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Posted May 26, 2014
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Licurg: I meant... No one doing any Ninja giveaways ?
I think your good intentions won't hold that long. No one's reading the first post anyway. And... who would enforce your rules? As soon as people start dropping ninjas, others will start complaining again. Hoarder here, bot there, rep is dead because I don't have it... Humanity isn't ready for a thread full of free stuff.

I thought about opening a new thread as well. A thread where I can drop codes randomly. Something like ceemdee's "Free GOGs for pointless reasons". That was an awesome thread! But I think it simply doesn't work anymore, because GOG has become too big to be the little community from three or more years ago. Make a thread where you can get free games pretty often -> people go nuts. Sad but true.
Posted May 26, 2014
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Licurg: I meant... No one doing any Ninja giveaways ?
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real.geizterfahr: I think your good intentions won't hold that long. No one's reading the first post anyway. And... who would enforce your rules? As soon as people start dropping ninjas, others will start complaining again. Hoarder here, bot there, rep is dead because I don't have it... Humanity isn't ready for a thread full of free stuff.

I thought about opening a new thread as well. A thread where I can drop codes randomly. Something like ceemdee's "Free GOGs for pointless reasons". That was an awesome thread! But I think it simply doesn't work anymore, because GOG has become too big to be the little community from three or more years ago. Make a thread where you can get free games pretty often -> people go nuts. Sad but true.
Well, I'm pretty sure it can work. I mean - if a bot gets a game - that's the problem of the guy who put up the game. If he's fine with it, why bother ?
Posted May 26, 2014
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Licurg: Well, I'm pretty sure it can work. I mean - if a bot gets a game - that's the problem of the guy who put up the game. If he's fine with it, why bother ?
Bots aren't the problem (maybe there are bots... I don't know). The problem is what happens in the thread (rather: what happened in the ninja thread).

- Lots of new members start with negative rep for simply saying "Thank you, I got the game" and the following "Why do I have negative rep?"
- Others lurk the thread and accuse each other of grabbing all the codes.
- Others again start to blame bots.
- The atmosphere in the thread gets toxic and starts to expand into other threads:
- "You got X games for free in the ninja thread, why don't you start playing them?"
- "Even user xyz got downrepped for dropping codes"
- "I stopped posting there because..."
- *click*

Sorry, I don't believe in ninjas anymore ;)
Posted May 26, 2014
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Licurg: Well, I'm pretty sure it can work. I mean - if a bot gets a game - that's the problem of the guy who put up the game. If he's fine with it, why bother ?
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real.geizterfahr: Bots aren't the problem (maybe there are bots... I don't know). The problem is what happens in the thread (rather: what happened in the ninja thread).

- Lots of new members start with negative rep for simply saying "Thank you, I got the game" and the following "Why do I have negative rep?"
- Others lurk the thread and accuse each other of grabbing all the codes.
- Others again start to blame bots.
- The atmosphere in the thread gets toxic and starts to expand into other threads:
- "You got X games for free in the ninja thread, why don't you start playing them?"
- "Even user xyz got downrepped for dropping codes"
- "I stopped posting there because..."
- *click*

Sorry, I don't believe in ninjas anymore ;)
Graaaaaa :(
Posted May 26, 2014
This just in:

"All Ninjas who were lurking in the shadows of the GOG.com forum have been kidnapped by aliens."

So it's pointless to post any new ninja threads. :D
Posted May 26, 2014
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Impaler26: This just in:

"All Ninjas who were lurking in the shadows of the GOG.com forum have been kidnapped by aliens."

So it's pointless to post any new ninja threads. :D
Pirates were always better anyway.
Posted May 26, 2014
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Licurg: Well, I'm pretty sure it can work. I mean - if a bot gets a game - that's the problem of the guy who put up the game. If he's fine with it, why bother ?
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real.geizterfahr: Bots aren't the problem (maybe there are bots... I don't know). The problem is what happens in the thread (rather: what happened in the ninja thread).

- Lots of new members start with negative rep for simply saying "Thank you, I got the game" and the following "Why do I have negative rep?"
- Others lurk the thread and accuse each other of grabbing all the codes.
- Others again start to blame bots.
- The atmosphere in the thread gets toxic and starts to expand into other threads:
- "You got X games for free in the ninja thread, why don't you start playing them?"
- "Even user xyz got downrepped for dropping codes"
- "I stopped posting there because..."
- *click*

Sorry, I don't believe in ninjas anymore ;)
This.

Made a GA with a Kalypso bundle, reached 200, decided to do another Kalypso bundle GA and throw some extra leftovers to celebrate, got downrepped to 188 in no time...So my GA are now outside the big threads.
Posted May 26, 2014
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real.geizterfahr: I thought about opening a new thread as well. A thread where I can drop codes randomly. Something like ceemdee's "Free GOGs for pointless reasons". That was an awesome thread! But I think it simply doesn't work anymore, because GOG has become too big to be the little community from three or more years ago. Make a thread where you can get free games pretty often -> people go nuts. Sad but true.
There is wisdom in your words, but I just wanted to thank you for pointing out to that old giveaway thread.
It really is super-awesome and I hope one day we'll see another similar one. :)
Posted May 26, 2014
SAUSAGE!
Posted May 26, 2014
Chorizo.
Posted May 26, 2014
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pimpmonkey2382: Chorizo.
bless you
Posted May 27, 2014
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pimpmonkey2382: Chorizo.
mmmmmmmmmhhhhh, chorizo... yum yum.
Posted May 27, 2014
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pimpmonkey2382: Chorizo.
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real.geizterfahr: mmmmmmmmmhhhhh, chorizo... yum yum.
Sounds good to me too. lol
Posted May 28, 2014
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pimpmonkey2382: Chorizo.
Salchichón.
Posted May 28, 2014
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pimpmonkey2382: Chorizo.
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javihyuga: Salchichón.
Bump, come up.
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