Thank you to you and everyone else for the kind words. You can still donate to the giveaway by messaging me on GOG, yes. If you're in the Discord server, I'd prefer if you DM me there, but even if I stop checking the forum completely, I'll still check my private messages in Galaxy so I can send invite links to people who request them. That means I'll also get any donations you throw my way.

u could try from the tor browser, if not....protonvpn (a good vpn service from what i hear) has a free tier

Sorry to hear you won't continue the Giveaways here at the forums, but I'm sure you have good reasons. Thank you for everything you've done for the community so far and best wishes managing the giveaways on Discord. :)

Oh....

So Doc is going to continue a giveaway here on GOG?

This is just getting confusing.

I have to confess I am feeling a little sad to see the community fragmented this way but i am sure every one has good reasons for it.

Doc said he plan to do his giveaway for forum users in different format at some point.

Ditto. *smiling&waving*

You are welcome, have fun with the game!

First, thank you for all this time and effort put into maintaining the giveaways, and to all the donors who "fed" them throughout the years.

Entirely understandable to no longer want to put all this effort into maintaining something intended to bring together and reward active members of a community that the higher ups of the site it's built around seem set on destroying, on the forums that those same people seem set on killing, the result of this being that the currently active community is becoming more and more just a bubble of sycophants, with ever more of the, shall we say, more discerning members leaving or being more or less explicitly driven away or silenced.

On the choice of moving to Discord, however... And you can see that it's not nearly every gamer who's on Discord, especially, just as you say, in case of those who were sticking just to GOG, or at least avoiding DRM-ed platforms. Moving to the, ahem, alternate forum would have struck me as more appropriate, but it is of course your call.
In my case, I've been staying away from any chat/messaging stuff for many years now, sticking to e-mail, this forum and the MobyGames one, ever less so but still a bit of Facebook used just as e-mail basically (no more public activity in years) and maybe a couple of other sites that also have messaging systems that can be used like e-mail, not as a chat. And in recent years I also seem to have hit a... mental limit of sites to make accounts on, so if I don't happen to already have an account elsewhere made who knows when which I may dig up to use (happens occasionally), I tend to refrain from posting anything even if I'd happen to want to unless I can do it as a guest. And I resisted using Discord despite being pointed to it all the time on for example MobyGames or by ZP people, but I did check something a couple of times on it, seeing that it can be used with a guest account. Now I gather that on this server made for this giveaway that won't be possible, which makes me wary about even having a look, even before the requiring phone number part. And if I would, seeing as I clearly won't be joining any conversations on a chat service, not sure how fair it'd be to just poke in to see whether anything I'd care about was donated and ask for it.

But, again, your call and entirely your right to make it.
... And, considering GOG's actions regarding the community, I can't in all fairness say that I'd want this giveaway to continue here.

So many emotions. But mainly I am sad you are leaving this giveaway. :( Are you leaving GOG too? I hope not... At the same time, I realize that life is constantly evolving and things happen and good things never last. :( I trust you've got valid reasons and I respect that.

I'm on Discord, but using a different name/avatar there. And thus far, I only use it with one friend to help beta test his games or if we need to voice chat while gaming. That said, I'm somewhat new to Discord: not even sure if I am permitted to create a second identity on Discord to match my GOG name? I'll need some time to mentally process all of this. At this point, I remain undecided. Is there a deadline to message you for an invite code?

Nonetheless, I wish to join Doc0075 and others here, to say a big THANK YOU for dedicating so much of your spare time in providing our community plenty of charitable fun. :) And you were so good at it too. ;) I'm certain you'll bring all of that great hosting talent over to Discord. Best of luck to you, finkleroy.

There's no deadline. All you have to do is right click on yourself on the right in the server and click "Edit Server Profile" to change your name just for the one server.

Good timing, then :P

This is exactly how it feels right now and I really don't know if I should cry or shout at GOG ...

I feel like most of us are probably doing both (crying and shouting).

I love these giveaways for GOG and Non-GOG stuff - and hate seeing them leave these boards. I'm going to have to look into Discord and all, since I don't normally use it - but I'd probably rather see them on Reddit or some other boards.

I'd like to thank FinkleRoy, Doc, and any other involved w/ the hosting & key-supplying here. You all RULE.

All good things come to an end, I guess. Thank you, finkleroy, Doc0075 and all the fine folks who kept this giveaway going for so many years.

I'm not using Discord, so best of luck there, finkleroy and the ones who'll join.

The only thing constant is change. Sad but it was certainly great while it lasted.