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Posted March 17, 2016
You can now store your card for later use.

When making any purchase with a credit or debit card, you can now select the option to save your card for later use.



If your payment is successful, that card will be remembered for later use. You'll be able to select it during your next checkout without retyping the info every time. Simple, straightforward, and probably very familiar.


We're taking advantage of tried and tested industry-standard solutions used across the world today. Among other things, this means your entered payment data isn't actually kept anywhere on GOG.com. Once your bank approves the purchase, your entered card number is replaced with a unique, encrypted token that can be used only by us to process your future payments, and which cannot be reverse engineered to resolve your card number and data. From time to time, we'll also ask you to verify your information based on a number of security factors, like if you haven't used that card in a long time.

While it's not required, we also strongly recommend enabling Two-Step Login before saving your payment details.

Keep in mind that you can easily remove your saved payment method through the My Account / Orders section. We'll also automatically invalidate all payment tokens for any account that hasn't been used in a long time.


We hope the feature turns out to be particularly useful soon, when you may just feel compelled to click really, really fast.
Posted March 17, 2016
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GOG.com: We'll also automatically invalidate all payment tokens for any account that hasn't been used in a long time.
I like to know the time you´ll take to do that. I´m not logging very much lately.
Posted March 17, 2016
Hey gog, how about you store your card token on my account so I can pick something up. Come to think of it, when are you going to do another price screwup giveaway like the Linux launch that made headlines? :-P
Posted March 17, 2016
Hey Licurg, want me to use this? After all, it is your card I'm using.
Posted March 18, 2016
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GOG.com: You can now store your card for later use.
Did anyone actually want this? Last time I remember you guys having a user survey, we all overwhelmingly DID NOT want this.

I'm not pissed off about this since it's default off, so accidentally saving card details should be extremely rare, but I am somewhat puzzled.
Posted March 18, 2016
I know that having to enter payment details lowers the number of impulse purchases but does GOG really want to be responsible for the security of payment details of thousands of users?
Posted March 18, 2016
I didn't except this, I kinda thought not storing that information was more secure and I usually don't save my credit card info on sites. Eh, as long as it's optional, I guess more convenience isn't a bad thing. Not being able to store credit card info here was actually the main reason I got a PayPal account. :P
Posted March 18, 2016
Now for a wallet...

It'd be nice to drop $100 at a time and, as a result, always know that my bank is adding $2 even to the transaction without needing to do the 2% foreign transaction fee math every time.
Posted March 18, 2016
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haydenaurion: Uh thanks but no thanks, I prefer not to make it easier for hackers to steal my cash which is why I never save card info anywhere.
Ditto
Posted March 18, 2016
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GOG.com: We hope the feature turns out to be particularly useful soon, when you may just feel compelled to click really, really fast.
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hedwards: The way you guys have sold out is absolutely disgusting. Considering all the ecommerce sites that lose credit details to crackers despite allegedly following industry standards, this is just disgusting.

I for one am sick of being treated like an ATM by you jokers.

Mr. Gog, you've changed, and not in a good way. You used to be cool, now you're just as bad as the rest of them.
I don't get why you're getting so worked up. the reason they weren't doing this before was as much because it was something else to be doing as it was keeping users' security in mind. it was always convenient that not offering a card saving option was also good for security.

now, granted, they could have done it, because people did do it, and they might have been saving numbers and they made the choice not to offer that convenience for benefit of not doling out that security risk. it's down to debate whether the reasoning was more influenced by altruism or were more pragmatic.

people are also missing something here. gog has rolled this out now not just because they want to destroy everyone's security in the big-corporate data-mining horseshit mode, but along with their processor, whoever it is, are some implications for easy support options for digital wallet payment providers when that starts to develop and gog want to be on board with that and, as a technology company, want to be near the edge of it.
Post edited March 18, 2016 by johnnygoging
Posted March 18, 2016
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Vythonaut: Personally, I'm generally satisfied with the direction the things are going regarding GOG: website/ account security has gotten to another level recently (which is the most important for me given the recent problems), a lot of good games are getting released plus the occasional surprise (although I would love more classic games too), support (at least in my case) proved helpful, EDIT, a new feature called InDev that maybe don't appeal to me however lots of folks seem to like it plus it serves as a nice indication that a specific game will be released here "when it is ready".

Of course there are many things that could get improved plus some other "grey" things that it's better not to mention (regional pricing for example or the fact that some features should have been worked out before they started Galaxy) but generally I feel GOG is on the right track right now. Let's see what they can achieve in one year from now!
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Gilozard: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm not 100% happy about what GOG does, but they're a business not my personal fiefdom. They try hard and generally respect customers. I don't like or use Galaxy, but obviously a lot of people do. So long as it's optional I'll keep shopping here.

I just don't get emotional about businesses. I'm happy to exchange my money for products that meet my needs. I'm equally happy to not do so. Life is too short to get fussed about this.
They used to try hard, now they're phoning it home at best. I can't help but wonder if that has anything to do with why TET is no longer here. The people running the place have done a pretty good job of pissing people off and general obliviousness when things like region pricing and such are being announced.

I've significantly cut down on my purchases here in large part because of the disrespectful way that the ownership has been handling the changes.
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hedwards: The way you guys have sold out is absolutely disgusting. Considering all the ecommerce sites that lose credit details to crackers despite allegedly following industry standards, this is just disgusting.

