Heeeey, welcome to the club! :D


I could go on and on about the insanity of slapping crapcha on everything. And since gog has some particularly bright bulbs working for them, they decided to hide signing up for the Galaxy 2.0 beta behind a crapcha as well.

So I sez to support, I sez: "This is not a smart idea! Crapcha is provided by google and this service is blocked in China. You're effectively locking an entire country (and a potentially lucrative market) out of betatesting your new client for you."

I mean, this kind of feedback might be pretty valuable. For instance the download speeds on gog have improved SIGNIFICANTLY here in China, most likely due to extensive feedback and testing I provided to them (no need to thank me all at once!). But gog apparently didn't see it that way and right now their priority is slapping crapcha all over everything. At least they're not quite as bad as Humble, where you're literally locked out of your library thanks to crapcha.

Ok let me (pseudo mathematically) extrapolate this: I have to play some Email 'game' 20 times. Then I got to solve 20 captcha. Then I enter 20 weird codes somewhere. And then I get some random game (which I probably didnt want in the first place anyway) for free. I dont know how much money people here earn and how well they like or dislike their job. But I would much rather pay the full price for a game than put up with this. And if I do some work its (hopeful) somewhat useful. I really dont see solving captcha like that. Its worse than digging holes and filling them afterwards.

Edit: Maybe this is some experiment by some (questionably motivated) people at GOG: Lets see how much customers are willing to put up with or sth.

You still have to pay for the game in the end, nothing is free but the time you spent filling captchas for Google ;)

I had to solve the captcha just once. Only 4 games get the 5% discount. Are these the same for everybody?

Paradigm
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
True Fear: Forsaken Souls
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2

Yes, as evidenced by the people who just plastered the discount codes into existing threads.

Yeah, once you solved the captcha for a game, it remained solved for that game on revisits.

What? GoG sends out discount codes? Hm, that`s new.

You can hardly call it a game really, and I failed to see any riddle ... a mystery maybe.
You just hovered your mouse over sections of an image looking for hotspot links.
The image is a collage of clues (images) i guess, relating to some games.
Reputedly fun, but it did not feel that way to me ... especially with captcha ... and having to remember where you last clicked.

Most of the hotspot links took you to the current Sales web page.
The rare one took you to the regular Redeem page, with a pre-filled code.
You don't know what game the code was for, until you did the captcha at least once ... one game took me 3 goes.
You still had to pay for the game, but you got a bonus 5% off the current sale price ... so a 50% discount became 55%.