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Surprise box telling me, that I have the surprise already, is nice, but not offering those would work even better.

Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse Season Pass.
Cause its new its not on sale. Maybe next year ;-)

Apparently it's a common error:
"Q: It's pretty hilarious that your character is called The Swede, despite being from Norway.
A: It actually happens all the time! Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think."

Sadly I can't find a youtube clip of "The Swede" delivering one his funnier lines (IIRC after having been put down for being Swedish and after everyone walked away and so couldn't actually hear his response): "But, but, I'm from Norvay. I'm Norvegian".

What if someone already has all the games (they are interested in) and the other bundle has a game that they want?

Interestingly, today's Sci-Fi Combat Bundle won the vote against a Military Combat Sim pack at 80% off. Probably a rare exception, though.

I wonder why Freespace (both) werent included in the Space sim bundle?

Ah, I just have the first one on recommendation from a friend but haven't played it yet. I'll pick the rest of them up when they're on a big promo in the future at some point I reckon though. Looks like a good series.

Yeah, they made a big improvement showing us the 3 titles up front to let us decide which of the 3 we might be interested in instead of picking one at random you're not interested in and then not buying it. No sale. But, now it shows 3 titles you can see that might be all or some games you own, and whether they're hidden from us or shown up front, it's kind of pointless to see a game offer that you already own if the goal is to induce you to buy something and there is a random element to things.

If I was the one coding that part of the promo, I would take the promo game pool for each of the 3 categories in turn, read the user's owned games list (which they do), and remove those games from the pool, then choose a random game from what is left. Do that for each of the 3 offers, and offer someone 3 actual true offers that are each an actual possibility they're potentially going to buy because they don't own it already.

"Here's 3 special offers! We know you own two of them though but we'll show you them anyway although you're not likely to buy something you already own." doesn't seem like a way to generate maximum sales. :)

The first 6 or 7 days of the promo the game that came up for me was one I owned already so no chance of a sale at all from that part of the promo for me. When they changed it now I can see all 3 which is nice but every day 2 of them were games I owned already, so they eliminated the problem of me blindly choosing a deal that turned out to be one I owned already and possibly missing out on one I didn't own, but while now I can see all of them, 2 of them are still not really options for me. The one game that showed up each day I didn't own was not on my wishlist and not up my alley so I find the mystery promo an interesting idea but with failed execution. :)

What I think would both generate more sales and make more customer's flock to the site and be happy with getting new games under the same context is to take a list of games that they're authorized to promo, remove the games the person already owns from the list, find the union of that list and the user's wishlist and choose 3 games from that to offer, randomizing it from that each day. If the person doesn't have a wishlist or doesn't have enough games on the wishlist, then offer some games from the wishlist and the rest random from the promo pool, or all from the promo pool respectively. But never offer someone games they already own as they're much less likely to buy a game they already own except for cases of gifting. Only GOG would know the stats on that of course but without seeing demographics I'd think that in most cases a promo of an owned game is a lost sale rather than a gift purchase.

What surprises me is that I've got 150 games or so on my wishlist and while some have come up on the promo, the majority of them don't appear to be in the promo at all. Maybe I bought too many games last year and they're trying to help me cut down this year? LOL

Even though the promo offers have some weaknesses in their design, it's still creative and has a fun element to it and did manage to pick up 2 games and 3 freebies so it's all good. But last year I got like 75 games or so, so quite a huge difference! :)

Very valid points.... however, I wonder about the following (feel free to provide your take on it):

Since this site's user base (or at least many of the active forum users) does a lot of gifting and trading of games, maybe by allowing you to get something you already have at a discounted price will allow you to get for that discounted price a game someone else wants but did not get that same discount offer, while that someone else could have gotten the one you wanted or at least one you are interested in.

Looking at it this way, it seems the intent was to also facilitate / encourage trading and thus build community.

Thoughts anyone?

Its all still a bit of a crapshoot and to be really quite honest (someone else said this..i think gzb69... cant remember his username), its been pointed out there actually isn't that much trading between Gog members for GOG games (if anything its mostly people with leftovers from an array of indie bundles - mostly steam keys trying to trade for GOG games). It might be nice idea to stimulate trading discounted offers (at least in short term) & it has worked to a degree (at least based on what we can see of completed trades on thread etc), but i really dont know - partly to do with people able to er..... do work arounds... to avoid having to trade.... (in all honesty im in favour of a separate thread for trading of GOG games only, instead of wading through millions of indie steam keys i have no interest in (check Classifieds - normally its hard to find anyone with GOG games on offer to trade))

Kinda wish they were, they look a lot better than Aquanox.

I think if GOG wants to incentivize trading, they need to change how they do gift codes. If I wanted to stock up on games I own with the purpose of trading or gifting, I wouldn't want them all bound to a single gift code, and making numerous purchases one after the other is just going to get my card blocked by my bank.

Maybe I'm just a dull, old man, but I find all these weird sale gimmicks more annoying than anything.

How much more does a daily surprise take off a game? I have Outlast as one, but it's normally fairly expensive and if the daily surprise doesn't cut it enough, I might just go for total annihilation instead.