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Posted August 18, 2017
New Piñatas • New Deals • Last Chances


The final 72 hours of Piñata Madness are here, and the mystery-sale bonanza grows bigger – today brings exciting new Piñatas and hot new offers!

If you haven't tried your luck yet, now's the time with new additions to the pool. These include: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition 1 & 2, SWAT 4, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, NEO Scavenger, Wasteland 2, This War of Mine.
Plus all things Homeworld with Homeworld 1 & 2 Remastered, Deserts of Kharak, as well as the long-gone expansion – Homeworld: Emergence.

If you're not the type to smash Piñatas, there are new great games on sale right now so make sure to give it a browse – and while you're here, check out the Carmageddon 20th Anniversary Sale at 75% off!


--Original announcement--
Piñata Madness is back – meaning excitement, mystery, and exceptional deals on some of our favorite hand-picked titles.




What is Piñata Madness?
For $3, you can buy and smash your own digital Piñata, each holding one of 100+ mystery games worth anywhere from $5.99 all the way up to $44.99.
Visit your <span class="bold">Pinata hub</span>, where can buy, open, and see everything Piñata Madness!
Just like real-life Piñatas, they'll bring you joy, surprise, and reward. Unlike real-life Piñatas, ours drop really good games instead of candy – games like Pillars of Eternity, Shadow Warrior 2, Heroes of Might and Magic, Victor Vran, and more!
It's a great way to broaden your horizons and try out games you otherwise wouldn't, knowing you're always getting a deal that's worth it. And if you already own every game included in our Piñatas, each game you drop will be a giftable code so you share the joy with your friends.







Weekly Megasale
If you'd rather know exactly you're getting, check out the Weekly Megasale featuring great deals up to -90% on some of our favorite titles including Darkest Dungeon, Shadowrun: Hong Kong, Heroes of Might and Magic III, and more!



The Piñata Madness and Weekly Megasale last until August 21, 2017, 9:59 PM UTC.
Posted August 15, 2017
i think it would have been much more satisfactory for buyers of pinatas if they didnt combine the event with a mega sale. Come on marketing, get it together. When people cash in their pinatas it would have been much better to see the original price of the game, then the concurrent sale price right? then they would be raving over how they 'got one up' on good ole gog. :P

Marketing 101


anywho, best of luck to everyone and enjoy
Posted August 15, 2017
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Croyzers: I can't help but feel a promotion like buy 4 games - get 1 free would have worked so much better.
Buy 4 get 1 free is always one of my favorites anywhere, online shops usually have them, bol dot com has them manytimes they usually also have lots of games that will give the cheapest game free so if 3 games are bought and 2 are 8.99 and one is 7.99 then you get the 7.99 free plus all the games in that offer are also available at listprice if you want only one game.

So a sale where something like that would be used would be great: put up a set number of games at the buy 4 get 1 free (so you pay for 3 games and you always know what game you get, no more suprises cause suprises is equal to being very lucky)
Posted August 15, 2017
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finkleroy: What do you mean when you say the downloader "ate a GB of HDD space"?
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musteriuz: lol, I meant a 100 GB of space - every time you download a game, the game files are on your HDD and the gog downloader size on your HDD increases as well, maybe for save slots or patches or whatnot.
After I download a game's new install files, I use them to replace the previous install files for that game in my game install files archive folder on a different disk, then delete the GOG download folder (which the downloader automatically re-creates each time I download something) and clear the game from the downloader. I've never had any of the issues you describe, and my program files folder for the downloader is 1.78 MB.

I just find it a lot easier to download all the install files or goodies with one click, and when I purchase multiple games at once, it's nice to get everything all queued up with a few clicks. As long as you sort the files you download and delete previous install files, you shouldn't have any problems with the downloader "eating HDD space". Some people like to keep the game in the downloader and the downloaded install files where the downloader downloads them to, and this may be the source of your issue. If you leave the game in the downloader, it'll auto detect when the game is updated, but I'm not really worried about that, as I check the "what has just updated?" thread every day and use Barefoot Essentials and Adalia Fundamentals. I hope this helps explain how the downloader works and how to use it without it wasting HDD space.
Posted August 15, 2017
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Croyzers: I can't help but feel a promotion like buy 4 games - get 1 free would have worked so much better.
Absolutely. Hope we will see a sell like this in the future.
Posted August 15, 2017
There's still no link to the Weekly Megasale. I'm definitely not going to buy anything this week if I can't browse the list as per usual. There's always a list. Why is this week any different?
Posted August 15, 2017
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elcook: Hey all, just wanted to drop by in this thread to address some of the issues you are experiencing, and let you know we're not leaving you alone with them!

As of right now, there should be no issues with Piñatas not showing in the Piñata Hub if your order went through. If you still don't see any Piñatas in the hub, please reach out to our support.

If you received duplicates of games while there are still games you don't own in the pool, please reach out to our support, we will refund the duplicates for you.

