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Posted April 03, 2012
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adambiser: Hmm, if I'm not too late, I'm in, too. However, I'm pretty sure I missed it. But +1 to you, thanks!
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ksj8ak2: First pick. Ask me via PM, and I'll try to mail you the gift code for whjatever you ask for, provided I decide to do so.
You have been PM'd. Thank you, no matter what you decide.
Posted April 03, 2012
Just wanted to say thanks for your giveaway!

Count me out since the only thing that interests me is TW2 and that one is kind of expensive. And don't even have the time to play it.
Post edited April 03, 2012 by kavazovangel
Posted April 03, 2012
By the way ksj8ak2, you could probably just spend it on games for yourself. There's plenty there, and we'll recommend a few too. It's your money and your choice after all.
Posted April 03, 2012
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ksj8ak2: snip
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Titanium: Ok, we'll do this nice and easy. We need to get some things sorted out.

First off, a big thank you for doing this giveaway. It's nice to spread some joy every once in a while. It's a time honored tradition here.

Most of the time, we put our fellow GOGers through a challenge so they "earn" their games. It can be a complex chore, simple process of elimination or just a random pick of the winner.

The method of gifting is usually as such: the winner picks a game(s), and the gifter then buys it, gifts the codes to himself, and copy/pastes the code to the winner through our Personal Messages (the PM sign if you hover your mouse over an avatar of a fellow user).

That's the usual way, but there really aren't any rules about it. It can be wild wild west for all we care. the point is that it's interesting and fun. (especially for those who get the gifts ;)
About the only concern I have about this, is that I'd very much like to credit an account at will with a purchase, so that I, as a gift giver, am able to hand out my gift to exaclty to whomever I want.

Right now, it looks like, that I have to 'collect' wishers, and then purchase 'gift-codes', and then hand these out to those I chose.

MfG CoCo
Posted April 03, 2012
Since the pricing is the same (wel 2 variants: 9,99 and 5,99) for nearly all the titles you can limit your gifts to say 5,99$ only and gift anyone you like with what they like.

Dunno how you want to resolve this but I'd suggest simply PMing the users of your choice and asking them what they want, eg. single 5,99$ title.
As somene said above you write your own email on checkout and then PM the giftable code you get to that user.

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ksj8ak2: About the only concern I have about this, is that I'd very much like to credit an account at will with a purchase, so that I, as a gift giver, am able to hand out my gift to exaclty to whomever I want.

Right now, it looks like, that I have to 'collect' wishers, and then purchase 'gift-codes', and then hand these out to those I chose.

MfG CoCo
Yeah, so far there's no other way.
Post edited April 03, 2012 by azah_lemur
Posted April 03, 2012
Thanks for the giveaway mate :) (not entering, too late anyway hahah) :)
Posted April 03, 2012
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Titanium: Ok, we'll do this nice and easy. We need to get some things sorted out.

First off, a big thank you for doing this giveaway. It's nice to spread some joy every once in a while. It's a time honored tradition here.

Most of the time, we put our fellow GOGers through a challenge so they "earn" their games. It can be a complex chore, simple process of elimination or just a random pick of the winner.

The method of gifting is usually as such: the winner picks a game(s), and the gifter then buys it, gifts the codes to himself, and copy/pastes the code to the winner through our Personal Messages (the PM sign if you hover your mouse over an avatar of a fellow user).

That's the usual way, but there really aren't any rules about it. It can be wild wild west for all we care. the point is that it's interesting and fun. (especially for those who get the gifts ;)
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ksj8ak2: About the only concern I have about this, is that I'd very much like to credit an account at will with a purchase, so that I, as a gift giver, am able to hand out my gift to exaclty to whomever I want.

Right now, it looks like, that I have to 'collect' wishers, and then purchase 'gift-codes', and then hand these out to those I chose.

MfG CoCo
Credit cards aren't saved to the site, so there's also no stored on-site credits. When you choose to gift a code, it'll ask for an email. If you send it to yourself, it'll tell you the code in your email and on the page you ordered from, which you can give to someone else.

Another note, make sure you don't buy in bulk. The games are going to lump into one code, so that one person will get everything ordered at the same time.
Posted April 03, 2012
Also note that you don't have to check your email for each code. You can go to https://www.gog.com/account/gifts and it will show each gift code. When you click the code it will tell you what game it is for, if it has been redeemed, and who redeemed it. As QC pointed out though don't buy more than 1 game at a time or you will get a bundle gift code.
Posted April 03, 2012
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QC: snip

Another note, make sure you don't buy in bulk. The games are going to lump into one code, so that one person will get everything ordered at the same time.
That's right, In other words. If you buy 5 games and mark them as a gift, all 5 will become 1 gift-code and redeeming it will give all 5 games. So be sure to buy every gift separately.
Posted April 03, 2012
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QC: Another note, make sure you don't buy in bulk. The games are going to lump into one code, so that one person will get everything ordered at the same time.
Yes, this is very important. Unless he will ask GOG staff to divide whole order into separate codes to give more profit to GOG. ;)
Posted April 03, 2012
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ksj8ak2: About the only concern I have about this, is that I'd very much like to credit an account at will with a purchase, so that I, as a gift giver, am able to hand out my gift to exaclty to whomever I want.

Right now, it looks like, that I have to 'collect' wishers, and then purchase 'gift-codes', and then hand these out to those I chose.
If I understand this correctly, you want to give the money directly to people, just like you would credit a bank account. Technically, that's not possible here.

Indeed, the only way you can gift a game is how you described it from the second paragraph. One more thing to note:

Let's say you want to gift two different games to two different people. If you bought both games at once, you would get only one gift code, and as such there's a possibility that someone could get both games at once. This is because you gifts are connected to a single receipt, and for now can't be fragmented. You have to buy individual games to get individual gift codes. I'm sorry if this seems a bit hard to understand, but it's the way GOG does business here.
Posted April 03, 2012
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nijuu: Thanks for the giveaway mate :) (not entering, too late anyway hahah) :)
It's not too late. Unless I got it wrong, he picks the winners.
Posted April 03, 2012
can transfer if someone else has paypal or some other payment methods perhaps.
but it gets too confusing and no guarantee they gonna use it to buy a game
Posted April 03, 2012
I just learned, that for a gift coupon to be valid do need a reachable email adress. If you're keen to join in (you'd be surpised), include a replayable email adress in your pm.
Posted April 03, 2012
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ksj8ak2: I just learned, that for a gift coupon to be valid do need a reachable email adress. If you're keen to join in (you'd be surpised), include a replayable email adress in your pm.
There is an easier way: just use your own email address - then the person who receives give code (in text form) will be you - then use PM to send this gift code to proper person.
Post edited April 03, 2012 by Lexor
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