Posted June 22, 2023
My view is that there are two defining traits of the Community Giveaway:
1) Only users who are known to be active on the GOG.com forum are eligible.
2) If you're eligible and a game is available when you post the request, you get it, no luck (other than happening to see the game before someone else gets it) or other conditions involved.
Changing any of that will make this no longer be the Community Giveaway but something else. No amount of arguments or explanations will change that.
Now, with the number of donated games falling, a very good question is whether the one game per month limit is still appropriate. May be useful to increase it unless there's a flood of donations.
Another would be whether the eligibility requirements shouldn't be stricter in general. Or at least for such costly titles. Though, again, that's harder to police.
Yet another would be whether those who'd donate expensive, highly desirable titles shouldn't be perhaps more encouraged to make their own giveaways I guess.
But changing the very foundation, no. Frankly, it's akin to GOG's "Good News" from 2014, dropping the second clear, specific principle. Had quite enough of that from suits, really don't want to see it from the community as well...
1) Only users who are known to be active on the GOG.com forum are eligible.
2) If you're eligible and a game is available when you post the request, you get it, no luck (other than happening to see the game before someone else gets it) or other conditions involved.
Changing any of that will make this no longer be the Community Giveaway but something else. No amount of arguments or explanations will change that.
Now, with the number of donated games falling, a very good question is whether the one game per month limit is still appropriate. May be useful to increase it unless there's a flood of donations.
Another would be whether the eligibility requirements shouldn't be stricter in general. Or at least for such costly titles. Though, again, that's harder to police.
Yet another would be whether those who'd donate expensive, highly desirable titles shouldn't be perhaps more encouraged to make their own giveaways I guess.
But changing the very foundation, no. Frankly, it's akin to GOG's "Good News" from 2014, dropping the second clear, specific principle. Had quite enough of that from suits, really don't want to see it from the community as well...