Posted April 22, 2014
Trilarion: Maybe you could tell the guys that told you that the legitimate GOG customers are not feeling very comfortable with it. You could suggest them to increase the limit to up to five copies per purchase. Also you could propose to limit this to customers who already have a nice track record like 20 purchased games for their own or whatever. Would that rule out questionable sources of payment?
Btw. I could imagine that a smart key reseller writes himself a programm to automatically repeat the checkout procedure. Such a tool would even be useful for gifters.
JudasIscariot: Even with 5 copies, there is still the chance for abuse. Keep in mind, that for some banks (I am no expert on this!) it takes a while to register that something fishy is going on. If you have someone querying the bank with individual purchases, then it's a safer bet they'll step in before too much damage is done. Again, I am no banking expert and, yes, I know we have legitimate serial gifters here and it's awesome as hell but, unfortunately, there's too much of a chance for abuse if we allow folks to buy more than one game code at a time. Btw. I could imagine that a smart key reseller writes himself a programm to automatically repeat the checkout procedure. Such a tool would even be useful for gifters.
Well.... shit.
I'm not blaming gog, since it's obvious everywhere does it, but dammit I'm tired of being treated like a criminal because someone else is. I think I'll give away the codes I've got (which there is plenty so it'll be awhile before this happens) and then I'll just stop gifting at all. Damn that's frustrating that this explains the trouble I'm having on BOTH ends. I'm being treated like a criminal because someone else is and I don't like it.
And BTW, are we talking individuals here? I couldn't understand really what you were talking about when you said it at first because my first thought was "wait a minute, there isn't anyone selling gog keys" because of all the stores I've been too, I've seen Steam keys being sold, but never, not once, have I seen a store offer gog keys. So I assume we're talking individuals as opposed to businesses?