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Posted July 29, 2020
Exclusive discounts, giveaways, fun & games - these are only a few of the cool benefits you gain from subscribing to GOG.COM’s newsletter. Check out how you can jump aboard our DRM-free ship and see the top reasons why you should do so right now.



1) You’ll receive great exclusive offers
While scrolling through GOG.COM social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter, you’ve probably come across posts about awesome deals dedicated to newsletter subscribers. Well, it’s true, newsletter subscribers occasionally receive special deals, or even a free gift at the very beginning. For example, the cult-classic RPG The Witcher: Enhanced Edition can be added to their library. That’s not all, subscribers get historically high discounts on many great games, like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Obsidian Edition. Also, they take part in cool cross-store promotions, including ones held alongside Displate, CD PROJEKT RED GEAR, Dodo, and Paypal.



2) You’ll get notifications about hot deals and giveaways
It’s not necessary to follow our site 24/7 to stay up to date. Our newsletter subscribers always get updates about the best deals available on GOG.COM. Weekly Sales, Special Sales - they’re all there along with news about a sale’s theme and how to get the highest discounts. Thanks to the special notifications, you’ll never miss hot giveaways on games like Hitman: Absolution, or free stuff, such as the Cyberpunk 2077 Goodies Collection. Finally, we’ll let you know every time a new title comes to our collection of free games.



3) New releases and announcements won’t pass you by
Want to keep track of interesting games that are coming soon to GOG.COM? The newsletter will help with that. Info about fresh releases and mind-blowing announcements will always land in your email account. Also, if there’s a title you are looking forward to playing, just add it to your Wishlist! It’s a really cool and convenient way to gather all the games you'd like to play in one place.



4) It’s so simple!
All you have to do to become a newsletter subscriber is visit and login to your account. After that, hover over your account name at the top, and go to the “Privacy & settings” section. Switch to the “Subscriptions” page on the left and click on the checkboxes to subscribe.</span> That’s it! You’ll now receive newsletters to the email address you have shared with us during the registration process on GOG.COM. Sounds simple, right? If you have any issues, like not receiving a newsletter after an email address change, our ever-reliant [url=https://support.gog.com]support team will be there to help you.



5) It’s simply fun!
From time to time, we’ll host special games for our subscribers - comparing images to see the differences between them, “wanted” posters, graphic riddles, and even horoscopes - all to make checking out our newsletter a fun experience for you. Behind every such game, there’s a surprise, a hidden discount, or a free goodie that will definitely make you want to keep checking your email for another newsletter from us!

There you have it, 5 important reasons to subscribe to the newsletter on GOG.COM. Join us and enjoy hot exclusive deals along with the confidence that you will always get fresh news from our store.
Posted July 29, 2020
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Cusith: I emphatically disagree with the fun part completing the find the whatever and then having to complete a bloody captcha to find out what it is kills any type of fun.
This is pretty much what I was thinking. The captchas just make me irritated and I've no desire to feed any more of my information to Google nor help train their AI.
Posted July 29, 2020
Some good constructive criticisms.
Posted July 29, 2020
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Cusith: I emphatically disagree with the fun part completing the find the whatever and then having to complete a bloody captcha to find out what it is kills any type of fun.
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HappyPunkPotato: This is pretty much what I was thinking. The captchas just make me irritated and I've no desire to feed any more of my information to Google nor help train their AI.
While waiting for the images to load on my millionth attempt to get through I often amuse myself by thinking on the ways my clicking on things will aid the robot uprising.
Posted July 29, 2020
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GOG.com: 1) You’ll receive great exclusive offers
While scrolling through GOG.COM social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter, you’ve probably come across posts about awesome deals dedicated to newsletter subscribers. Well, it’s true, newsletter subscribers occasionally receive special deals, or even a free gift at the very beginning. For example, the cult-classic RPG The Witcher: Enhanced Edition can be added to their library. That’s not all, subscribers get historically high discounts on many great games, like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Obsidian Edition. Also, they take part in cool cross-store promotions, including ones held alongside Displate, CD PROJEKT RED GEAR, Dodo, and Paypal.
I haven't received one so far.
Posted July 29, 2020
1 - I don't think about discounts all the time, if the game is great I would gladly support it, even at the full price and I would say that Divinity: OS 2 deserves it, right. Sure, I don't have it in my account but that is because my old PC is dead now, currently I buy what current PC can run.

2 - it is just a habbit, I like to spend few minutes on the forum, and besides it is always 3 P.M. at Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays etc., it is unlikely I will miss sth.

