I check daily to see if anything has been added to GOG connect. Considering the nearly 800 games i own on Steam and how many of them exist on GOG it seems a little odd to me that after the initial roll out I only once saw anything added a couple days later and then zero since.

Did I miss the memo?

The link to it still works but it never has anything to offer. Before some self-righteous person comes along to chastise me for being entitled, impatient or whatever - I'm not. I just wonder if it is worth bothering with anymore, is the program dead pretty much, sleeping, was some announcement made i missed?

The way it is setup you need to check daily to ensure you don't miss the window of time something will be available. This is good for driving site visits and I am fine with that but not if the bait never catches any fish. I'll stop fishing I guess if there's no fish to be had is what I mean - not to be confused with not visiting GOG but simply not doing this thing anymore.

I cannot find anything any longer about the whole connect thingy :-( Where does one connect with that connect service?

Let me guess, a rumour started by you?

Why don't you go back to origin and stay there if its so great

You seem a bit frustrated today. Why don't you make yourself a cup of tea?

GOG connect is a limited time promotion, like the free System Shock 2 during the Summer Sale, or the other free games at various times. Having GOG connect active during Steam's Summer Sale would be idiotic, since it would entice people to buy a game on Steam and get it on GOG.

My guess would be that GOG connect will return at some point later this year, though closer to its end than to present day. And it should remain a rare occasion, otherwise people would just stop buying games on GOG and buy them on Steam instead. CD Projekt is a publicly traded company, so their financials are available for everyone to see. Last I checked, GOG (and CDP) were quite healthy financially, so I'd dismiss the rumors.

Also, it's not GOG that deletes your posts, but the community. Too many "Report as spam" will delete a post, and it also used to ban the user, but the GameRager incident meant that was changed.

But as bait attempts go, I don't recall seeing anything better than a 2/10 from you in the recent weeks. Maybe try a bit harder and your posts will stay around, who knows.

No it's not.
"We'll be doing our best to expand GOG Connect in the future! You'll need to import new games when they're added, so stay tuned and check back regularly to see if anything new has been added."

From the website page in FAQs question "9. Will you include more titles in the future?"

Yes it is. Limited in the sense of games and time when games can be claimed. First of all, it is a marketing campaign to get more people to GOG (ideally from Steam). It is not a "good Samaritan" thingy.

Let me rephrase.
GOG connect is a permanent GOG feature that offers limited time promotions for specific games. There won't always be a promotion going on, and the time for each promotion may vary.

Wouldn't checking just once a week be enough?

GOG Connect probably disappeared because many publishers would rather force you to buy a drm free game then get a free version.

In other words everything good GOG tries to do, publishers shoot them down.

Every single day one of these threads. Who needs the sodding FAQ?

^This

Also I imagine that the decision if to continue with Connect would be based on how many new users it managed to acquire for GOG and how many of them became paying customers.

Given that the previous two batches were only available for 5 days each, once a week would actually not be enough, no.

GOG Connect never disappeared. It is still there precisely how GOG intended it to be there, and it currently has no games on offer, so it is not prominently displayed anywhere at the moment - again, as GOG intended it to be from day 1.

People don't actually read or even try to comprehend things I swear. They see something free, think the world is owed to them and that from now on there will be a garden-hose of free games blasted at them 24/7 until the end of time, but not just that - they think that they're actually owed it too, like GOG and publishers MUST do it or they're dishonest or evil or something.

Every day there is a new "What happened to GOG Connect?????" thread in the forums, evidence that nobody ever read the actual GOG Connect FAQ or tried to comprehend it. They read one sentence and concluded "Awesome, I can connect my GOG account to my Steam account and get a garden hose of unlimited free games daily from now on, and GOG now owes it to me."

The reality is and always was - that GOG Connect is simply a way for publishers that decide they would like to offer their customers DRM-free versions of their games on GOG.com who bought the games on Steam the opportunity but NOT THE OBLIGATION to have an easy way to verify the proof of purchase and make it easy for those customers to redeem their games on GOG.com. That is basically all it is - a vehicle for providing a useful easy to use service IF and WHEN the publisher of a game decides that they want to offer this service to pre-existing Steam customers.

It is not a promise by publishers nor by GOG that games will always be available or that there will ever be any guarantee that any games will be available. It is a mechanism to provide the service if and when the publisher themselves choose to make a non-obligatory kind gesture to their pre-existing customers.

Anyone who thinks it was ever anything else, was sorely misinformed. Probably from not reading the entire announcment, FAQ, and applying common sense on top of that.

Ok, back to more important things now. It'll surely be at least 12 hours until someone else that doesn't read posts the same question again. :)

Perfect analogy courtesy of Louis CK: <span class="bold">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFsOUbZ0Lr0</span>

That would be my guess. It may be dead forever, it may return tomorrow, I don't know.

To be fair this happens rarely and is often countered immediately in an obvious way. One can just wait and then ask one or two innocent little questions like "Did GOG really state that..." or "Why do you think that..." and the whole accusation implodes quickly.