Hi, I'm BenKii. And this is The Community Giveaway. A tradition that began with IAmSinistar back in 2015 and followed by moonshineshadow, zeogold, finkleroy, Lone_Scout, and now me, BenKii, the 6th host of the best longest running giveaway on the Gog forums. I want to give a huge thanks to all the previous hosts and to all the donators to this giveaway. You all make this community a better place. :)

Previous editions can be found here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/a_community_giveaway
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway_gog_edition
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway_gog_edition_redux
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gogmmunity_monthly_giveaway

Please set your chat settings to public so that you can send any donations to me or receive any donations from the Community Giveaway. Only GOG keys will be accepted in this thread.

If you want to discuss the rules or other circumstances related to this thread, please do it in the following thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_community_giveaway_tradition_discussion_and_poll

In an effort to not clutter the thread, I won't be saying "you're welcome" every time I'm thanked. So instead, I'll say it now to every fellow Goglodyte that has thanked me in the past, today, and into the future. You're welcome! :)

So, how does this thing work?
The short version:
*This giveaway is open to active members of the GOG community, you can ask for a single key from the list in the 2nd post.
* Keys are on a first come, first served basis. The first eligible member to ask for a game from the list will get the key. Ineligible members will be told to be more active in the forum before participating in the giveaway.
* You can only get one gift per month. The new month will begin on the 1st of the month after I make a post stating we are in the new month. Please check the 4th post in this thread titled "Important Announcements" to see when the new month has started.

The complete rules are listed below. Please read them to get the full idea.

*****RULES*****
PLEASE READ THESE BEFORE ASKING FOR ANYTHING.

#1. If you donate a key to this giveaway, you're leaving who gets it fully up to my discretion and the rules of this giveaway. If you'd like to pick and choose who gets what yourself, you'll have to open up a giveaway of your own.

#2. Only reputable members are accepted. By "reputable", I mean having an active and positive presence in the community. Who I deem reputable is at my discretion. As a general guideline, you must have a non-recent registration and have been actively participating in the community recently and for at least a month or so. Activity that consists mostly of giveaway entries or low effort posts like short posts on some of the forum games doesn't meet the eligibility requirements. I will be the judge on whether you are reputable enough or not. Once you are eligible, you do not stay eligible for life. I will check your recent activity every time you ask for a game to see if you are still eligible.

#3. You will be perma-banned from this giveaway if:
- you are rude
- you are on the Known Scammers list or have otherwise been shown to be an alt account/impersonator/troll
- you knowingly give empty/false/unusable codes
All blacklistings are at my discretion.

#4. Keys are first-come, first-served.

#5. Ask in the thread. No requesting via PM unless you've already requested in the thread and I somehow missed it. You can only request one key per post (even when asking for daggered keys) and requesting several gifts in order of preference is not allowed.

#6. The limit is one game per month. Exceptions are made for games in the daggered keys section, which indicates that they were given away en masse for free sometime in the past. The giveaway goes by calendar month. On the first of every month, I will make a post stating when the new month has begun and then prior giftees can ask for another game. In case you miss the post stating when the new month has begun, you can check the 4th post in this thread titled "Important Announcement" to see if we are in the new month.

#7. Please refrain from editing a post that includes a request. Please carefully consider what you want to request before you request it. If you need to change your request, please wait until at least 10 minutes after you made your original request and post a new message. If you post before 10 minutes have passed, the forum will automatically merge the two posts, which will result in an edited post. All posts that include a request or nomination will automatically be declined if they have been edited for any reason, even if it's because the GOG forum merged two of your posts.

#8. You are only allowed to request keys for yourself. Every granted key must be redeemed by the account that requested it. If you would like to request a key for a friend or family member, they need to meet the eligibility requirements and you need to nominate them for it. If a donor notices that a key they donated was redeemed by a different account than the one that requested it, please let me know about it via PM. We'll all have to have a chat about what happened, and I'll take it on a case by case basis. If there are repeated issues with the same user breaking this rule, it will lead to them being banned from the giveaway.

#9. If a game's DLC is listed alongside the base game, you're free to request just the DLC. The only way it would be required to be a packaged deal is if it's requested by the donor. When this happens, I will make a note of it on the list. This is true of all keys, including the daggered keys that include tons of games. If you'd only like one or two games, that's fine.

#10. Some games are on a multi-game code. If given such a code, only redeem the game(s) you were granted. IF YOU VIOLATE THIS RULE, YOU WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM THE GIVEAWAY.

#11. Nominating other members is allowed and encouraged. The nomination will only be accepted if the nominee falls within the terms of this giveaway. If a key is granted to a nominee, it will count toward their monthly limit. The nominee has a week to claim the game before it is up for grabs for everyone else again. If somebody has been nominated for a game, the game will be removed from the list until either redeemed or a week has passed. If you do not wish to receive nominations, either leave a request in the thread or PM me and you'll be added to the "No Nominations For Me Now" list. If you wish to be removed from this list, let me know in the same manner.
You are allowed to make one nomination per day. If you make a nomination, please wait 24 hours before you nominate again. This is to prevent one person from solely controlling who gets what game. Only active members of the GOG community may nominate.