As for getting games in the Piñatas that are cheaper on the current sale - this is an issue mainly with local prices, and we're sorry for that. I don't have a solution for this right now, but I just wanted to let you know we'll deal with it so everyone who was affected by this should be content. Will definitely get back on this subject in the next days when we're back in the office.

If a game you found in the Piñata doesn't work for you, and we cannot fix it for you, you're eligible for our 30 days Money Back Guarantee, so feel free to contact our support.

Also, thank you for all your feedback regarding the mechanics, i.e. offering gift codes instead of allocating game to you library or being able to choose OS for the games you want in Piñatas. We'll discuss these options for next Piñatas.

Hope that covers most of the topics in this thread. If there's anything else you'd like to ask about Piñatas, just let me know!
So now it shouldn't be possible for those who for example preordered Pillars of Eternity or Tyranny to get the game from a pinata? Or the chance still exists but we can claim a refund?
Posted August 15, 2017
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LootHunter: Is Deadlight a sequel of Dying Light? :P
Eeeeeemm, no.



Regarding pinatas, I'm also not into gambling thing. But hey, it's just another side option during a sale, not much of a deal.

Maybe I'll even try it before it ends XD.
Posted August 15, 2017
i would buy some piñatas if the games were giftable. they arent so case is solved
Posted August 15, 2017
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groze: I really don't understand why so many people are getting upset and feel "cheated" over this... i
Because it IS cheating us.

Not being overtly clear how we gain very little between getting a pinata or the game directly AND the fact that it is totally random.

When putting things clearly, getting any pinata whatsoever is utterly useless.

I think I'm myself going to ignore any further sale if it has that crap again.

Even Steam sales don't do crap like these anymore, why can't gog's?

I wish I could get my money back on those... but that's my fault, not going to fall for it again. >:<
Post edited August 15, 2017 by Zoidberg
Posted August 15, 2017
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groze: I really don't understand why so many people are getting upset and feel "cheated" over this...
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Zoidberg: Because it IS cheating us.

Not being overtly clear how we gain very little between getting a pinata or the game directly AND the fact that it is totally random.

When putting things clearly, getting any pinata whatsoever is utterly useless.

I think I'm myself going to ignore any further sale if it has that crap again.

Even Steam sales don't do crap like these anymore, why can't gog's?

I wish I could get my money back on those... but that's my fault, not going to fall for it again. >:<
Yeah, buddy, you forget to read the FAQ and then blame it on GOG for not being "overtly clear"... right.

Then again, the only thing I expect from you, in this forum, is to constantly bitch and moan about prices and how games are never really worth the value they're being sold for, so it comes as no surprise that you feel cheated, robbed, abused, probably even violated.

Don't ever go to a casino, that's all I say. Those guys never overtly make it clear that if you bet on random stuff you're likely just giving money to the house. At least in this sale you get something, regardless of whether you like it or not. Why people like you even consider getting a GOG piñata is mind-boggling. Then again, you might have bought a few just so you could complain about how unfair the gamble is.
Posted August 15, 2017
Paid $3 for pinata, got a game worth $2.99 lol.

To top it off, it's a game I have zero interest in and will never play. Oh well, it was only a few bucks, but I probably won't be trying my luck on this anymore...

Good luck to all who do play though!
Post edited August 15, 2017 by Valtiel1980
Posted August 15, 2017
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Lobuno: I don't like abit of this piñata thing, but:

You people voluntarily go gambling for games, and when you "lose" you come back here whinning... Really not a smart move at all. Sad.
It's human nature. To want to know the unknown. Then whine when things don't go your way.

This is why pre-orders for incomplete games, paid DLCs and Season Passes still exist.
Post edited August 15, 2017 by BrokenBull
Posted August 15, 2017
You were doing so well and then you lost me at this

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groze: Why people like you even consider getting a GOG piñata is mind-boggling. Then again, you might have bought a few just so you could complain about how unfair the gamble is.
Errr.... ok then...

Looks like Zoidberg was just complaing about how crap the deal was the he got. He might have got something, but if he's never going to play it, and can't swap it for something else, then it is completey worthless. He's thrown his money away. He has every right to complain and moan. If we can't refund the games then how are we to let GOG know that this is crap? How can we let other people know that this is crap and help them make a more informed decision about this?

It's interesting, as if a product wasn't garunteed after the pinata, then this would be a strict gamble and be covered under gambling laws. As it is, this is a cross-over between consumer and gambling laws. Why GOG would risk going into such legal grey area's is beyond me.
Posted August 15, 2017
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BrokenBull: It's human nature. To want to know the unknown. Then whine when things don't go your way.

This is why pre-orders for incomplete games, paid DLCs and Season Passes still exist.
Sales... the final frontier...
Posted August 15, 2017
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BrokenBull: It's human nature. To want to know the unknown. Then whine when things don't go your way.

This is why pre-orders for incomplete games, paid DLCs and Season Passes still exist.
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Robette: Sales... the final frontier...
...these are the voyages of the naive gamers...
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