KopiUncle: I think most of us played DD on the console before. The concept of pawn rental and gifting is pretty simple. My pawn could be hired / released many times in between my hero's resting in an inn, and I'd get the sum of rift crystals across the rental transactions. There was no need to sync resting in inns per transaction.
But it isn't happening for many of us on the GoG platform.
I wouldn't necessarily take the console version as the baseline for how the game should work and would rather focus on the specific problems you're having now. The console and PC are two very different platforms and they often present very different issues. I've been trying to pinpoint the problem and ran a few tests lately with at least five different people. Resting at the inn (for both players) did trigger pawn synchronization for us and allowed us to receive gifts. If this is not solving the issue for you please let us know.
KopiUncle: Jayvenpup is the ONLY one on my friend list that has managed to get his pawn rental transaction successfully recognised through his testing of sleep sync-ing between players. I tested briefly with him and did not succeed.
Can you elaborate on how you did not succeed? Was there an error during synchronization or just nothing happened? Did you wait a bit for the gifts to arrive? Did you both rest at the inn?
KopiUncle: I did a "Top Ranked This Month" search and Jayvenpup topped the list, but of greater interest is that the total number of hits was only 12! I.e.
only 12 players in the GoG community managed to successfully complete pawn rental through some weird combination of actions / conditions that is far from simple in the past month! I'm not sure if those two issues are connected but I am monitoring the leaderboards nevertheless. As far as I am aware the search shows top 12 results so I wouldn't necessarily say only 12 players successfully completed pawn rentals. We are, of course, still investigating though.