Not in my view.

As it is, they've gotten all they could have in the few days the promotion has ran, and have zero incentive to come back until the next batch of games - and since hell knows when that will be, they're most likely going to forget about GOG for a while.

Keeping it going at a slow pace would have given them incentive to come back every few days to check what's new - possibly increasing their participation in the forum community and convincing them to make purchases from the store.

More news to report about new items in the promotion would also have produced substantially more exposure for the program and GOG itself on various forums and social media, further increasing the free advertising they would get, drawing in more users and thus more potential buyers.

Connect was only their way of making our pants tighter then unleashing the sale on us.

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You're making the assumption that it isn't doing exactly what they intended it to do exactly they intended it to.
This is quite clearly the most intelligent and useful post in the entire thread so far. :)

Agreed. Not a single game linked thus far.

I agree with thefifthhorseman.229 and, actually, it would be more of an educated guess based on GOG's past actions. Their intent seemed very clear with the CD key thing, etc, but what they said and what happened were very different things.

Without info, there's no reason for anyone to believe it hasn't been abandoned and that would seem to be a bad thing if GOG's really trying to get Steam customers to check them out. I've seen a lot of hate for GOG from Steam customers who've never even tried GOG. If this had gotten me to try GOG for the first time, I can say with absolute certainty that I'd have given up in the absence of *any* info.

Any Steam customers who came here because of this promo have anything to add? Do you agree (if you do, you're probably not here to say so, lol)? :)

Please quote and highlight anything GOG has stated about GOG Connect which is false or no longer true, or something they have stated and categorically reverted. Not assumptions, but hard facts of them saying one thing and doing something else. I see no such thing.

All I see is wild assumptions people have made which are incorrect.

Sure there are, the GOG news article that was linked on the front page, sent out in the newsletter, RSS feed, Facebook, etc. points to the GOG Connect page at https://www.gog.com/connect which has an FAQ that is located at https://www.gog.com/connect#faq

The majority of the questions and concerns that I have seen people ask/express in the forums are answered in that FAQ. Not every question is, nor is it necessarily answered with the highest amount of detail, but most things are answered there. Those are the hard facts that are known about GOG Connect so far, as well as any statements GOG employees have made in the forums to date. How is a published FAQ not hard facts?

I haven't seen any statement that GOG has made about GOG connect shown to be false to date, so when I see people making assumptions and/or claims that they are saying one thing and doing another thing when I do not see that being the case, I'm going to express my disagreement with that. If there is a claim they've made about GOG Connect that is now known to be false, I haven't seen it but I'd certainly like to be illuminated on the subject if I have missed something.

Every time GOG unveils a new service, new feature, new <insert just about anything here>, there are people that come out of the woodwork to tear it apart and tear them apart. If they do something good for the community, someone trashes it and shits on it, states how it "isn't good enough" or any other number of things to try to make GOG out to be the big evil company, or that they're "trying to be like Steam" or some other negative nonsense. Sure, everyone has their opinion and are free to express it, and I am within the set of "everyone" so I'm expressing mine as well.

I've never said anywhere that GOG is flawless, nor that problems with Connect that people might have could be caused by bugs on GOG's side. It's highly plausible that they could have flaws on their side in a new service like this. We do however know that Steam has limits on API requests per day and that if they are reached that people will experience problems. That is a fact, however that does not translate into every problem anyone has using it at all is due to Steam limits either. I've never claimed anywhere that GOG has no fault in the problems happening, but I have offered people that are wondering why they have problems plausible answers based on what is known.

Since you've mentioned it, I can admit that I've gotten crusty a few times about this topic and bitched about it a bit, and I can go a step further and even agree that that's not really the healthiest way of handling things either. I generally keep my cool fairly well here I think, but I am human too and when you see the same things repeated over and over and over again it can sometimes get tiring so I let off a little steam.

It depends on the nature of the specific dialogue. A lot has been discussed on the topic of GOG connect, some of it is speculation and some of it is factual. If people have differing speculative opinions on something that the facts aren't known about then they can hardly be 100% wrong. On the other hand if someone has an opinion on something where information has been provided and their opinion seems unreasonable in light of that information then I believe it's within reason to point that out.

