - day.

Keep on GOG!
Posted March 29, 2012
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tejozaszaszas: Well, anyway I may buy it from that web only to give more money to developers but... I think GOG is a better quality option . Yes you also got a drm free copy, but GOG´s one you are able to download it wherever you want to... So it´s much better deal that a steam key. Just my opinion.
The Grimrock shop uses the Humble Bundle system, so you can redownload the DRM-free version from that shop for as long as you keep the e-mail featuring the link to your "receipt page" or whatever. Edit: "Unique Humble URL", actually.
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Posted March 29, 2012
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CowboyBebop: Thank you for releasing a great game GOG. What most people forget (or don't realize) is this game has "classic" written all over it. It's a great deal for this game considering that Steam charges $9.99 for the base game and $4.99 for the soundtrack while the other extras aren't included at all. People are a bit upset since the game was released in a Humble Indie Bundle and is a "newer" title. I myself purchased this game from the Humble Indie Bundle and while I would have liked to see the release of an older classic game this is a great release all the same :)
That´s true. It´s sad many people didn´t notice at all.
Posted March 29, 2012
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JediEagle: Great game! I already own the CE edition and the Steam version, but I do highly recommend it to everybody :)
Me too!
I already have Humble Bundle DRM-free Machinarium, Steam Machinarium, Retail CE Machinarium.
I just wishlisted it here on GOG, and I will buy it only in case of super sale.
Posted March 29, 2012
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Zeewolf: The Grimrock shop uses the Humble Bundle system
Oh, does it? In that case, I honestly can't see GOG ever being able to compete with Wolfire once the Humble Store launches. The DRM-free installer + Steam key combo is hard to beat. Oh well. We'll see.
Posted March 29, 2012
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Posted March 29, 2012
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Merchito: I don't understand why us, GOG customers who come here in search of classics good old games, are being bashed and insulted because we express our worries. GOG is the best place, if not the only one, to find classic old games tweaked in order to work on modern computers. And there are hundreds of other sites who sell new, indie or not, games. Our concern is genuine !
Just take a look at the front page, at the tab "new & coming"... How many classics is there ?
"It's stupid to complain after 3 days", can we read in many unfriendly comments... But can't they notice how the good old games are already overwhelmed ?
You dont understand, what are you doing is exactly "bashing and insulting" gog for not releasing your precious whatever (old)game after 3 days on relaunching campaign. They said multiple times that they'll stick to classics but no, you come bitching here. This is more likely paranoia, not "concerns"
You have no vision, you cant see the whole picture, youre acting like a 3 years old. One can clearly see this.
Those are not "concernings" you promote here, and for sure they are not "genuine". Its exactly the attitude of a 3 years old and not of an intelligent and visionary adult.
Posted March 29, 2012
Some of you guys are speculating about what this means for our release schedule and GOG.com in the future as a whole. Let me assure you: we are releasing two classic games--both from before 2006--next week.
Posted March 29, 2012
I know a quick and easy way for GOG to stop the complaints, if they want (and are genuine about continuing to focus on old games):

Throw us a bone and reveal a cool retro release that's coming soon.


(also, mobutu: at least he isn't being unfriendly, like you)
Posted March 29, 2012
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serpantino: A quick shout out to all the brown nosed individuals.... you can be offended by people who dislike the lack of an old release all you like but at the end of the day, if people don't complain then GOG won't do anything about it.

Having no old release and one indie release hurts a lot more than having an Indie game and an old game released on the same day you wouldn't be losing anything even if they did facilitate those of us who're unhappy. So you can skip the self entitled rubbish, a lot of us came here for old games (the clue is in what gog stood for), games that are hard to get working, hard to find or unavailable everywhere else. Indie games easily purchasable from elsewhere are not a good substitution and people have long been stating that 2 game releases a week isn't enough.
It's been barely a week since the site relaunch and their announcement of adopting a new direction in terms of integrating newer games with their classic titles. We've only seen a week's worth of releases, which is just two games.

How is that any justifiable basis for the amount of venom and vitriol that's been directed at GOG, especially when compared against all of the amazing classic games we've seen released not just over the past few months, but the past few weeks? Journeyman Project 3 and Anachronox are best the best examples I can think of.

If this was a consistent pattern we'd been seeing over the course of several months or even several weeks, then yes, I'd be concerned and even a little upset. But then sentiment I've seen here has been a massive overreaction to something that we've just seen, again, for just two releases, in just one week.

Has GOG suddenly stopped selling their classic titles? No. Have they publicly stated that they're going to continue to release old games? Yes. There are plenty of weeks left in the year and plenty more old titles for GOG to release.

I've seen this crop up so much over the past few weeks now that it's started to amuse me more than offend me. GOG releases Conflict: Desert Storm instead of Anachronox one week (which they later end up releasing anyway just 1-2 weeks later) and all of a sudden they're "abandoning their fanbase" and not "listening to their customers" and prompting people to ragequit. Now, they're releasing newer, indie games - something that was actually requested quite a bit during their community-wide survey, by their fans and customers and all of a sudden, after one week, they've suddenly become worse than EA and Activision put together.

And then on top of that, you accuse the people who've been calling people out on their unreasonable freaking out "brown nosers"? With all due respect, I can't see any rational reason to pile hate on GOG for something they're doing that we requested from them, and that they told us well in advance about for weeks.

GOG has been a company that's done a remarkable job of doing right by its customers, compared to what are demonstrably anti-customer practices by companies like EA and Activision...and all it took was one week to erase more than what, four years' worth of good will? And we're the ones in the wrong for not agreeing with you?

Again, with all due respect, how is that not a demonstration of a gross sense of self-entitlement? I'm all for holding GOG accountable for what it says and does, just like any other company, but this is getting massively, massively out of hand.
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