3 - wishlist isn't bad - nice feature, though I'm still looking for a way how to mark some game i.e. to put it on blacklist, unles I have it somewhere, when there is a Sale, and when I look at the game, I constantly check sometimes the same game for which I've decided I won't buy. If there is an option to wishlist you sure can put some tag wich is opposite of it e.g. Meh would be enough so I know I have no intention of buying the game.

4 - simple as that, though for me it is easier to check the forum than checking my mail, and yet I would like it to keep it clean.

5 - I have a feeling that 2 and 3 are kinda the same, so that would be 4 reasons. _/(0o0)\_
Post edited July 29, 2020 by DrazenCro
Posted July 29, 2020
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Five reasons against subscribing:

1. More often than not it doesn't work

2. If it does work, you'll get superfluous mails.

3. The promos aren't really enticing.

4. It would be better if GOG would fix their forum, so that News don't get lost, instead of relying on a Newsletter that doesn't work either.

5. Even if you, by some weird chance, would get something you actually want, you'll be hindered by annoying Captchas. I won't support this kind of Captchas!
Posted July 29, 2020
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Dray2k: (Releasing Skyrim Special Edition would be even better)
NO! For the love of Akatosh and all the Divines, please no. Unless it's the Special Edition with the original version as an extra; wouldn't argue with that, but history says otherwise (see Doom 3 BFG).
Posted July 29, 2020
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XYCat: is the cat in charge of the newsletter?
No. Then it would be a mews-letter ;-)
Posted July 29, 2020
Not gonna lie, when I saw this, I immediately went to my email inbox hoping for something (marginally) fun. But all I got was the standard 'Items on your wishlist are now discounted', which was just one game whishlisted out of several I have going on right now.

I feel bad for being so critical to the marketing people. Let's be honest: newsletter works realy well, as most casual gamers check their emails much more often than the stores websites.

I'd say: please improve your 'news' section on the website (or revamp it) and maybe make newsletters 'less fun' and more informative?

Or maybe make the exclusive discounts worth more? (How often 5% out of 70% , for example, is gonna make people say: "oh yes, now *that's* a good deal, gonna buy it")
Posted July 29, 2020
I like the newsletters tbh. The frequency is a little annoying because there's sale every 2-3 days and that means if you have a large wishlist you get the discount list every few days. It's not the worst problem to have but I can see how folks would find that untolerable.

I do think the news section (website and emails) can be better. I liked the older gog site where news was near the top of the page. I think the emails should be less big images and few words and have a little more story on the news instead of being mostly clickthrough to the website. Maybe that's intentional but the website isn't what I'd call zippy.
Posted July 29, 2020
I have subscribed a long time ago and I do enjoy reading the emails from GOG. We get a lot of special discounts too!
Post edited July 29, 2020 by mikolajmaryniak
Posted July 29, 2020
i miss the weekly videos with theenigmatict
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erbello: Wait. Grand RPG Sale without The Witcher + Newsletter Subscription Reminder = Something really big is coming? Eg. Free Wild Hunt? ;)
i'm thinking of something baldurs gate 3 related maybe
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Posted July 29, 2020
Yeah, just no thank you! No spamming my inbox, thank you! Getting information about a great sale when there is an hour left of it is an insult or did them improve that part.

Using GOG leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths so many are quick to leave after having had a look and maybe bought something too. Fix critical missing things in that Galaxy thing (not even thinking of Linux support here), improve ways to search the shop and generally make customers want to stay customers here.
Posted July 29, 2020
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fortune_p_dawg: 5 important reasons why you should release skyrim soon:

1. you will have my love

2. i will tell everyone how cool u are

3. i will stop asking for skyrim

4. you will have my love for eternal

5. skyrim is cool
This. Why should I bother to subscribe when they can't even sell Skyrim!?

.. !!!
Posted July 29, 2020
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And, by the way, I didn't finish:
We don't need this spam about new releases. What we really need is a separate page, as simple as possible, on which there will be a simple log in the form:
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{Date - Time}: Sale X{link_to_sale} started. Will end in {Timer}.
{Date - Time}: The game Y{link_to_game} added to catalog.
{Date - Time}: The game A{link_to_game} changed: Added file(-s).
{Date - Time}: The game B{link_to_game} changed: Changed file(-s) / Changed version.
{Date - Time}: The game C{link_to_game} changed: Deleted file(-s).
{Date - Time}: The game Z{link_to_game} will be removed from the catalog after {Timer} due to the request of the publisher.
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and so on.
And nothing more.

Simple, fast, convenient and useful page with such a log.

So we can quickly and conveniently see which new games have been added, which have been updated and which sales have started (and when they will end).
Post edited July 29, 2020 by Loger13
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