Sure, parts of the conversation on all sides haven't been the most civil and I've contributed a bit to that as well, but the entire conversation between everyone doesn't have to go that way and I believe I'm being rather civil at the moment.

A couple of things that got me a little fired up was the volume of new posts being posted on the exact same topic over and over again seemingly multiple times per day all rehashing the same things, some of which were based upon people not reading the FAQ etc. and making bad assumptions about things. Another thing is people seeming to expect that the service was designed to send a constant stream of games from Steam to GOG ongoing which doesn't make a lot of sense as GOG has never claimed that. They never said it wouldn't either, but it's unreasonable IMHO to think that it will unless they've stated that is the plan somewhere. I don't have any inside information on this, but it is my opinion that it is unreasonable for people to think there will be games available through connect all of the time purely based on contemplating the logical ways in which the games do actually become available. It doesn't make it a fact or prove anything, but rather to try to explain how things likely work and why with a rational explanation.

The third thing that kind of set me off, and it's one that always pushes my buttons is when people demonstrate entitlement mentality. I'm not calling any specific individual(s) out on that, but rather that the phenomenon within the gaming community out there at large is overly common and I find it a harmful way for people to think in general. People often no sooner find out they can get something for free than a minute later they complain about it not being free enough, not being the free thing that they wanted, or some other detail is off about it and they lash out like something was stolen or taken away from them or something. That just really really bothers me personally, and I saw a lot of it the other day throughout the forums on a few different topics so I burned off a little steam. A better thing to do would have been to play some games or take a forum vacation for a few days I suppose but hindsight is always 20/20 as they say.

Anyhow, I hope that people who had problems with Connect end up with it being sorted out and hopefully they can claim some games if they were in the queue. Hopefully GOG has or will iron out any problems on their end with the service also and make it more robust for the next time around. It's my opinion (to be clear) that GOG Connect will periodically make games available to us for a limited time occasionally when they are able to make a deal with a given publisher, and that the rest of the time there will be nothing available. I base that on statements made in the FAQ and some things I consider to be common sense even if they aren't facts itemized in a press release. I could totally be wrong about that since it is speculative, and perhaps in a month or so there will be dozens of games offered through Connect every day going forward from multiple publishers with no idle time. If that happens, I'll not only be happy to have expressed an opinion that turned out to be wrong, I'll gladly admit with shock and surprise "wow, I never could have seen that coming, you guys were 200% right" (to whoever out there thought/assumed that there would be a constant supply of games coming through Connect and the lack of them means it is discontinued).

In closing, sometimes we all can take things too seriously and need to chill, myself included. No hard feelings to anyone, and none taken in either.

I'm really sorry if this question has already been answered in this thread. My Steam account is typically set to private. However, when GOG Connect came out, I temporarily set my Privacy Settings & Profile Status to 'public'. GOG then listed my compatible games and I transferred them to my GOG account. I then set everything back to 'private'.

Since then, I haven't seen any new games show up on GOG Connect, even when I hit 'Refresh'.

My question: do I have to set my Steam settings back to 'public' every time I check GOG Connect for new games, or was it sufficient for future updates to just do that once at the beginning of the process?

The original issue (mentioned multiple times) still exists. It is close to impossible to actually connect. It just says "YOU ARE QUEUED FOR GOG CONNECT. Your accounts will be connected as soon as possible. Please check back later.". While the API limitation part is perfectly understandable, there should be a better way of communicating this, and showing progress. I've been in a queue for more than a month, many games were added and removed from Connect since then without people being able to even see them. At least a progress bar showing "connecting in 268 days" or something like that would be cool.

I'd be best to set your settings back to "public" every time you check.
Keep in mind though that there are no eligible games currently. I'd expect GOG to update the OP of this thread, or make a new announcement when a new batch becomes available.

There has been absolutely no reason to connect accounts or post in this thread for over a month now, yet we keep bumping it constantly. It's like people think Pokemon are hiding in here or something.....

WAIT THERES POKEMON HERE IMA GET MY PHONE!!!! jk :P