Ok I admit that just getting a pop-up window telling me God of War is on sale was silly, considering I was logged in and I have the game in my library already.

I don't recall seeing those pop-up windows before, it came from the GOG main page and appeared to the left side of the screen, taking a big part of the screen.

It didn't increase my blood pressure and I didn't cuss, I think it was quite easy to close that extra window, but I still found it odd or funny, considering I bought the game on the release day.

So, yeah, if you want to suggest something, suggest something from my wishlish, or at least something I don't already have. And you don't have to block rest of the screen with the ad, it is ok if it is part of the normal GOG main page. I usually check that quickly if there are any interesting sales or new releases.

Indeed. I thought it was something important I would definitely want to know about, and not something I can easily see on the front page etc.

As I said earlier, it just smacks of desperation, like they are trying every wacky thing under the Sun to get a few more sales.

And that last is kind of weird, because they have turned many folk away with various things they have done or not done, and doing these wacky things just adds to the complaints list.

By my reckoning, they could make many more sales, by treating those who only want the Offline Installers, better. In other words put more focus on DRM-Free. Galaxy with its focus and promotion and automation of downloading and install, is a huge fly in the ointment. GOG send mixed messages, and none more so than the Game Preservation one, which they seem to infer is only reliant on them ... wrong ... customers are the most important aspect, spreading far and wide.

Well, in that case I'd say, it's confirmed:
if you don't want to receive any "bell ads", you have to unsubscribe from ALL notifications.

[Account] --> [Orders & settings] --> [Subscriptions] --> uncheck ALL boxes.

Ooof. Talk about swatting a fly with a hammer.

I think it's a combination of multiple factors. But mainly, it's that previously, GOG probably profited the most from releasing highly sought after oldies. As years go by, this well will only keep getting dryer and dryer. Ultimately, the fact that the majority of publishers still don't put their newer games here on release date is going to catch up to the bottom line. Most will just get the game on Steam and won't bother waiting for an uncertain release on a different store, months later. Not to mention that most people are die-hard Steam loyalists anyway.

If the fly is annoying enough...

The question is why GOG is actually forcing us to use said hammer. It would have been easy for them to prevent the complaints simply by adding a checkbox and offering a choice to us. So if GOG is basically forcing us to unsubscribe from all newsletters I will do exactly this even if it would mean that I would miss deals and GOG will miss sales. It was their decision in the first place and it is their decision if they care enough to corrrect this .... so it is up to them if they want to continue losing money from those deals I wasn't aware because of me having to unsubscribe the newsletter.

Is it still happening? I got one when they introduced it a while ago but none since then. Still haven't disabled all the subscriptions (have checkboxes 1, 4 and 5 checked).

I got one last week and one this week.

For sure.
No doubt, but for many of us that would be overkill.

While I no longer get Wishlist notification emails, I do value the odd newsletter redeem benefit. Not very often, but it does happen enough where the discount is good enough to be worthwhile.

It's also handy for free game releases, which might be only for 24 hours, which have bitten me on occasion, because while I turn up most days, it isn't necessarily within 24 hours of my last visit ... could be 26 hours or more, so all about timing, unless I get an early heads up via email.

Stop those perfect match games GOG, please. Your subscriptions and communications settings are about emails, not bells, whistles and notifications. Don't push me to uncheck the 2 options I carefully chose:

• Never miss the best deals and important announcements! Read why HERE
• Promotions and hot deals

While they've been working fine until few days ago when I got that spam. Thanks for listening us.

Not really. As years go by, more and more games become "oldies".

That's assuming there are as many good and desirable games now, as there used to be. Which I'd argue is far from being the case. One used to expect good games by default 20+ years ago. Now it's the exact opposite, where you assume the worst, until proven otherwise. In 20 years, current games will be nowhere near in the same demand compared to 20 year old games now. More and more games get released per year, yet I've never been buying fewer games than now.

And I'd argue that's bullshit.

There was always a ton of crappy games, it just feels like games used to be better because it's the good ones that stay in our memory mostly. And there's way more games made overall now, so there's probably more trash, but that's because there's just more of everything. There's still plenty of good new games. More than I can keep up with for sure. My wishlist has almost 140 titles on it, and is almost entirely made up of new games, (well, new-ish, it takes me a long time to get to them).

Of course there were always crappy games (played my fair share of them). But a comparably small number will hit a legendary status unlike in the past. There will be no Heroes III again to push sales for GOG in 25 years. No glorious Diablo 1 re release or some such.

But I guess we'll have to wait and see in a couple decades :)