Way back at the start of GoG (I want to say year one), CDP did the "joke" of suddenly taking down the entire site except for a text page saying they are shutting down. I forget if they said that people would have 24 hours to back up their games or if they said we were up shit creek, it doesn't matter.

They then basically said "Ha ha, april fools! But you see, that is why you should buy all your games from us because we are DRM free and you own them". Which... rightfully angered a LOT of people.

So GoG did a video where a "french monk" (which is really weird since they are Polish but...) apologized and gave away a discount code or something. And in The Witcher 2, an NPC was added who alluded to all this and I think gave away a free copy of The Witcher 1 if you beat him at dice poker or whatever?

Short term? It led to a lot of us actually trying to back up our games. And realizing that was not feasible because GoG would almost never post changelogs or let us know which installers had updated versions and ain't nobody got time to manually scrape every download page. Long term? You can generally tell who was a "GoG OG" in that we look at ANY "And we are the best site ever because we have no DRM and preserve everything" bit of PR from GoG/CDP because it is painfully obvious this is just advertisement for them.

[–] JoeKrogan 2 points 3 days ago

Interesting, thanks for taking the time to provide that extra bit of context as my searches for "French monk incident" were way off 😅🤣.