I for one am sick of being treated like an ATM by you jokers.

Mr. Gog, you've changed, and not in a good way. You used to be cool, now you're just as bad as the rest of them.
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johnnygoging: I don't get why you're getting so worked up. the reason they weren't doing this before was as much because it was something else to be doing as it was keeping users' security in mind. it was always convenient that not offering a card saving option was also good for security.

now, granted, they could have done it, because people did do it, and they might have been saving numbers and they made the choice not to offer that convenience for benefit of not doling out that security risk. it's down to debate whether the reasoning was more influenced by altruism or were more pragmatic.

people are also missing something here. gog has rolled this out now not just because they want to destroy everyone's security in the big-corporate data-mining horseshit mode, but along with their processor, whoever it is, are some implications for easy support options for digital wallet payment providers when that starts to develop and gog want to be on board with that and, as a technology company, want to be near the edge of it.
No, whenever it's come up they said they weren't doing it because of the security problems related to it. They've done an about face and have the gall to make it sound like this isn't a security problem.
Post edited March 18, 2016 by hedwards
Posted March 18, 2016
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GOG.com: We hope the feature turns out to be particularly useful soon, when you may just feel compelled to click really, really fast.
PLEASE NO Insomnia sale... I HATE THEM... :-(
Posted March 18, 2016
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Gilozard: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm not 100% happy about what GOG does, but they're a business not my personal fiefdom. They try hard and generally respect customers. I don't like or use Galaxy, but obviously a lot of people do. So long as it's optional I'll keep shopping here.

I just don't get emotional about businesses. I'm happy to exchange my money for products that meet my needs. I'm equally happy to not do so. Life is too short to get fussed about this.
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hedwards: They used to try hard, now they're phoning it home at best. I can't help but wonder if that has anything to do with why TET is no longer here. The people running the place have done a pretty good job of pissing people off and general obliviousness when things like region pricing and such are being announced.

I've significantly cut down on my purchases here in large part because of the disrespectful way that the ownership has been handling the changes.
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johnnygoging: I don't get why you're getting so worked up. the reason they weren't doing this before was as much because it was something else to be doing as it was keeping users' security in mind. it was always convenient that not offering a card saving option was also good for security.

now, granted, they could have done it, because people did do it, and they might have been saving numbers and they made the choice not to offer that convenience for benefit of not doling out that security risk. it's down to debate whether the reasoning was more influenced by altruism or were more pragmatic.

people are also missing something here. gog has rolled this out now not just because they want to destroy everyone's security in the big-corporate data-mining horseshit mode, but along with their processor, whoever it is, are some implications for easy support options for digital wallet payment providers when that starts to develop and gog want to be on board with that and, as a technology company, want to be near the edge of it.
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hedwards: No, whenever it's come up they said they weren't doing it because of the security problems related to it. They've done an about face and have the gall to make it sound like this isn't a security problem.
we're not there at the meetings, at the talks. when they hash shit out and size things up and so on. Marcin Iwinski or whoever it was that came up with the policy or messaging of no-card-save didn't do it with the knowledge that they were lying and had every intent to go 180 later. now, these are smart guys, so I'm betting that they knew that, later on, probably they might be going back on it, you know, if things got that far. maybe back then the shape it took if and when it rolled out with regards to communication was a little different. but, they're here now, not way back then, and they do things (and what I mean by that is things are going on, you only have so much energy and resources, you focus on the things that are important). it's not a huge deal that they didn't come out and say "hey guys can we please have a secure payment saving option, especially because of the whole gog wallet thing we want to do cause you need that stuff for stuff with UI and in-game purchasing and stuff, and also because of apple pay/digital wallet stuff emerging and we really want to be ok for that, but we're not really talking about that yet?"

another thing is that, I've noticed that the gog veteran types can be unreasonable and too harsh sometimes. and if you do that, you have to understand that more silence will follow.
Post edited March 18, 2016 by johnnygoging
Posted March 18, 2016
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Vythonaut: Because - believe me - it's politically incorrect! :P
Pssh. Didn't ya hear? Not being PC is back in vogue! ;)
Posted March 18, 2016
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BKGaming: And the risk really isn't any greater... on one had your risk having your card number stolen that can be used anywhere and on the other hand you risk having a token stolen that can be used on GOG only, while card number is still perfectly safe. I know which of the two I would prefer to happen if it ever did happen.
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Martek: I consider it a highe risk - I still have to enter a card number just like before (because I will not "store" it - regardless if it's a unique token or what-have-you) - only now there is a mechanism that didn't exist before that could get hacked.

But as I've mentioned a few times - a virtual card number will be my protection (assuming it works here - we'll find out probably not too long). Virtual numbers can be locked to specific dollar amounts, expiration dates, and vendors. So I could set one up for GOG that expires in a month and is good for $50. If that got "hacked" the damage is minimal. I use them on Amazon, etc. Anyplace that allows "storing" payment info. It's good protection.
If virtual card numbers does not work you can use Paypal.

Under normal condition your paypal account should be empty so there is nothing to steal.
Only when you want to buy something you top up paypal and buy things with it.

That way, it would work similar to what you describe as the virtual card number.
Posted March 18, 2016
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GOG.com: We hope the feature turns out to be particularly useful soon, when you may just feel compelled to click really, really fast.
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cecil: PLEASE NO Insomnia sale... I HATE THEM... :-(
Ditto
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