rtcvb32: You get a gift, once you open the gift to see what it is, that doesn't mean you have every right to shove it back at the gifter like a whiny kid and say '
That's not what i want!' and demand a refund or they buy you a different gift.
I don't really see how this comparison applies, since with a gift you're being given something for free and in this case we're talking about a product that you pay for.
rtcvb32: At businesses that also grab odds and ends and stuff them in a
mystery bag for $10, you don't buy it and then hand it back because it didn't have the fuzzy handcuffs you hoped it would be...
This comparison makes much more sense, but the key difference here is that the pinata games are digital items. With physical goods you have to worry about things like the packaging, new vs used, item condition, etc. Not to mention any issues with proving what the contents of the purchased item were. With digital items there's none of that. There's no value to be lost if someone buys a game and then refunds it, whether that game was bought deliberately or as part of something like the pinata. If someone buys a pinata, gets a game they don't want, and then returns it, then it's just like if they had never bought it to begin with. I don't see the harm in that, and to be honest I would be kind of leery of it if GOG started making exemptions to their User Agreement for things like this.