#12. If you wish to make a donation, please send me a chat message containing the keys. You will receive full credit for your donation and yourname will be added to the list of donors. You may, however, request to be anonymous, and I will honor this request.
I will NEVER ask for keys to be re-sent. If you get a message asking for such, ignore it, as you're likely getting scammed.

#13. Donors are welcome to check if a key has been redeemed by the user who requested it. If a key has not been redeemed, and it has been at least 72 hours since the key was granted, the donor is welcome to contact me. Upon being notified by the donor, I will notify the giftee that they must redeem the key within one week from that moment. If they fail to do so, the key will be returned to the giveaway.

#14. No code-dropping of any sort. Please. I know you mean well, but I'd rather you donate to this giveaway. If you want to simply drop the code, there are threads for that purpose.

The point of the starred games was that they were highly sought after games and people would be good with a longer wait time. However both of those were under retail value a bit and did not get the entries that either me or Doc thought. I need some time to think about this before making a final decision.

For my part, I have already been blessed this month, otherwise both titles "Slay the Spire" and "Knight vs Giant" would have been interesting for me. Although I didn't even know about "Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur", that just went on my wish list. I'm always surprised by games here on GOG that I don't even know. So many great games and not enough time to play them all right away. :-)

A lot of the games being given away right now are leftovers from Doc's Intergalactic Clown School giveaway.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/giveaway_docs_intergalactic_clown_school/post2

Since I got my #1 pick on that giveaway (which was Megaquarium) and now Slay the Spire, I'm not going to miss out if I'm on a three month cool down. Even if some game I don't own that has cats popups up on the giveaway during that time, I'm not missing out.

However it looks like Bumbarash91 didn't attend Clown School, so I really do believe that he should be given the opportunity to claim something else if he sees something that he would like.


I'm only thinking about what is right and fair to everyone here.

Thank you Doc0075 for BallisticNG + DLC. God bless your generosity.

Wow, this time was so close! Congrats to the winners! ^_^

Starred games are a new thing and it will take some time to fine-tune it, if it's gonna stick.
I'm sure BenKii will find a way to make it as fair as possible, after different situation that will arise provide insight that couldn't be thought up front.
In the meanwhile, the rules are what they are and the should be followed, so if someone wins for a starred game it's 3 months cool down. A person entered knowing that if they win that's what will happen being it a (tough) contest or not, doesn't matter.

The difficult part in this system is determining what qualifies to be a starred game or not, and the reason why it will always be difficult is due the undenying fact that it's a highly subjective matter that can probably never be 100% fair.

One person's junk is another person's treasure. For an indie lover, some AAA blockbuster is worthless but they would really like to get their hands on some tiny gem which they have been following for months, for AAA titles enjoyers it would be the opposite (and you can be both of course and just judge what you'd like to play more at that point).

To give you an example, let's say a game I was interested in was on the regular list.
I arrive few hours late to notice that and it's already requested by a person who would never enter for a starred game as they don't care what they get as long as they get a game they don't have once a month (being a collector let's say, not to sound judgemental).
For me that's a game I would gladly enter a draw for and take the 3 months cool down if I win it, but I wasn't given that chance since the game of my interest was not deemed to be highly sought after or the donor marked it as so, whatever the case is.

So, at this point I can be dissatisfied with how the events didn't go my way even though nothing against the rules happened, or I can just wait and see and maybe I'll get a chance to get something I wanted more than the game I missed and end up being happy I missed it. I would choose the latter, of course.

Thank you for the opportunity and congratulations to the winners.

I was actually divided between Slay the Spire and Disco and went for Disco since I did play Slay before I was unsure if I could switch after already declaring an interest in one game. Had not know about Knight vs Giant.

I think for the majority of times I'll leave it at a 3 month cooldown when only one person enters in. But I'll leave room open for exceptions. Like in this case, with Slay the Spire and Knight vs Giant. Sometimes I can make a mistake and pick something that I thought was high demand for starred and it ends up getting little interest. So in this case I'll mark both recipients for 1 month.

One more thing. With all the donations for Fallout coming in, I feel the need to mark it daggered for several reasons. It was given away for free in the past, the codes expire in April, and I don't think many will request them while I still have Doc's games coming in. So not only am I marking them as daggered but I am also retroactively removing the cooldown for the one person that requested one this month, pferreira1983.

I agree about keeping the same cooldown.
The other titles were also good choices, it's just that those users have been lucky.
I would have entered for Slay the Spire too, if I could have chosen more than one entry.

Interesting idea. Why could we not choose to participate in more than one starred game at a time? Of course, if this person wins in more than one draw, he/she will have to choose only one of them.

Thank you Doc for Elex II and BenKii for hosting the giveaway.

May I grab one of those Fallout keys? Much obliged!

May I request POSTAL: Brain Damaged?

Maybe I'm mistaken with this, but enabling multiple choices for the starred games sort of defies the idea behind the starred games category, doesn't it?