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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.
Right... And now bring us some classics.
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Fesin: History shows us that it's better not to save the payment info. But well, as long as it's optional. Most other places make it mandatory for some inane reason.
And those that don't make it mandatory, makes it default.
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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.
Sounds like I should get some sleep in while I still can. :)
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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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Yezemin: Sounds like I should get some sleep in while I still can. :)
Don't worry, you'll be fine without sleep.
Why the hell would I want to store my credit card data???
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de_Monteynard: I seem to distinctly remember a bluetext saying that GOG will never implement such as system, as it would be too much of a security risk. So while I applaud the use of multiple security precautions, I wonder what really changed the management's mind.

At the same time, the final paragraph is a massive teaser for an insomnia/timeline sale, so they must really want us to spend as much and as quickly as possible.
Reason is very simple - they've add https forced everywhere and optional 2-steps login. Another reason is big changes in card/security industry, since Visa/MasterCard /or banks/ are losing A LOT of money due to carding, card security is going to raise week by week - yeah, not even month by month.


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Fesin: History shows us that it's better not to save the payment info. But well, as long as it's optional. Most other places make it mandatory for some inane reason.
History of Sony and them being retarded, but in terms of security it was ages ago. Still, i'd prefer to just have diffrent level of security like 4 last digs + cvv + exp. date, but this is also nice. Honestly, there are much worse thing that can happend if people know your credit card number that being scared of being carder victim in GoG store is last thing you should be worried about - there were stories of successful hijacking of say person twitter (worth several thousands dollars) by a bit of Social Engineering + caling right companies (2 digs from paypal, then based on it 4 last digs on amazon, then 4 starting digs from paypal, and this allow you to reset account info...). And so on.
Not sure if I'd use this, but it's nice to be able to if I so choose. :)
I don't care if a website needs 120 passwords and a bio-metric scan. My credit card details are NEVER saved on any website.

So no thanks.
Hm...I think I'll stick to old method for now ...I'm a bit old-fashioned and I like to distinguish paying while purchasing.

On a side note: can saved CC be used solely for adding games to your account or does it also allow you make gifts and send them to custom email adress?
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PaterAlf: Why the hell would I want to store my credit card data???
Yolo?
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enurbenur: "We hope the feature turns out to be particularly useful soon, when you may just feel compelled to click really, really fast."

Hmm, could this be hinting at insomnia or something similar?
... This insomnia is where they try to sell me games I own already while still refusing to sell me Skyrim & Saints Row 4? :D
Post edited March 17, 2016 by anothername
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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.
Technically the card number is not saved, it's similar to the "payment agreement" (not sure 100% how it is called) you can do with Paypal.

Basically the first time you do it it tells your bank "I authorized Gog to make purchases using my credit card" and the bank send to Gog a unique token representing this transaction. After that the next time you make a purchase on Gog, instead of sending your credit card information for validation, Gog only send this token to the bank.

In the worse case scenario if Gog is compromised, the only thing hackers can obtain is this token; this token can only be used for purchase on Gog and normally only Gog can use it (it only works for a specific IP address, you need Gog's certificates, etc...)

In the end it's a lot safer than "recording" you Credit card number like it is done on Amazon or other similar shops. Some peoples say it's safer than entering your credit card number every time as you number is only type and transmitted once.
Post edited March 17, 2016 by Gersen
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Yezemin: Sounds like I should get some sleep in while I still can. :)
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omega64: Don't worry, you'll be fine without sleep.
Worry not my brothers, when sleep flees and funds deplete, our mighty savior will save us with an undying flame from within.

All praise to Keane!
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de_Monteynard: I seem to distinctly remember a bluetext saying that GOG will never implement such as system, as it would be too much of a security risk.
Believe me - it's safe as f***. :)
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omega64: Don't worry, you'll be fine without sleep.
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Celton88: Worry not my brothers, when sleep flees and funds deplete, our mighty savior will save us with an undying flame from within.

All praise to Keane!
Hail to the Keane!!