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Posted April 11, 2015
*ding*

If you’ve been hanging around for a while, especially in the <a href=”"[url=http://www.gog.com/games">games]http://www.gog.com/games">games[/url] tab</a>, you may have noticed that the growing number of items on our virtual shelf was inching closer and closer to our very first thousand - lo and behold, just this week we made it through our first 1k.

We could start off by thanking the Academy, our moms, and hoping for world peace - and it's not that we don't want to say all those things, but before we do, we want to thank the most important people that made it possible - all of YOU. It may sound a bit turgid and you might not believe that we're tearing up a little as we click "publish" on this piece of news, but you guys are the ones that make GOG.com what it is and our reason to continue bringing you more great games.

Before we break out the fruit punch, though, we want to honor those of you who almost caught up with us. We dug through our records and picked fifty users that have the most boxes on their own virtual shelves.







Let's all give an alphabetically ordered round of applause to:

Antarian, astrugar710, atomsword, AutumnYears, baketomato, Barry_Woodward, benjam47, budejovice, CuriousTwoAtGOG, Darthmort, Disciple_of_Doom, djr155, DonCorleon, Gersen, gorrrrrr, Heirgeir, howardtduck2005, ilcollezionista, jabba1971, JDelekto, KajQrd, kiwy, Kodijack, kotokimura, Lafazar, liquidBass, lobo_1, Loenas, maweball, mrkgnao, MTR77, Murfallo, mwmwm, n0nam3, OlK76, onthemike, palyea, Pantoprazol, sbaylus, Serpico, ShadowWulfe, Silvanus2004, soulroar, tippete, TrevWar, turbond, vasyl, VuA, xckx, and ZombieGum.








We will be contacting these guys personally for T-shirt sizes and mailing addresses for a little, personalized thank-you. We are off to celebrate - but before we go, here's to another thousand digital boxes on the GOG.com shelf!
Posted April 12, 2015
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BAZ: Is this why you "split" games up in our library? So you can reach 1,000* games more quickly?
The unbundling only affected the numbers in one's library, not in the catalog (since there are no individual store pages for the unbundled games as of yet).
Posted April 12, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Regardless, every customer has played a part in GOG's success. Seems a bit uneven to put those with the most purchases on a pedestal while disregarding the rest.
Why? It's cool that GOG has seen fit to reward its best customers, those who have bought pretty much everything that the store has to offer. Yes, every customer has been a part of GOG's success, but these people went all the way. They didn't just buy the selection of games they wanted, they bought everything.

No customer deserves to get anything from GOG, except what GOG already gives, the store with all its benefit, from DRM-free to returns to old games. And yet GOG has given us a lot of extra stuff over the years, including free games. But when customers start demanding that, that's the time when GOG should step back and say: "okay, we've started a crowd of freeloaders, maybe we should stop that."
Posted April 12, 2015
Well, congrats gog. :)
Posted April 12, 2015
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jacobmarner: Wow, gratz. And gratz to the top 50.

I have 948 games on GOG, but that was clearly not enough to be in top 50. These guys must have *a lot* of games.
949 :-D And 13 movies. Definitely not enough! :-P
Posted April 12, 2015
It's no surprise that GOG has made announcements which are probably best left unsaid. In fact, I didn't know that I would have been named in their top 50.

I think it's really a cool PR move to send their top 50 gifts, but at the same time, it's not cool to point fingers. As the old adage goes, if you point a finger at someone, there are three more pointing back at you.

I believe in investing in "good old games", and that they invest in new games, I appreciate that as well. GOG has been one of my "go to" sites these days, just to see what I'm missing.

Everyone makes mistakes including me. Just recognize it, see what it affects, then let your boss know you have to fix it.
Posted April 12, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Regardless, every customer has played a part in GOG's success. Seems a bit uneven to put those with the most purchases on a pedestal while disregarding the rest.
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ET3D: Why? It's cool that GOG has seen fit to reward its best customers, those who have bought pretty much everything that the store has to offer. Yes, every customer has been a part of GOG's success, but these people went all the way. They didn't just buy the selection of games they wanted, they bought everything.

No customer deserves to get anything from GOG, except what GOG already gives, the store with all its benefit, from DRM-free to returns to old games. And yet GOG has given us a lot of extra stuff over the years, including free games. But when customers start demanding that, that's the time when GOG should step back and say: "okay, we've started a crowd of freeloaders, maybe we should stop that."
It would have been a smarter move for the image they're trying to push to go with something more inclusive.
Right now, the community flag flying while disregarding 99.999 percent of it seems a little disingenuous.
Just slightly.

Not really looking for another free game either, honestly. Averaging roughly 43 games a month purchased for the last 17 months, I don't need more. (And no, my buying that many doesn't make me a better customer than someone else who cares about GOG but doesn't have the means to hit every sale like there's no tomorrow. It just means I'm a person with shitty impulse control.)
Post edited April 12, 2015 by CarrionCrow
Posted April 12, 2015
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Licurg: Only 278 for me... Still a long way to go .
You and me both :) I had a 296 or so games before unbundling, now 309 (I bought cca. on or two after unbundling).

