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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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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.
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?
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.
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.
Posted April 06, 2012
Let me also offer: fanbois, trolls, and other inflammatory language isn't gonna help encourage rational discourse. Let's keep civil.
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?
Since gift codes don't expire for a long time-like a year--it would not behoove us to let you gift a free copy of the game and sit on the code forever. The error message could be more helpful, but it's intentional.
Posted April 10, 2012
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rodrolliv: Questions: when does the pre-load for Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition begin? And what's the url for it?
I think that starts tomorrow. Go to www.thewitcher.com for more; we aren't hosting the files ourselves.
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