The problem here isn't me trying to twist around anything. The problem here is that you're not making yourself understood nearly as well as you think you are. Are you using a translator? Your grammar is so bad it's really hard to understand a lot of it.

My point of Reddit not being a competitor to GOG is not a good point? Reddit doesn't even sell games. You do realize that GOG is a game store?

And you don't think the other threads got closed because of links to other stores? SmollestLight on the GOG.com Team disagrees with you: "Remember that posting links to giveaways is of course allowed, but any link directing to an external store is considered advertising."

Also, I looked at your linked thread again. Are you talking about Big Fish Games? Do you consider them a competitor to GOG? Big Fish doesn't even get its own individual store info slot on PCGamingWiki. They're not even mentioned on IsThereAnyDeal. Not even GOG considers Big Fish a competitor to GOG.

Anyway, I made my point, and even though you seem to have trouble comprehending it, I'm sure others understood it. I'm also not in the habit of feeding peoples' need for petty squabbles, so have fun, and try to work a bit on your grammar.

You can't even get your argument straight, and you think insulting me about my grammar is going to defend against your poor comprehension? Puh-lease!

You weren't talking about Reddit when you complained that, "GOG will see it as advertising for another platform". Not to mention, you just suddenly sprung this information in a thread some 5,000+ comments later, in a place that has a history of being monitored by mods and allowed to prosper in the same way it has been all these years. You're reaching.

Cool. But you are missing the point. And even weaponizing that quote would show that by your logic, any remaining unlocked thread would violate that rule and should be locked. I can see who people can blame for that.

I'm not talking about any specific thing. That was an example of everything contrary to your premise. But if you want to argue about Big Fish, they are, by definition, a competitor.

PCGW is not the arbiter of everything in the universe. They don't cover all games from platforms like Kartridge, JAST and Indiegala, which consist of some games I could also find in other major platforms. They don't have everything on that site. Your argument here is pointless.

You didn't make any point. You seem to want to dictate threads while ruining it for everyone just because you couldn't deal with someone's reminder of an impending giveaway. You're distorting and making the weakest arguments which don't hold water to any reasonable person. You could've been realistic instead of starting the squabble to overreact to the post.

Oh, you're still at it? Haven't bothered to read more of your rant, but I'll advise you to stay away from sunlight.

I can think of many reasons to post early. Time management is one, sometimes it is difficult to claim a game when away from home when the time limits are short.

Take this scenario. If say the game is not going to be free until noon tomorrow, I might want it to post about it the night before because I'm going to be busy at work at noon tomorrow. If the game is only going to be available for one day, you'll miss half the time if I don't get around to it until after dinner at 7pm.

Another example. If the game is only going to have a very narrow window of 24 hours or less to claim it, letting people know in advance so they can set aside time to do so might be a good idea. Otherwise I might log in and find I missed the opportunity because I was busy until 9pm and I only had until 8pm and nobody posted until the game was available at 9am that morning when i was busy at work and didn't get home until after 7 because I had to run an errand, then immediately started making dinner because I was hungry.

Stop beating a dead horse. The only information that is relevant to what I warned about in the Massive Giveaways Blog is this:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gaming_deals_thread/post69035

If you want to try and change GOG's policy regarding advertisment for other game stores, you can take it up directly with them. Try the support forum.

Quit wasting peoples time here.


Edit: Also, you quoted drxenija with my statement :\

Heck, I know I've a few missed opportunities because an announcement came late, or after the fact. It's the worst feeling ever.

Every company can be trusted when money is involved. Especially publicly traded ones.
You can trust that they will do what is most profitable for them above most other concerns. Sometimes that is in the short term, sometimes it is in the long term, but you can bet they will do what they think will earn them the most profits.

Recently I missed out on a starred game from the community giveaway for kingdom come deliverance. The more I looked into it the more interesting it seemed to me.

Are there any sites left that give out halfway decent games besides Epic? What do you suppose the likelihood might be that someone will give out KCD? Isthereanydeal says that it's currently selling at it's lowest point on every platform for $8 for the complete version and that a KCD 2 is set to release this year. Maybe Epic would give out copies soon to raise interest in #2?

Sometimes Steam has giveaways, sometimes Fanatical.
I made a list of all the sources I know of free games on another board here, and I'll post the link because copy/paste causes massive formatting issues on this board:
https://sorcerers.net/community/threads/free-games-on-gog-com-epic-store-and-more.88418/page-7#post-851988

Note that includes several threads on GoG which if you combine 3 of the tend to get 95% of all the giveaways, but occasionally misses ones on Steam .
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/massive_giveaways_blog/page106
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_expiring_codes_clearinghouse_thread/page42
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_temporary_keys_giveaway_central_topic/page188
Also
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_free_games_on_gog/page17

I used to regularly check the ZOOM Platform store, but mostly stopped doing that a good while ago, because most of the prices just put me off.

Anyway, I finally got around to do a proper check there, and discovered that they had added two new free permanent games, though both are also here.

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

But this post is not really about them.

What I also discovered, by working through all the NEWS pages there looking for Update notifications, was that many of the games I own at ZP, when checked, have had free soundtracks or music added. A good number of them are or were free games.

i.e. Postal 1, Postal III, Shadow Warrior, Advent Rising, Killing Time, Duke Nukem 3D - Atomic Edition, etc.

I forgot to mention last post, that many of the games I have at ZOOM Platform, have now also had a MAC and or Linux version added.

I have 38 games at ZP, ... 22 of those I got for free.

I'd like to buy more there, but they are just too expensive most of the time, especially as can be seen with any same games also available at GOG and cheaper at GOG.

Anyway, for those who haven't checked them out yet, they are a DRM-Free store, and they have a dozen or so free games, some of which are not at GOG or not free at GOG.

Long Live DRM-Free
Long Live GOG
Long Live ZP

ZOOM Platform is a shady store. Everyone should really think twice before throwing money down that rathole.

Mate we know of your long prejudice against that store, and not based on anything reasonable, just a bias built on misconceptions and what seems pretty clear to me ... nonsense.

They are just like any legit store out there, but one of the few that are totally DRM-Free.

Anyway, a decent thinking person would check them out for themselves, and not rely on your silly warning.

And I say all that as someone who prefers GOG for my gaming needs.

The people in their Discord channel and people like you might want to get fooled by them. If you actually try to do some research on them you will see how shady and what a bunch of liars they are. It is not nonsense. I wouldn't had a problem with them if they were a normal store like FireFlower Games.

The only nonsense that is happening here is the mindless and imbecile advertising of ZP in this forum. This is why I repeat myself. Everyone should really think twice before throwing money down that rathole.

And before you go on, I point out that your ZP advertisement posts are entirely off-topic. This thread is about giveaways on other stores. It is also meant to be a discussion thread for these two threads

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

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

ZP currently doesn't have any giveaways. Freeware games aren't giveaways.