Anybody know what happened to GoGamer.com ?

[Sulaco]

The site has been down for several months, but there was always a message saying they were just revamping the site, and it would be back up shortly.
That was in May and before...

Now, upon going there, all you see is...well...take a look:

www.gogamer.com

Part of their URL now is "/shop_closed". Permanently? Anyone know?

Their 48 hour madness sales usually had some great deals, rivaling many of the STEAM and digital sales out there now. It would be sad to see them go...

 

[masterxfob]

that's too bad. the place really did have some great deals.

 

[jlee]

That explains why I haven't been getting 48hr madness emails lately.

 

[motsm]

I noticed they were liquidating their stock over at the Amazon marketplace not too long ago, not that much was left by the time I noticed. Though they still have a few things listed there now.

 

[dud]

Bummer ...

Competion is good for gamer ... it keeps prices down.

 

[brandonb]

There is a guy at GoGamer named Jason that went into game development and created the game - Rise of Flight. I'm not sure if he was the owner of GoGamer or just an employee or what, but I know they have been very active on that game, and may have neglected or gave up being a store. Not sure.

 

[crownjules]

Bummer ...

Competion is good for gamer ... it keeps prices down.

Yeah, but you have to admit there was probably too many for the market to handle. Steam is obviously the biggest DD. There's D2D and GamersGate that also fill the same space. GOG specializes in just older games. Plus you have Microsoft, EA, and Blizzard all with their own game catalogs online and probably other companies as well. And there's probably a dozen or so other niche distribution services, whether for certain game genres from lesser known devs or country/region/language specific ones.

 

[pontifex]

I thought there was a message not that long ago that said they were re-vamping the site or something. is it now officially out of business?

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Yeah, but you have to admit there was probably too many for the market to handle. Steam is obviously the biggest DD. There's D2D and GamersGate that also fill the same space. GOG specializes in just older games. Plus you have Microsoft, EA, and Blizzard all with their own game catalogs online and probably others. And there's probably a dozen or so other niche distribution services, whether for certain game genres from lesser known devs or country/region/language specific ones.

Er, GoGamer had a download services?

 

[crownjules]

Er, GoGamer had a download services?

Wasn't it DD? If not, then all the more reason why they'd fail. Even Amazon is switching over to DD since less and less sales are for physical boxed copies.

 

[Via]

Too bad, that place was great.

I got at least 30+ boxed games from them, often 5 or 6 at a time. I just open Call of Juarez, game I got from them years ago.

 

[BoberFett]

I bought a lot of stuff from them. Realized a month or two ago that I wasn't get their emails anymore. I remember seeing that message about revamping, it'd be a shame if they closed up for good.

 

[lupi]

you should find the thread were I asked this for the answer

 

[JujuFish]

Shame. I loved 48 hour madness deals.

 

[Bateluer]

Dang. I bought a lot of cheap boxed games from them.