If you have purchased anything from Games Republic, you may want to ensure you have grabbed all your keys as they are shutting down.
They didn't give a reason, but they announced they have already disabled game purchases.
From their announcement:
I think they had a nice store, but competition is pretty high with Steam, GOG, itch.io and many more so it's a pretty hard business to make your mark in. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
They didn't give a reason, but they announced they have already disabled game purchases.
From their announcement:
QuoteDear customers,
We've decided to shut down GamesRepublic.com with the end of the year. Today we're disabling the possibility to purchase games in our store. You will be able to log in to your account to download your purchased games and activation codes till the end of January.
Remember that you can log in to your Games Republic account to download your games and activation codes till 31st of January 2017.
After that date you won't be able to log in to your account.
On behalf of the entire Games Republic Team we'd like to thank you very much for all your support. It was great building Games Republic together.
If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected].
I think they had a nice store, but competition is pretty high with Steam, GOG, itch.io and many more so it's a pretty hard business to make your mark in. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Whaa…? I just registered an account there two weeks ago. That's not fair!
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Soltrumman Dec 12, 2016
A bit sad to see Games Republic close shop, but not very surprising. It felt like a very generic store with a pretty weak unique selling point in the user curated stores. Very small library of games, even more so when it came to Linux games, and the same prices as everyone else on indies and AAA games. I don't think they ever gave me a reason to shop there instead of Humble Store (Steam + DRM-free + charity), GOG (DRM-free), Steam (convenience) or Itch (the weird indie stuff).
Maybe the lesson here is that if you don't offer anything special people might take their shopping elsewhere.
Maybe the lesson here is that if you don't offer anything special people might take their shopping elsewhere.
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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHGqnZGmXdgJ:https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/5eqmrf/games_republic_civilization_vi_digital_deluxe/+&cd=2&;
I believe this is the reason, people could buy Civ VI heavily reduced. But due to it being in error - it was supposed to be 10% and not 80%, the shop took the hit.
One can only imagine how just how many people took advantage of this deal as it was on reddit.
Last edited by Zaxth on 12 December 2016 at 2:55 pm UTC
I believe this is the reason, people could buy Civ VI heavily reduced. But due to it being in error - it was supposed to be 10% and not 80%, the shop took the hit.
One can only imagine how just how many people took advantage of this deal as it was on reddit.
Last edited by Zaxth on 12 December 2016 at 2:55 pm UTC
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Soltrumman Dec 12, 2016
They canceled all the orders for Civ VI and those who bought it got the game removed from their Steam accounts and a refund, at least according to later posts in that reddit thread. Sure it must have cost a bit to issue refunds but not enough to have to close the store unless they were hanging on a thread already.
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Mountain Man Dec 12, 2016
I took a chance on them a few months ago because they had a good deal, and I was assured that the keys were legit. They gave me two of their own games for free as a bonus -- both of which are completely broken on Linux and which they have refused to fix despite knowing about these problems for some time. I didn't think much of them after that, so I'm not particularly surprised to see them close up shop.
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Such a shame, I have bought a few titles over the year from them when the price was competitive, mainly to support GOL.
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PublicNuisance Dec 12, 2016
Sad to see them go but I never bought anything from them. Like others have said they didn't stand out. For DRM free games I have itch and GOG. For DRM games I have Feral store and Steam.
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