Posted July 11, 2014
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Just to let people know that Curse.com have rescinded their offer of a free GOG game when you redeem their free month of Premium membership. They claim all their codes "expired". They now offer another free month in lieu of the game.
I suspect they ran out of codes (24,334 bundles sold) and looking at their analytics found not a lot of people were choosing to stay on. I know I clicked on "Do not renew subscription" immediately after redeeming my game.
So, because the only reason they would partner up with GOG is for mutual profit, if they're not seeing a return i.e. people choosing to pay actual money after the free month runs out - it renews automatically unless you click "Do not renew", then, maybe they're dumping the idea, "expiring" the codes and giving you an additional month instead in the hopes you forget to stop the subscription.
[Edit: HumbleBundle have removed their references to getting a free game as well.]
Cross-posted in Humble Weekly Sale thread, as well.
I suspect they ran out of codes (24,334 bundles sold) and looking at their analytics found not a lot of people were choosing to stay on. I know I clicked on "Do not renew subscription" immediately after redeeming my game.
So, because the only reason they would partner up with GOG is for mutual profit, if they're not seeing a return i.e. people choosing to pay actual money after the free month runs out - it renews automatically unless you click "Do not renew", then, maybe they're dumping the idea, "expiring" the codes and giving you an additional month instead in the hopes you forget to stop the subscription.
[Edit: HumbleBundle have removed their references to getting a free game as well.]
Cross-posted in Humble Weekly Sale thread, as well.
Post edited July 11, 2014 by Getcomposted