I'm no zealot but I honestly do resent all the avatars which never seem to show themselves outside of GAs. I'll throw myself into a GA every now and then for games I actually want but I prefer to purchase my games for the most part, I just join for the possibilty of winning something.

Not in, lol, own it.

I've entered a few giveaways and actually won one, but I don't think that makes me a leech.
I am definitely not an anti-giveaway zealot. I like them and am ok with people entering as many as they feel comfortable with as long as they actually have an interest in the games and intend to play them if they win.

Not in for this giveaway since I have it on CD and probably won't play it again any time soon.

Welcome to the forums. I have only started using them recently, but people here seem friendly. Don't worry about bad experiences here.

Not in, but whoa! You're not a GA slut! You're the GA QUEEN!

I was so hoping that sentence would have ended differently. lol

Welcome to the forums. I've been here only a little time but its better than most fourms I've been a part of. Bad experiences aren't on the menu here so no need enter being on the defensive. Lighten up!

Not in, since I'm finding out I'm not the RPG type :D

I too just enter giveaways as if its a lottery. I don't feel hatred to people who set up GAs and people who win them. Its like a forum game, don't take it overly seriously (for the entrants). For the people who organize GAs, they have the right to do what they want to do and they choose to do a social, cheery activity so thumbs up to them!

*gasp!*

Not in. Have the boxed version of the game, will buy it of I want to play it again and can't get it to run.

I'm neither leech nor zealot. I've not entered many giveaways and won only once (Alpha Centauri). I've been gifted several games from very generous community members when they heard I'd like to have them but couldn't afford them at the moment. I have yet to host a GA, but it will come as soon as I can afford it. I've gifted several games to people I know personally in real life. They are not active in the community unfortunately, either for lack of time or lack of English ;-).

I try to keep an even ratio of give and receive. I don't count in gitting to rl friends, so I have at least one game to give away before I will enter another GA.

Not in as I also got it in a bundle on steam and afaik the GOG version also doesn't works on Windows 7 :/.

Also I'm not a leech and certainly not a zealot. I do enter giveaways occasionally, but I've also held several giveaways myself, though lately I had some unexpected expenses and my gifting slowed down considerably :P.
Anyway nice idea and thanks for your generosity!

Sometimes i take a part in giveaways games but never win any.
As of being leech? Nope i don't think so - never tried to get game i do not want to have (some car racing or sport games do not affect me). Also i had 2 copies of Witcher which i did give out for free - IMHO it is better for them to be used by someone than just hanging there on my account as unused gift codes.
Of course when GoG give something for free i take it (as it was with Fallouts, Dungeon Keeper or Witcher) but who doesn't? Though never i take something more than once (witcher was added to bought gamesi bought 3 games so i get 3 copies), that's it.
And no i don't say it toget Gorky - not interested :)
But as we're about Leeching thread - do You think buying games only on sales and when GoG gives for free is typeof leeching? I probably bought only 1 game in full price and it's HoMM3.

Not in but thanks for the giveaway!

Thank you 46175. Welcome to the GOG forum.
It's amazing you're already giving away games, since you're so new here.
It's not really a requirement, it just shows how generous you're!!
You'll find leeches here and a couple of scammers, but mostly the people of gog are gamers.
Gogers (myself included) talk about games, argue about games, give help about games, solve issues in games, collect games, give away games and sometimes even play those games.

I'm in for this game as I wanted to try it and I didn't want to get the steam version since it's available on gog.
Btw there are many bundles that include it, isn't it curious?
I don't consider myself to be a leech, even if I have entered an awful lot of giveaways. As my collection on gog grows, I enter fewer giveaways. I'm not against giveaways either, people that want to help other people are admirable in my opinion. I haven't given back to this community as much as I wanted (just a couple of ninja'd games, 4 or 5 through steamgifts and a couple of coupons) but this will be corrected soon.........
The giveaways that attract me the most are the ones that include puzzles, or questions, or even drawing.

Not in, but +1 for the giveaway, and welcome to the forums!

I'm definitely not a leech - I've entered three or four giveaways in the past few years, I think, and won one (Super Panda Adventures, although I'm ashamed to admit that I've forgotten who gifted it to me). Also, someone was kind enough to gift me Wolfenstein 3D on Steam for nothing in return (a kind Scottish fellow who shall remain nameless, lest I inadvertently cause leeches to fall upon him).

Whether I'm a zealot? I dunno, I suppose that's for others to decide. I do appreciate the generosity of people on this forum, and I do appreciate that a gift from others in a real community is much more appreciated than from a total stranger. The problem is that I see a lot of people entering that aren't part of this "community" - either their posts consist almost exclusively of giveaway entries, or they have the audacity to beg for someone to gift a game to them.

As I see it, GOG forum giveaways are gifts from friends to friends. We're all friends here. It's like meeting with a group of mates in a bar, offering to buy a round of drinks, when suddenly some complete stranger comes in and says, "yeah thanks, I'll have a beer".

That's why I do think there should be certain rules on giveaway entries - rep and join date being good and fairly reliable examples (although some users - like LesterKnight99 - seem to have a rep value that is constantly nosediving despite apparently doing comparatively little wrong) - to discourage leeching. I guess it should be up to the giveaway holder to determine where and when exceptions should be made.

You might argue that giveaways on these here forums certainly have the potential to bring more people to GOG who might otherwise have not discovered it. The question is, are these kinds of people really the sorts of people that GOG wants using up its bandwidth?

An interesting question.
Most likely my posts will so me as a Leech.
So that puts me out.
I hate self-reflective questions.

Thanks for the giveaway 46175.

I am a zealot, and you forgot "giveaway" in your thread title. Shame on you.