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== Slipped ==
* [[My SpaceMyspace]] resorted to a [[Retool]] in Fall 2010 due to fewer and fewer people using the site, having lost most of them to [[Facebook]]. The new CEO proclaimed that [[My SpaceMyspace]] is no longer a social network, but "Social Entertainment", revamping itself into an entertainment site and alienating the few people who still used the site. This included a new logo, new homepage and a new profile layout. They were about to force everyone to upgrade their profiles to the new layout (considering how many [[My SpaceMyspace]] sites are [[Mirror-Cracking Ugly]], this was considered an improvement) when the uproars of [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] caused them to back down and allow users to change their profiles back to how they originally looked, glitter GIFs and all. This still hasn't stopped people from abandoning the site, unfortunately, and it was sold for a pittance to a group which includes an ad agency and [[Justin Timberlake]].
* The Good Old Games digital distribution was designed to 1: provide quality old games, 2: do so at low prices and, 3: With no [[DRM]]. It has always had a few newish titles in it's library, though all very much [[Cult Classic|Cult Classics]] (Like ''[[Psychonauts]]'' and ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'') and the newest titles being sequels (like one would get in the bundles that one would otherwise buy to get the old games) or spiritual successors to games that fit (Such as [[UFO Afterblank]] to the not carried X-Com). The 2nd part has slipped a little more, with almost all new titles being offered for the maximum $9.99. The 3rd is still steady though. It has been announced the system will carry ''[[The Witcher]] 2'', though this is because of the obvious advantages ([[Money, Dear Boy|GOG is run by the same company, making it more profitable than other digital distribution networks]] as well as keeping the game DRM free.)
** As of March 2012, the site may be on the verge of total abandonment since it has fully rebranded itself as "GOG.com" and announced a bunch of indie but recent games such as ''[[Trine]]'' and ''[[Space Chem]]''. A rep claimed “What the letters stand for doesn’t matter so much as what we stand for, which is quality gaming with no DRM and at fair prices”.
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