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Posted January 02, 2016
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GOG turned me into a newt.
Posted January 02, 2016
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Wishbone: Given that the keys on those shady sites you frequent would have to be bought on GOG in the first place, in order to be resold elsewhere, would you mind explaining how you think the key sellers make money by selling the keys for less than they bought them for?
It always occurred to me that there could be a business model here. If the key sites themselves or some of the people posting them there were buying during the sales, and selling while they're off sale price, you could essentially make your margin there from the people too impatient to wait for sales.

Clearly this is not what is happening.
Posted January 02, 2016
Side note: when I saw the title of this thread I thought it was referring to another removal from the catalog. (aside from the Duke Nukem series)

I am relieved :p
Posted January 02, 2016
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l0rdtr3k: GOG turned me into a newt.
A newt?
Posted January 02, 2016
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BillyMaysFan59: Side note: when I saw the title of this thread I thought it was referring to another removal from the catalog. (aside from the Duke Nukem series)

I am relieved :p
As did I, and was curious as to which game it was lol Instead I got to read a comedy thread. Thanks to all the actors participating, this was a great performance :)
Posted January 02, 2016
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l0rdtr3k: GOG turned me into a newt.
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Randalator: A newt?
I got better...
Posted January 02, 2016
Oh hey, exiled_user is back!

Why didn't somebody wake me!?

I have a strange feeling that part of the reasons the OP lost those games is because he bought them from exiled_user. :P
Post edited January 02, 2016 by tinyE
Posted January 02, 2016
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CarrionCrow: You'll keep on buying stolen shit, GOG will discover it and pull the stolen items, and every time you show up here complaining, people will continue to mock you for apparently having the intelligence and common sense of a freshly microwaved hamster.
Oh my... a DOTT reference used as an insult? Have a +1.
Posted January 02, 2016
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Wishbone: Given that the keys on those shady sites you frequent would have to be bought on GOG in the first place, in order to be resold elsewhere, would you mind explaining how you think the key sellers make money by selling the keys for less than they bought them for?
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wpegg: It always occurred to me that there could be a business model here. If the key sites themselves or some of the people posting them there were buying during the sales, and selling while they're off sale price, you could essentially make your margin there from the people too impatient to wait for sales.

Clearly this is not what is happening.
Actually, it is. Not so muh for gOg, maybe, but some of the codes you buy on the grey market does not get revoked because they have been bought on sale and then resold. It is more of a problem for bundle sellers, though. But I think there is also a limit on how many gift codes you can buy here, just to limit this abuse.
Posted January 02, 2016
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amok: But I think there is also a limit on how many gift codes you can buy here, just to limit this abuse.
I wouldn't consider this behaviour abuse. It's simply called "arbitrage", and is to be expected in any free market as a method of price smoothing. I'd completely support this behaviour, and I don't see how it harms the vendors, who have achieved exactly what they wanted, of selling the games at the price they decided to offer them at.
Posted January 02, 2016
I seriously wish people who buy GOG codes from some shady sites would just get banned. Or at least get quaranitned in some separate "idiot" forum.
Posted January 02, 2016
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exiled_user: You got lucky. My whole account was deleted just like that. I recommend not purchasing a single game here.
You never did purchase a single game here.
Posted January 02, 2016
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Breja: I seriously wish people who buy GOG codes from some shady sites would just get banned. Or at least get quaranitned in some separate "idiot" forum.
Along with all these annoying politically-correct retards and useless scammers.

Like this everyone gets what they want : the PC crowd their sheeple-spaces, the scammers someone to scam who doesn't seem to mind, and those too dumb to learn what they deserve.

And everyone else no longer has to be bothered by them ;)
Posted January 02, 2016
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snowkatt: dont be a tunahead
the microwaved hamster is smarter and less liable to do the same thing over and over and over again and they cry foul about it
snowkatt!
Haven't seen you around for awhile, good to have you back :)
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BillyMaysFan59: Side note: when I saw the title of this thread I thought it was referring to another removal from the catalog. (aside from the Duke Nukem series)

I am relieved :p
^This

I thought GoG had removed something without warning (and it wouldn't be the first time) but instead got this hilarious thread.

I don't know how anyone can defend buying second hand keys, knowing full well that even at best they aren't strictly legal (and GoG would be within their rights according to their Policies to withdraw even those bought legitimately) and that 50% of them are bought with stolen cards.
And that you're probably at risk of having your details stolen to buy the next batch once you buy one...
Post edited January 02, 2016 by adaliabooks
Posted January 02, 2016
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exiled_user: I recommend not purchasing a single game here.
Too late! I've already bought 1177 GOG games (none pulled or vanished, except for Fallout which kept disappearing and reappearing at some point but that's like ancient history man!), so I am already a lost soul.

I've done some precautions though, I've already downloaded all my GOG games to an external HDD.
Post edited January 02, 2016 by timppu
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