It turns out Good Old Games' out-of-nowhere shutdown Saturday is a matter of evolution, not death. Dressed as monks and saying they had "sinned" and want to be the No. 1 alternative to digital-download service Steam, representatives of the classic-PC-games download service announced Wednesday that they had revamped the site, "apologized" for the site's shutdown, and announced the addition of one of the most significant titles in role-playing-game development to its catalog: Baldur's Gate.
The site should be up at 9 a.m. Eastern (6 a.m. Pacific). Good Old Games users will have access to their old games, be able to purchase new games and enjoy the new features, and buy Baldur's Gate and its expansion.
"We are here today to beg your pardon and ask redemption. We have sinned. We are here today to express our humble apologies to all of the users that got surprised by the closure of GOG and could not access games they purchased. Unfortunately, closure of website was needed from a technical perspective. We are sad that happened and will make sure it will never happen again," said the brother monks. They admitted that they had "played a game with press and users," leaving clues about the site's return.
Most of the new features focus on making the site easier to navigate and friendlier to users. These improvements include (among others) a faster-loading site, a streamlined registration process, more interaction with community through ratings and "GOGMixes," which allow users to create lists to share knowledge about games (and other users can rank 'em); a download bar that calculates downloads based on your connection speed, a Facebook "Like" button.
Good Old Games also said that 150 of their titles now operate with Windows 7 and are working to make the rest of the catalog compatible.
Backed by The Witcher developer CD Projekt, Good Old Games launched in September 2008.
Update: Good Old Games spokesperson Lukasz Kukawski confirms that the "brother monks" were GOG Managing Director Guillaume Rambourg and Marcin Iwinski, the cofounder of CD Project and GOG.com.
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