Still, impressive numbers with so many with all those high number of games, I always thought having cca. 1/3 of the catalog meant being amongst one of the few... well, seems I was wrong :D

And I am surprised not to see IAmSinistar among first 50, though I am sure he is on the heels of it :)
Post edited April 12, 2015 by Tarhiel
Posted April 12, 2015
Congratulations to GOG and especially to anybody approaching that amount of games, I don't think all my PC and console games added together would approach that, well done!
Posted April 12, 2015
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CarrionCrow: It would have been a smarter move for the image they're trying to push to go with something more inclusive.
Right now, the community flag flying while disregarding 99.999 percent of it seems a little disingenuous.
Just slightly.
Perhaps, but I don't really feel that. I mean, they thanked everyone, but picked the top 50 to give something extra. So? What would you have them do? To have total equality you need to either give everyone something or give everyone nothing. IMO neither is a great solution. Rewarding recurring customers is a reasonable solution, and then you have to cut the line somewhere. GOG decided on a certain point, and I think that people should accept that.

They could have done something like a sale with the discount being based on the percentage of the GOG catalog one owns, but that would have been meant that the people least needing of it get the highest discount. So I don't think there's a perfect solution.
Posted April 12, 2015
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CarrionCrow: It would have been a smarter move for the image they're trying to push to go with something more inclusive.
Right now, the community flag flying while disregarding 99.999 percent of it seems a little disingenuous.
Just slightly.
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ET3D: Perhaps, but I don't really feel that. I mean, they thanked everyone, but picked the top 50 to give something extra. So? What would you have them do? To have total equality you need to either give everyone something or give everyone nothing. IMO neither is a great solution. Rewarding recurring customers is a reasonable solution, and then you have to cut the line somewhere. GOG decided on a certain point, and I think that people should accept that.

They could have done something like a sale with the discount being based on the percentage of the GOG catalog one owns, but that would have been meant that the people least needing of it get the highest discount. So I don't think there's a perfect solution.
There's more than two options for the situation.

Dual-purpose alternative -
1. Make a video and post it on the site. Something silly, something cheesy, something edited for maximum heartfelt effect, possibly including such things as banners and/or cakes with large amounts of candles.
Hell, the video can even be on the cringeworthy side, but it has to feel sincere. It's what the company's using to get the customer to bond with it, establish some kind of positive feeling beyond paying money for goods.

A customer can pay for goods at a number of stores, after all. Having the superior product helps quite a bit, but that emotion is what will get people to feel good about spending more and more on products, even after rationality tries to put the brakes on.

2. Host a giveaway. This is really basic, but it's a great way to make people feel included without having to give them a frigging thing.
Load up a page, put the silly/semi-crappy video on there, type something sufficiently gushy about the community as a whole, say you're hosting the giveaway, end up giving a few products out with a bare minimum of effort required.

Potential bonus if you put something high demand in that giveaway so you get maximum coverage, rather than older games where more than a few people already have them.

And of course there are more creative options, undoubtedly. This is just the crap coming to mind before my first pot of coffee.
Posted April 12, 2015
Nah,... ET3D is right. Guess I'm old school and don't expect everybody in the classroom to get a gold star. I' m not crying about it. Gog is the best thing since Swiss cheese...
Posted April 12, 2015
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Barry_Woodward: I actually have 1162 digital boxes (1110 games + 52 movies) on my shelf.
Are you sure about that number ? is it from GoG game page or from another tools ? Because I am only missing Dark Matter and I am at 1112.
Posted April 12, 2015
I don't see any reason to complain that only a few were rewarded. Seems fair to me they spent the most money here if you base it on game / movie numbers in their accounts so they showed much loyalty.

I'm certainly not worried. Plus side benefit is my wardrobe is backed with t-shirts (I wouldn't have been able to have fit another one in anyway if I had have been in the top 50).

Keep it digital, which is one reason I turned to GOG, getting rid of all those physical game cases taking up valuable room.
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Barry_Woodward: I actually have 1162 digital boxes (1110 games + 52 movies) on my shelf.
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Gersen: Are you sure about that number ? is it from GoG game page or from another tools ? Because I am only missing Dark Matter and I am at 1112.
Your counting the movies as well I'm assuming?
Post edited April 12, 2015 by deonast
Posted April 12, 2015
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deonast: Your counting the movies as well I'm assuming?
No, only games. (1112 games, 52 movies) But of course this number is kind of "phony" as for example GoG counts the "Hotline Miami 2 digital comic" as a "game".
Post edited April 12, 2015 by Gersen
Posted April 12, 2015
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Gersen: Are you sure about that number ? is it from GoG game page or from another tools ? Because I am only missing Dark Matter and I am at 1112.
[url=http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Barry_Woodward]http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Barry_Woodward[/url]
Post edited April 12, 2015 by Barry_Woodward
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