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Posted April 04, 2012
CD Projekt RED Group Spring Conference live tomorrow at 5:00 PM GMT

People say it is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies. GOG.com has proven otherwise, and you knew it’s spring after eight daisies already: Legend of Grimrock, Treasure Adventure Game, Trine, The Whispered World, Machinarium, Wing Commander 4, Spacechem, and Darwinia. However, as many a sudden change takes place on a spring day, we’re about to reveal another four amazing daisies tomorrow during CD Projekt RED Group Spring Conference.

The harvest of a whole year depends on what you sow in the springtime. And this year, oh boy, we’re into some serious sowing. During CD Projekt RED Group Spring Conference we will:
* tell you what has changed on GOG.com in case you missed it
* offer a sneak peek at future GOG.com releases
* give you a special gift as a big, sweet “thank you” to our users

Remember that those who arrive to the spring first, drink the purest water-- or
Remember that spring won't come from one flower--we need plenty of you to watch the CD Projekt RED Group Spring Conference!
Posted April 06, 2012
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wormholewizards: You called them fanbois, not sure who try to troll here.
apparently i am trolling although i really can phantom how my comment can be seen as troll.
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Pheace: portal
Oh? is it for free? when did that happen?
Post edited April 06, 2012 by lukaszthegreat
Posted April 06, 2012
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lukaszthegreat: Oh? is it for free? when did that happen?
It was put up for free for a day or so several years ago I think. I know it happened, but it was time limited like the commercial games Gog gives.

Edit: apparently not quite that long ago ... lol
September 16, 2011

Specifically, from now until September 20, you can download Portal (PC and Mac) absolutely free. Yesterday, it would have cost you $10.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20107221-58/portal-is-free-portal-is-free-for-pc-and-mac/

Edit2: Ow, and they also gave it out free back when they started their Steam for MAC thing back on May 12th 2010 somewhere.
In fact, until May 24th, Portal is actually completely free.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/12/steam-for-mac-now-live-portal-free-lucasarts-adventures-includ/
Post edited April 06, 2012 by Pheace
Posted April 06, 2012
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hedwards: I know your joking, but giving away a cheap couple extra wallpapers or avatars to everybody when they do a giveaway would probably more or less eliminate the hurt feelings. Or at least that's what I've gotten from when this came up the last few times. I don't recall anybody much complaining about Broken sword and that one included an upgraded version for everybody. That's not likely to be realistic for other games, but a gesture would probably do wonders.
Since i calmed down a bit

I have a question.

How did you lose? What did you lose?
To complain your situation must be somehow worse than it was before. How was it made worse?
Posted April 06, 2012
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spinefarm: How much free games they gave to the customers? Really for free...
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Pheace: Portal, Team Fortress, Alien Swarm (great if you haven't tried it yet, if sadly a bit shortlived).
I got Alien Breed from a summer sale event. I got Two Worlds 2 and AC: Brotherhood during the last Xmas event.

There's also a list of Free games on Steam available somewhere, not quite sure where. Peggle Extreme comes to mind, America's Army 3, ARMA II, Trackmania Nations Forever, Moonbase Alpha etc
Team Fortress is F2P not free don't mistake that ;) And that on their bigger customer base...it's nothing and if I recall right...there gifting pool got depleeted ....A lot of ppl recieved Coal & Coupons only...Do they feel screwed?

The free game list are mostly F2P games or mods...so that kinda don't count... Desura have more free stuff than Steam on that matter.

The point was that people compare the gifting gesture to simple free shit :)
Posted April 06, 2012
I think GOG team shouldn't dwell too much on the negativity, there are lots of people appreciate this; new and old customer. Maybe some people not realize to do something like this, it took time to negotiate, research and money. Fallout (and every single games on GOG catalogue) not owned by GOG, they just the publisher here. To think that they chose to do this plenty of time, although they're not required to do so, it's amazing. Plus their sister company make free DLCs, continuous support and upgrade for Witcher 1 & 2.
Posted April 06, 2012
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wormholewizards: You called them fanbois, not sure who try to troll here.
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lukaszthegreat: apparently i am trolling although i really can phantom how my comment can be seen as troll.
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Pheace: portal
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lukaszthegreat: Oh? is it for free? when did that happen?
When they released Portal 2 it was free for some time... and for nvidia users...
Posted April 06, 2012
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Pheace: Portal, Team Fortress, Alien Swarm (great if you haven't tried it yet, if sadly a bit shortlived).
I got Alien Breed from a summer sale event. I got Two Worlds 2 and AC: Brotherhood during the last Xmas event.

