What's the prank? That article just says gog.com went offline.
Or, to this day.
Kind of reminds me of the Funnybot episode of South Park.
I for one think the prank that GOG pulled is HILARIOUS
It was a marketing prank. Someone, high up in their company, thought it would be HIGH HUMOR to pretend their site went down before users could download their drm free games. They relaunched a completely new redesigned site a few days later, but this was a mistkae.
I still haven't forgotten or forgiven about this, but I still buy from them because the alternative is much worst.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...
Update: the highlight for anyone who doesn't care to follow a random link:
> The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”