AlexY: I understood it as 3 sooner - 2 later. Alright, 3 publishers for sure, then.

GameRager: A. Now you tell me this. :P :) Nope won't flay ya alive, but I MAY put ya in the Iron Maiden for a bit.

AlexY: I understood it as 3 sooner - 2 later. Alright, 3 publishers for sure, then.

jpinsa: LOL! Point is, some are going to love and some hate. As I said, I am not particularly loyal to GOG or to Steam for tha matter, I'll buy the games from whoever has them, but what keeps me here is the fact that they are DRM free, so that is a feather in their caps.

spindown: Why is it that you can't express dissatisfaction on the internet without being called a whiner? I think bazilisek explained very calmly and clearly why he and others, including me, are not thrilled about GOG's latest antics.

Some of the people defending GOG after their new PR stunt are missing the point. We are not complaining because we don't like what GOG announced today, but because they intentionally used misleading marketing to fool people into expecting something awesome that turned out to be little more than hot air (The Witcher 2, the new downloader etc. don't count because they were not part of the tease).

The GOG marketers knew exactly what they were doing by releasing these mysterious clues on the front page -- namely getting people to get each other all excited and to expect that EA or LucasArts would join GOG. Please don't insult our intelligence by pretending otherwise.

Don't waste my time is all I'm asking, basically. Your announcements are interesting enough, there is no need to create hype and false expectations. I happen to like this place, but cheap PR stunts only serve to erode the sympathy I feel towards GOG.

jpinsa: I too don't see the problem with bazilisek's post. The fact is that GOG kept on talking about the BIG day, what were we supposed to think? Atari and Witcher could have been a normal Tue or Thu news release.

jpinsa: Only sad thing for me is now I gotta wait through many weeks of Atari releases *sigh* *bored* before they are even gonna think of announcing the next publisher!

bazilisek: That GOG will release a new game from an already signed publisher each week from now until May. That is not news, no matter how you look at it. That is what the site does. Standard operation.

Zeewolf: Yeah, this.

I'm obviously glad GOG got more Atari-games, but along with everyone else I was expecting that to happen anyway. I was TBH more excited with the FunBox-signing (largely because the two releases were surprising(!) and very promising).

The press conference in itself was cool, but all that hinting and hyping beforehand was a bit much, considering that only two of the questions GOG asked were actually answered, and the fact that the most exciting piece of news from the press conference didn't have anything to do with the hints at all...

Looking forward to seeing what new games we get, anyway. Hopefully they are worth the hype. :-)

jpinsa: I think if there is anything to be learned by GOG tonight (today for some), it's that a huge majority of goggers think that the hype was a bit over the top and slightly misleading. I hope this is discussed at your their management meeting.

Kurina: Goodness.

I personally do not see the major problem here, or see the conference as something worth getting on GOG's case for. People are criticizing them for hyping things up to a massive degree, but as mentioned before, we are all to blame. We let our imaginations run wild with speculation, and got our hopes up a great deal. Taking a look at the news page, it only says "revealing cool stuff," not a publisher. We let ourselves get out of control, imho.

Still though, I walked away from the conference happy. They showed five major publishers who are they are working hard with to get games on here. One of which we know for sure is signed, and two more are extremely likely later in the year. 25 games from one of those publishers will be arriving shortly. I am excited to see which ones.

I went in expecting a publisher announcement as well, and even though it wasn't named, I am not sure how we can be disappointed in GOG. Obviously some great stuff is on the way, and they are simply teasing us a bit longer. Personally, it was fun speculating, even if it means I may not be getting TIE Fighter or Dungeon Keeper anytime soon, but maybe I will, who knows! Still holding out hope

jpinsa: I think if there is anything to be learned by GOG tonight (today for some), it's that a huge majority of goggers think that the hype was a bit over the top and slightly misleading. I hope this is discussed at your their management meeting.