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Comment by thomascountz | Hacker News Reader

In case I'm not the only one who didn't know what GOG stood for:

   “GOG stands for freedom, independence, and genuine control.”

But actually, it stands (stood?) for Good Old Games. :)

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It was "good old games", then they announced that good old games was going away and after everyone panic-downloaded their whole collection they announced that they weren't going anywhere but they were just going to be GOG without it standing for anything.

That was after they had new releases for a while.

GOG marketing team at the time: "Now we do a little trolling".

I stand agog as I breathlessly await the next exciting element of this discussion.

I'm waiting for MAGOG so the Biblical End Times can begin.

The End Times went legacy mode :

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/magog_a_search_engine_for_...

Denoting a translation is not the only thing that "stands for" stands for.

No, it literally doesn't stand for good old games. Not for a very long time.

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