It's completely up to you, how many e-mails you receive from GOG.

Unsubscribe from all emails and never claim another giveaway. Simple.

You can also set up filtering rules to move all emails from GOG to a GOG folder.

The strangest thing is that in the last couple of months GOG sends two emails for a discount code! The first is when the discount starts, and the second is 24h before it expires (as a reminder I guess). I would prefer if we stayed in the one email.

Edit: I mean the newsletter discounts.

I don't mind the number of their e-mails, but the format is super annoying at times.

The message title can have several emojis, which my offline mail reader can't even display, the messages contain all kinds of animated images and flashing thingamabobs, and the "biggest discount ever" may not actually be the biggest ever, and those "personal discounts" are exactly the same as they are with other users.

Is there anyone who is actually motivated to buy anything by this kind of messaging?


Now, compare that to if we received a text-only message, which would list in alphabetical order those games on the wishlist that are currently discounted, followed by the current price and discount percentage. How cool and informative would that be?
A direct link to the gamecard would be helpful too, as a link that actually looks like a link, and not in some animated gif or something.


I'm not bothered enough to cancel those e-mails, but most of the time I just delete them without reading them at all. I don't think that serves the purpose they are sent for.

Yes, as everyone pointed out - this is clearly a self-inflicted problem. You consented to the marketing emails and now you're boycotting because you subbed to them in the first place. This is like going to a party for free food and getting angry that you have to be around other people.

First world problems... </Rolleyes/>

Ah, good. The complementary end of the year confused user shouts at GOG thread. Would be a pity not to have one :P.

I do wish the subscriptions had better controls. Like:

I would like you to Notify me if there are:
[] New games
[] My wishlist games on sale
[] Free giveaway
[] Sales
[] Discount codes
[] New upgrades to previously owned titles

And then check the ones you get.

And stop the fucking auto-subscribe when you claim a freebie. Or Unicode lettering having FLASH SALE but in english but are in bubbles and special type fonts, so they just come up as ???????? in the email client?

Yeah totally annoying. Maybe.

It took months before the emails stopped after unsubscribing. Think i was getting 3-4 a week, not a single thing worth looking at.

I understand disliking spam...

... but...

... a few emails a week is too much?

And isn't leaving GOG a bit of an overreaction to a few emails you're free to disregard?

Personally I like getting GOG emails and have no issue unless they become daily. Gives me a break from real life to see what game's on discount! But that's just my take. Others obviously feel differently.

Don't make it too easy for him :)


Anyway, @OP
Bye

Precisely all this. I usually just trashbin the GOG emails because of the emoji and how they're all graphics (which I do not load) and no text. I usually have no idea what the message even is supposed to be.
Yes, it is. One weekly email with occasional special event/announcement (and must be truly special -- maybe 1x/month tops) should more than suffice. More than that is just wasteful of everyone's time, attention, and electricity.

I can't imagine how much E-mail I'd have to receive weekly before I would flip out over it, but then I've been archiving it for over 25 years.

I'd be fine with a max of 2 non-wishlist emails a week. A weekly newsletter for any upcoming sales. releases, giveaways, and any site updates to check out and another to announce any 72 hr coupon codes. The latter seems like a service that publishers can use to promote their products.

Of course, I already set up rules to forward it to my GOG folder and never really open it.