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Loger13: Anyone can find Store page:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steam+skyrim
First link in search results.
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UhuruNUru: I meant, using Steam's search system, which is how most people find their games on Steam.
If people are looking for a game exclusively in search of Steam itself, then this is their problem. They themselves chose this path - they must suffer.

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UhuruNUru: Even so, you had to tweak the results Choosing DuckDuckGo, and inserting Steam.
DuckDuckGo is the search engine I use every day. To search for something in it, I don't need "to tweak" anything - even my browser is set up so that it shows search suggestions from DDG.
The insertion of the word "Steam" is necessary because Skyrim has been released and sold literally everywhere and on everything (except for GOG, yeah) - even on Switch. This means that clarification is required that we need the version from Steam.

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UhuruNUru: Google Searches for just Skyrim, only offer Skyrim SE, in a more typical user search.
Well, if there is a search engine that finds better than Google, then it's better to search in this search engine, right?
And the fact that Google has long shown in the search results not what you are searching for, but what they think you are looking for is not news. Plus the problem of the "search bubble".

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UhuruNUru: Even your "Steam Skyrim" search offers Skyrim SE as the top result on Google, though to be fair, Legendary is second result then.
Which only confirms my words, and refutes yours.

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UhuruNUru: Valve, and Bethesda can't control 3rd part search engines, but are clearly trying to bury the Legendary Edition where they can
Now this is true.
But this is not at all what you said initially. That is why I pointed out the erroneousness of your statement and gave a living confirmation of the opposite.
In general, all these excuses are unnecessary. You just made a statement that is not true, you just have to admit it. This was the main point: it is not at all necessary to have a direct link from the owner of this edition on Steam in order to find this game on Steam.

Of course, you can always "search" so as NOT to find what you were looking for.
But I showed that if you want to find it is possible and it is very easy.
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Shadowcat: Agreed. And for some reason the captchas have always been extra irritating and time-consuming instances.

The first few times these newsletter discounts appeared, I followed them up just to see what the offer was. The offer was never interesting enough to warrant going through that annoying procedure (not even close), so at this point I couldn't care less about these things.

In fact, my advice to anyone who values their own time is to ignore these offers unless the game in question happened to be one that you were about to purchase anyway. (And if the game is a mystery, just ignore the offer completely.)

GOG provides no end of great sales and discounts without irritating you in the process. You don't need this nonsense.
That depends on whether the person in question is bothered by having to click 4 squares with traffic lights on it...

I never really understood the captcha hate. People talk about it like it's the bane of the world, the one thing that is so horrible and bad that it is simply unbearable, draining the will to live out of them. And meanwhile I am here, clicking 4 squares in 3 seconds and off I go to view the offer.

And unlike the numbers and letters captcha, I don't think I've ever had the picture captcha not work for me.
GOG Team why yuo doesn't repair mailing functuion (I don't recieve mails with promotions, etc)??? I wroted so many times to you (including support center) but no response AT ALL! How you can do so with customer?
You do not care about your reputation and people's opinion about the GOG service and GOG / CDProjectRED company?
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Shadowcat: Agreed. And for some reason the captchas have always been extra irritating and time-consuming instances.
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idbeholdME: I never really understood the captcha hate. People talk about it like it's the bane of the world, the one thing that is so horrible and bad that it is simply unbearable, draining the will to live out of them. And meanwhile I am here, clicking 4 squares in 3 seconds and off I go to view the offer.
I guess you're fortunate in never having had the experience of giving a carefully-checked valid response, and being told "sorry, try again" about ten times in succession before it finally decides you're human. There are some questions (e.g. traffic signs) which I gave up even attempting to respond to, because it was clear that half the users were including the signposts and the other half weren't, and it was impossible to know what the system was being trained to accept as valid.

Sure, it's relatively painless when it works the way it should. Other times it can be absolutely insufferable. For some reason, for me, GOG's ones have tended towards the latter. I'm glad to hear it's not that way for everyone.
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Shadowcat: I guess you're fortunate in never having had the experience of giving a carefully-checked valid response, and being told "sorry, try again" about ten times in succession before it finally decides you're human.
It might have easily been coincidence but someone once suggested being much less careful with captchas and I haven't had the worst issues since I started doing that. Just click the most obvious squares and done, let Google tell you to click more sometimes and if so try again as quickly as you can. Maybe something to try if you haven't.