There's also a list of Free games on Steam available somewhere, not quite sure where. Peggle Extreme comes to mind, America's Army 3, ARMA II, Trackmania Nations Forever, Moonbase Alpha etc
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spinefarm: Team Fortress is F2P not free don't mistake that ;) And that on their bigger customer base...it's nothing and if I recall right...there gifting pool got depleeted ....A lot of ppl recieved Coal & Coupons only...Do they feel screwed?

The free game list are mostly F2P games or mods...so that kinda don't count... Desura have more free stuff than Steam on that matter.

The point was that people compare the gifting gesture to simple free shit :)
Team Fortress 2 used to be pay to play. But that was long time before those in-game store and hats era.
Posted April 06, 2012
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spinefarm: Team Fortress is F2P not free don't mistake that ;) And that on their bigger customer base...it's nothing and if I recall right...there gifting pool got depleeted ....A lot of ppl recieved Coal & Coupons only...Do they feel screwed?

The free game list are mostly F2P games or mods...so that kinda don't count... Desura have more free stuff than Steam on that matter.

The point was that people compare the gifting gesture to simple free shit :)
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wormholewizards: Team Fortress 2 used to be pay to play. But that was long time before those in-game store and hats era.
Yeah it used to be... and you still need to pay to have better ingame experience...this doesn't make it a free game... Aion is F2P...but still there are premium options on it...
Posted April 06, 2012
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hedwards: I know your joking, but giving away a cheap couple extra wallpapers or avatars to everybody when they do a giveaway would probably more or less eliminate the hurt feelings. Or at least that's what I've gotten from when this came up the last few times. I don't recall anybody much complaining about Broken sword and that one included an upgraded version for everybody. That's not likely to be realistic for other games, but a gesture would probably do wonders.
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TheEnigmaticT: Something along those lines is likely doable, and may will mitigate any upset people next time. I'll keep it in mind if we do another one of these giveaways.
I think it's the most reasonable way of handling it. I think in all likelihood if the explanation you had posted hadn't gotten buried that it would have smoothed things over a bit. Most of us didn't realize that the publishers were involved. Which does make sense, giving away or putting on deep discount the games does impact them even if it doesn't come out of their cut.
Posted April 06, 2012
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Pheace: Portal, Team Fortress, Alien Swarm (great if you haven't tried it yet, if sadly a bit shortlived).
I got Alien Breed from a summer sale event. I got Two Worlds 2 and AC: Brotherhood during the last Xmas event.

There's also a list of Free games on Steam available somewhere, not quite sure where. Peggle Extreme comes to mind, America's Army 3, ARMA II, Trackmania Nations Forever, Moonbase Alpha etc
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spinefarm: Team Fortress is F2P not free don't mistake that ;)
If you want to nitpick that's fine. Team Fortress is F2P ... yes sort of? You don't have to buy anything to play the game fully I think? But true enough, if you think hats dropping is 'a better experience' then yes, you have to pay to be able to get that.
And that on their bigger customer base...it's nothing and if I recall right...there gifting pool got depleeted ....A lot of ppl recieved Coal & Coupons only...Do they feel screwed?
Hmm, no they don't. You just said so remember? People who already had Fallout and didn't get anything shouldn't feel slighted? Why would you feel screwed if you happened to didn't get anything yet others did?

And yes, they eventually ran out in the last few days where people only got coal/coupons and Valve games. That was after like ... 12 days of giving out gifts?
The free game list are mostly F2P games or mods...so that kinda don't count... Desura have more free stuff than Steam on that matter.

