I can't get onto the site at the moment, but here's the Google cached page. What a damn shame, it was a great idea and a wonderful service.

Their Twitter feed seems to indicate problems with publishers-

"Sometimes it's really hard being DRM-free... hard to keep things the way they are and keep management and publishers happy :("

What's the betting some short-sighted publisher has pulled the plug on them?

Wow, that sucks.

Why would someone pull the plug on them? I'm pretty sure some money is better than nothing. Which is the main alternative for many of the old games they had, now (piracy, that is).

Given the breathtaking stupidity that seems rife in large parts of the game industry, I wouldn't put it past them preferring to have their old games rotting in a vault earning nothing rather than releasing them DRM-free and maybe having the dreaded pirates pick them up (as if they can't pick up cracked copies of any game anyway).

One slightly reassuring thing is that it looks unlikely that CD Projekt have pulled the service due to financial problems- if that was the issue, then I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have gone instantaneously and there would have been some sort of closing down sale.

Hmm, wait a sec, Adrian Werner reckons it's a stunt to mark GOG coming out of Beta-

Well lets hope for the best... GoG deserves to live on, and Im certain that no publisher would say no for some free money, made from old software

I came on here to make this topic.

I'm so bitterly disappointed it isn't even funny. They were my favorite PC gaming service, bar none.

I'm not holding out hope for it just coming out of beta. I'll assume the worst until shown otherwise.

I'm with Khuutra.  I love GOG, they are just so damn convenient and cheap.  I really hope they make it, this site needs to continue on! 

Some hope for Khuutra at the bottom of the article-

Update: GOG's PR man Tom Ohle has responded, saying, "As the message on the site says, this doesn't mean GOG is gone. We'll have more to share in the coming days. No need to jump to conclusions :)"

Either suggests it's a PR stunt for moving into Beta (if so, it's a really fucking stupid stunt and whoever dreamt it up should be savagely beaten...) or, as a few others have suggested, the site is being taken over by a new parent company. All very odd.

I'm assuming Tom Ohle is 'Evolve Tom' a CD Projekt rep who posts on NeoGAF, so hopefully he'll find time to swing by there with more info.

If it comes back with DRM I'm gonna be ultra pissed.