Cyraxpt: Eh, at least they gave up on the idea of a digital store, not sure if i will ever use the coin though...
pablodusk: Did they? I thought they were aiming for the end of the year with that, so could still be in development. Our resident Groupees mole yogsloth would know ;)
The Groupees coins are usable to buy bundles (but not preorders) for now. Soon you'll be able to trade them as well. I intend to collect them for no reason whatsoever. Just for the helluvit.
The digital store is very much still alive, as far as I know. They laid off the gal in charge of developer relations for it, with the understanding that they would re-hire her (well, contract, I think everybody's on a 1099 there) Q4 when the store goes live. It's not like I'm privy to what goes on at Groupees HQ, but all the back-end chatter I do hear is consistent with that scenario.
I can tell you all the back-end tools are essentially in place already for game developers to have their own store pages.