The point was that people compare the gifting gesture to simple free shit :)
I tried to avoid the F2P games (apart from TF2), most those games are simply Free. And how does a developed mod not count when it was funded by Valve and released for free? (Alien Swarm).

And... you do realize that most the games that GOG gives out for free are *Freeware* games right? 'Free sh*t' as you call it? Excluding those they gave out 4, maybe 5 games?. (Broken Sword, Jagged Alliance, Empire Earth, Tex Murphy and ?)
Post edited April 06, 2012 by Pheace
Posted April 06, 2012
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hedwards: It's not so much that we're unhappy about it as the people most likely to be left out are more likely to have been big supports of the site in the first place. And it didn't really make much sense to encourage people to think twice before buying a game that they might not have time to play for 6 months.
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TheEnigmaticT: See, this puts us in a difficult place; do we give a game away that will make 90% of our users very happy, give away another game that none of our users already own (and which is really fun), and hope that the folks who didn't get the free Fallout will understand? Do we just stop negotiating these at all, because some of you will be upset no matter what?

The overlap for people who bought Broken Sword, Empire Earth, and Fallout is minuscule. Of course, almost all of the people who *do* own the whole catalog hang out here on the forums, so the population of gamers who can chime in here and say, "I've gotten nothing in the last three giveaways" is going to look unrepresentationally high. I don't have an easy way to run that comparison--I would need the devs to do direct SQL queries on a live DB, which is rather not what we need on a website that's still under a lot of load--but I'd guess that the only folks who owned all three are going to tend to be mostly the folks who own our entire catalog. We literally can't negotiate to gift them anything.

We've consistently thanked you guys with each of these three giveaways; they're all gifts to you. Whether you got two games, or three, or one, I would hope you understand that thank you, and that you'll be happy for the others who get a free game as well, even if you already have it.

Saying, "Hey, if you already own this game we'll pay for a different gift for you out of pocket" is financially not possible for us. Would you rather that no one gets a thank you than some tiny fraction of a percent of users don't end up getting something from us in thanks over the last 6 months?
You've heard of the phrase 'You can't please all the people all of the time' .....
You guys are doing a fine job, it's only a small percentage that complain. Even as someone who already had the free games before they became free, I completely support the giving away of goodies like this.

Honestly if you announced SS2 and gave it away free there would still be someone, somewhere with a complaint!

Keep up the good work GOG! and Trevor - don't let the comments of a few get you down!
Posted April 06, 2012
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Pheace: Snip
So Valve gaveaway a lot of games to many people,but not to all customers.
And GOG are trying to make more ppl happy and that is bad for you.

The % of ppl that get free Fallout/Empire Earth...etc is bigger than % of ppl recieved gifts from Valve... and you still think that GOG screwed up loyal customers?

Or GOG should giveaway a free gaming rig to everybody just to make you happy?
Post edited April 06, 2012 by spinefarm
Posted April 06, 2012
While I'm kinda bummed that I already have the first Fallout on GOG.com (since it was phrased as a gift for all users, I was thinking this was some new acquisition, like maybe Wasteland, considering its sequel's rising prominence), I would be interested in gifting it to some friends, with or without GOG.com accounts, since they're either not in a position to or are not likely to be persuaded to come to the site within the giveaway window.

However, when I try to "gift this game", a message pops up saying, "Whoops! Something went wrong, sorry :(". Is this intentional/expected, or could I spread the love to mine brethren for later redemption?
Posted April 06, 2012
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TJF588: However, when I try to "gift this game", a message pops up saying, "Whoops! Something went wrong, sorry :(". Is this intentional/expected, or could I spread the love to mine brethren for later redemption?
probably not as it is not pernament giveaway from gog. therefore it could be abused by people redeeming hundreds of codes, and then reselling them.


ask them to create an account or log back in?
Posted April 06, 2012
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spinefarm: And GOG are trying to make more ppl happy and that is bad for you.
No? You're just putting words in my mouth here. I never said anything of the sort. In fact I gave them a kudos for handing it out despite me already owning it.

Please know who you're arguing with and what you're arguing about before making comments -_-
Post edited April 06, 2012 by Pheace
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