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Game doesn't work for you? Tell us to fix it! If we can't we'll give you your money back!

So, you bought a game on GOG.com and you've run into some trouble launching and playing it on your system, despite the fact it meets the specs we've put on the game's catalog page? This happens rarely, as our test lab does its best to assure your experience with our titles is as smooth as possible. But it does happen. And when it does, we want to give you the best support you'll ever get from an on-line store. Just navigate to our Support section--it's quite possible that the solution to your problem is already posted there. If not, just fill in a ticket describing your troubles and our top men will do their best to fix it all for you, so you can enjoy your purchase.

orldwide Money Back Guarantee YouTube announcement

But what if they cannot find a solution? If such a rare event should occur, we'll give you your money back. Simple as that. If you buy a game on GOG.com and find that it doesn't work properly on your system, and our support cannot fix the problem, you get a full refund. It's a worldwide guarantee, and you have whole 30 days after the purchase date, to contact us about the refund.

There's even more! If you bought a game by mistake, or simply changed your mind about a purchase, you can get a full refund within 14 days, as long as the game wasn't downloaded. If in any doubt about our refund policies, please consult our FAQ.

We hope our Worldwide Money Back Guarantee will make you feel secure while you expand your DRM-free catalog on GOG.com. Having that said, we're confident that our titles won't give you any trouble in 99.9% cases!

NOTICE:
Even though this policy is introduced today, its effect goes back 30 days. If you bought a game within the last 30 days and have any of the trouble described here, contact us! We have you covered.
Post edited December 11, 2013 by G-Doc
This is great news, even though I haven´t had any problems with the games I downloaded from GoG yet I´ve seen some that have had problems with getting the games to run on their computers. Great news indeed=).
Post edited December 09, 2013 by CorranHorn
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Fever_Discordia: PS Messiah is working great now - even better than my own hacking to get it working with the 3dFX exe and nGlide, I still had some sound issues when I did it myself but the new GOG version is working perfectly! \o/
It is? I should try installing it again then. That one never worked on my system.
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ZPavelZ: Well this is actually legitimately great news. No ... THIS IS GREAT NEWS!
However, how are you going to deal with gifts? I mean I would assume the 14-day moneyback wouldn't affect those otherwise there would be room for potential scamming/abuse.
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TheEnigmaticT: The FAQ talks about it, but basically whoever buys the game gets the money back when a refund is issued; the service complaint needs to originate from the account that actually owns the game, though.
But wouldn't that make scamming possible? E.g. as in person A buys a gift, trades it for something with person B and then applies for a refund? (This person could also make such actions from multiple new accounts with new dynamic IPs).

I mean don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic about this new service addition, I just think it needs a little bit more polish.
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TheEnigmaticT: ... We can't. But as we mention in the FAQ: we *are* tracking how many times a user asks for a refund. if it seems likely that you're trying to abuse the system--based on our knowledge of the games that you've asked for money back on, how many games you own, your system specs that you've provided us, and a witch's brew of other metrics, we'll respond...unpleasantly.
That's the least you should do, but I guess the overwhelming majority of the users will play it nicely. And the 14 days money back for game not downloaded is also really nice. Love that. Keep on adding more cool features! :)
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cyboff: bad news for developers of short games >:)
Good Limbo and Dear Ester arent on GOG then ;)
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cyboff: bad news for developers of short games >:)
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IanM: I'm guessing that there won't be many problems, but GOG will identify those abusing the system and stop selling to them. I did a couple of stints working in high street games stores when I was in college, back when customers were allowed to return games with 10 days under a satisfaction or your money back guarantee. I have to say there were very few returns, except for Final Fantasy games, and the manager said in several years he only ever banned one person from the store for abusing the returns policy, and one other was banned from using the return policy but not the store. Not bad considering the volumes of units the store sold. Who'd of thought that if you treat customers with respect 99% of them will be honest...
I'm quite sure that existing customers are very happy here and do not want to abuse or harm GOG this way...
But during some good promo or e.g. release of Witcher 3 I can see quite a lot of new "customers" want to check if it works :D

P.S. Anyway, with refund possibility or not, I'm still waiting for "launching issue" patch for Speeball 2 HD :P
I like the refund policy. One time I purchased a game by mistake; I'd actually meant to gift it, but by the time I confirmed the purchase, it was too late. Now it sits uselessly on my shelf. It's a good game, but I already have it from before and have played it many times, so I won't download it.
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TheEnigmaticT: The FAQ talks about it, but basically whoever buys the game gets the money back when a refund is issued; the service complaint needs to originate from the account that actually owns the game, though.
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ZPavelZ: But wouldn't that make scamming possible? E.g. as in person A buys a gift, trades it for something with person B and then applies for a refund? (This person could also make such actions from multiple new accounts with new dynamic IPs).

I mean don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic about this new service addition, I just think it needs a little bit more polish.
Person "A" buys a gift and presents it to person "B". Person "B" (the guy who got the gift) needs to be the one asking for the refund. If the game doesn't work on his system--and our Support guys can't help--then person "A" gets back the money for the gift.

Scamming that doesn't seem very plausible to me?

EDIT: and by the time you're going round robin with multiple accounts and dynamic IPs, I think it's probably easier to just pirate the game than it is to think of increasingly clever ways to scam us.
Post edited December 09, 2013 by TheEnigmaticT
Aye, the scamming seems covered there.

Overall a nice bit of service from GOG. Should work just fine. The cost of games is already quite low here anyway, so scamming should be limited. This would be a much bigger concern with top priced AAA releases.

So basically it's,

Refund within 14 days, if the game isn't downloaded.
Refund within 30 days if downloaded but there are unsolvable problems after working with support.
No refund if downloaded and no problems (I assume)
Post edited December 09, 2013 by Pheace
This is fantastic news for us, consumers, I hope the percentage of assholes abusing this system will be marginal.
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TheEnigmaticT: to think of increasingly clever ways to scam us.
But they lynched me in the current mafia game and I need something to exercise my mind. You mean I should turn towards world domination instead?
It makes me happy, though:

- Schnuff has a point;
- Commercial reality is much different - unfortunately - , nevertheless it should be a Golden Rule generally speaking.

Since it is not actually this again shows why GOG is so likeable...
So happy with this. Good work guys.
Little question - does it work with games bought before indroducing refunds?
Non-working GOG game never happened to me and I have over 300 of those :) Sure, some required to mess a little with the setup but other than that...
Anyway, it's nice to see even more customer love from GOG!
Post edited December 09, 2013 by Novotnus