I dislike the captchas even when easy since it is still an extra step and I'd prefer email be just text in general. I don't auto-load images in email and always copy links manually and look them over to reduce the chance of falling for a phishing scam. And I use uMatrix and prefer not to let Google track every time I visit GOG and so there is an extra enable and page reload step (used to be multiple page reloads until I noticed the uMatrix recipes thing). I'd guess there is a fair amount of overlap between people who avoid tracking and people who avoid DRM. I'm glad GOG at least hasn't used the main login recaptcha for a while (that I noticed at least, it used to appear sometimes during sales) since with that Google could lock me out of my GOG account.
Post edited August 01, 2020 by joveian
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pippin15: you know... some fellow GOGer mentioned Dark Souls and I'd have to agree... For once, I'm going to ask for the "good" game instead of Skyrim or Fallout 4.
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nightcraw1er.488: Haha, that is good one, consider popping that in the joke thread! The original DS that was a painful to play as it was, to play funnily enough. Dreadful port, marrred by a shit game.
You sound desperate.
Post edited August 01, 2020 by YeOlde
I think it would be great if GOG Connect provided update notifications of games that can be redeemed.
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mikolajmaryniak: I have subscribed a long time ago and I do enjoy reading the emails from GOG. We get a lot of special discounts too!
Account seems to have not been used much in years, from poland, supports the thread and newsletters.....nope, nothing odd about this post at all. o.0 ;)

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Well, I meant what I said.
I used to subscribe.

Now I don't. Because of unneessary CAPTCHA.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/a_note_to_gog_marketing
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mikolajmaryniak: Well, I meant what I said.
Sorry if my post came out wrong.....was just trying to make a subtle "this might be a gog staffer in disguise" joke.

It is good to hear you enjoy the newsletters. :)
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mikolajmaryniak: Well, I meant what I said.
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GameRacer: Sorry if my post came out wrong.....was just trying to make a subtle "this might be a gog staffer in disguise" joke.

It is good to hear you enjoy the newsletters. :)
I don't mind the newsletter cause the extra % off on many deals is okay, the sad part is, many of them were 3d, shooters, or other game genre's i would never buy and even not if they were free.

Anyway there were a few games i did like but i already owned them : HOMM , settlers and similar all classic so no 3d engine versions and Gorky 17 one of my all time favorites only uses 3d objects but the game plays like 2d.
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Loger13: Of course, you can always "search" so as NOT to find what you were looking for.
But I showed that if you want to find it is possible and it is very easy.
Could I have said it more clearly, sure. but you got me sidetracked by a minor part of my post, and I'd rather the major point was the Focus, than how to search correctly.

That wasn't the main point of why I gave the searching through Steam, doesn't work example.
You can always find anything if you search in the right way.
I didn't state that, because it's should be obvious, and it wasn't even the point of my post.

I gave the Steam search example, to show how Bethesda Softworks tries to bury Skyrim LE, even on the very store it is currently sold, and what you had to do, on that store, to find it.

My posts main focus was NOT to show other ways you can find LE by searching better.
It was why, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 will (in my opinion), never come to GOG.
Asking GOG to "Make it so", is a waste of time, when it's Bethesda Softworks that is the only road block.
Post edited August 05, 2020 by UhuruNUru
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Loger13: Of course, you can always "search" so as NOT to find what you were looking for.
But I showed that if you want to find it is possible and it is very easy.
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UhuruNUru: Could I have said it more clearly, sure. but you got me sidetracked by a minor part of my post, and I'd rather the major point was the Focus, than how to search correctly.

That wasn't the main point of why I gave the searching through Steam, doesn't work example.
You can always find anything if you search in the right way.
I didn't state that, because it's should be obvious, and it wasn't even the point of my post.

I gave the Steam search example, to show how Bethesda Softworks tries to bury Skyrim LE, even on the very store it is currently sold, and what you had to do, on that store, to find it.

My posts main focus was NOT to show other ways you can find LE by searching better.
It was why, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 will (in my opinion), never come to GOG.
As I said earlier, you're right about this part: they are really trying to minimize sales of this version and minimize its discoverability.
I only corrected the part that is NOT true: you can find it and it is very easy.

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UhuruNUru: Asking GOG to "Make it so", is a waste of time, when it's Bethesda Softworks that is the only road block.
As with any AAA-game from a big publisher that didn't show up here. Games that many are waiting for will not appear here, not because GOG does not want to. But because the publisher does not express such a wish. And this case is no different.
It's too obvious to write this.
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Loger13: As with any AAA-game from a big publisher that didn't show up here. Games that many are waiting for will not appear here, not because GOG does not want to. But because the publisher does not express such a wish. And this case is no different.
It's too obvious to write this.
I agree, stating this obvious fact should not be needed, but the fact the original sequence of posts exists;
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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

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Dray2k: Are you me?

(Releasing Skyrim Special Edition would be even better)
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fortune_p_dawg:
Edit seems nested quotes is restricted to two, This ancient forum keeps messing it up anyway. so here's 3rd

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fortune_p_dawg: yes, but from the future.

i would be happy with either edition.
And the 1st, and 3rd are both marked as "Higly Rated", by tick box rating system, makes it abundantly clear there is a common misconception that it's GOG at fault, and in control.

So as often seems to be the case, stating what's so obvious to those that think, is required for those that never stop try to think
Post edited August 06, 2020 by UhuruNUru
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UhuruNUru: I agree, stating this obvious fact should not be needed, but the fact the original sequence of posts exists;
Fortune_p_dawg is widely known on the forum. He perfectly understands that not everything depends on GOG. And, obviously, his post was half-joking. Therefore, it also exists in such a frivolous form.