We've excluded point 1.
Well, they're marketed as "avatar images", so I would argue that you would just put them to their intended use. What else should they be for? (point 2)
And secondly: You are effectively promoting the product they come from. And that's the point of spreading avatar images as a bonus - free advertisement. (point 4)
It could also be argued that the avatars are only a small portion of a bigger work - the game (point 3).

So I wouldn't worry in this case.

Now if you created a "derived work" from those avatars, say a version with bunny ears for upcoming Easter holidays - that would IMO fall under fair use.

Lastly I would not worry, since if a company would sue you over the use of avatars, you just create a public donation account and grab some popcorn and watch the shitstorm...

Ciris, do you have any update about new GOG policies?

You monster, how dare you correct typo's and/or punctuation.

I just read through both documents (just the EZ-English version on the right) and they look fine to me. I especially appreciate the no stress, early opportunity to read through them, as well as the plain language version on the right.

I have to say this new gift blocking is freaking shit. I was gifting Loom to my friends in the conversational thread and now I am blocked from buying more. I knew there is this new limit, so I bought five yesterday and wanted to buy one additional copy today. But I am still blocked from buying it.
Seriously I am really pissed right now -.-

Hmmm. Their standard update time is 3:01 am by my clock, maybe it's on a 24 hour cycle, resetting at that time?

Seems like a less than fantastic idea all the way around, since it's guaranteed to take money away from GOG when they limit people who want to gift others.

You have a point. Didn't really think of it in terms of trading since I never do it. But I'm sure some will try to get as much as they can and mess it up for everyone else.

^this :)
Personally, I feel that it ultimately is for our good as well and imo that measure is acceptable.
I'm sure if anyone has an even better idea of how to make harmful exploits impossible GoG would take it into consideration, though. :)

This topic is a minefield, and hopefully GOG will take a stand for freedom and join FSF, GNU, P2P and others that recognize this commercial transition to nurture and encourage fans and customers to be creative and innovative as opposed to becoming cash-cow zombies and drones to the monopolistic machine arm for the banking empire.

Why is there no refund on games that we don't want? if we do not like the game, like there is on steam. I will be buying games on steam and hope one day GOG will offer a refund policies, what do you guys think.

The big problem with that is the offline installers. Theoretically, one could buy a bunch of games, download them, and return them without GOG being any the wiser.

At least, that is what I thought.

One reason could be that you own the game when you buy it on GOG. You could download everything that has to do with the game and store it on thousands of places and then return it. The difference from physical refund or refund over at Steam is that you still own the game if you are so inclined.

Edit: carpediem15 beat me to it.

Exactly.