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Gog games has now become a invite only site (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] sunbrothersco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Recognizing their hard work, it would have been helpful if they had occasionally issued public appeals for donations, similar to FitGirl. Numerous sailors are eager to assist such a great site and would be prepared to donate or advocate for their continuity.

Their main issue is prematurely assuming negative outcomes without providing the community with an opportunity to extend meaningful support. Additionally, their communication has been somewhat ambiguous and mysterious (and still is), causing confusion among users.

[–] Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They do occasionally ask for money, but their messaging was always a bit weird.

While I agree their communications could be vague in some respects, I feel like the actual issue was that they were too specific in one way. They've been clear for a long time that further donations go to buying games from GOG so they can put them on the site (they were clear that they have enough recurring donations to cover the site itself.) The fact that they do this is why they update so much faster than everyone else, since other sites have to wait for games to appear elsewhere and few people bother to distribute updates outside of major ones.

But I think that this meant that there was a lack of urgency that deterred people from donating. If they just said "give us money if you want us to keep doing this" I suspect people would have donated more.

I wonder what happened, though? Something made them change course over just a few days - as recently as March 11th, they were posting updates on their Mastodon account.

Even weirder, the site now has a link to a changlog, listing games they've uploaded but which are not available to anyone except people who were invited.

[–] ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

and can make contributions to this endeavor

maybe they want to make it like a private tracker ? e.g. you can only download if you contribute too

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

Bout to be the most private site in the world if no one can make an account. If they think I’m going to keep checking daily to see when they’re “open” I’ve got some bad news for their future plans.

[–] Xirup@yiffit.net 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Friendly reminder that you can still access the site via Tor, simply access the official GoG-Games Mastodon account and copy the address where it says 'Tor', now copy the address into the Tor browser and that's it!

Remember that you should not download the file through Tor, you should simply obtain the file address to download it through your regular browser.

Sometimes it takes a long time to connect or gives a connection timed out error, but at least for me it eventually works after a while.

Edit: Stop upvoting me, it seems they not only deleted the link to the tor site, but when you try to access it, it tells you that the site doesn't exist anymore. :(

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you are a genius

[–] 007ace@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Seems like there are a lot of us trying to access this way. I keep getting a time out error now.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 45 points 8 months ago

This whole thing has seemed weird since he announced it was going private, but had no way to make an account.

Did the feds get to him?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Everybody getting fomo here hee hee