Thank you. :D

My guess is that, since you have not paid for the game, the best case scenario is having the game removed from your account and being given a new code to give away (or sell if it is allowed, which I suppose it is not).

"Never underestimate stupid things in large numbers."
- Sam "serious" Stone

Yes, for the game you paid $0, so they'll refund you $0 :P

To be honest, I can empathize with where the original poster is coming from. He's bought a video card that came with a free game that he's not personally interested in. Of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, not everyone is a fan of RPGs and even if they are, The Witcher game series is not everyone's cup of tea no matter how great it is. I personally love The Witcher series and while I don't own the 3rd instalment yet, I will be looking to get it at some point in time, but every gamer out there wont necessarily be interested.

So from there, he has something he doesn't really need or want and is simply trying to do something useful with it, and there's nothing wrong with that either. Just exploring his options, and the possibility of getting a refund was certainly something to investigate if he didn't know if it was possible either way. Of course when it comes to free games bundled with hardware for free they're more or less take it or leave it but it's yours for keeps either way, but everyone doesn't necessarily know that, and there is no harm in someone asking others if it is possible. I also don't see there any harm in someone having the desire to exchange something they have that they're not really interested in with something they might actually want. Whether it is possible or not easily is a completely different question but you don't know until you ask, and that's all I see happening here is someone just asking for information. It's not a demand, nor is he being hostile, it's just a query for information.

We do have a generally great community here, but surely as a whole we can provide information/pointers to people in a kinder manner without making negative assumptions about their personal intentions and getting on the defensive. To the original poster though, as moonshineshadow suggested above you may be able to trade your Witcher 3 game code for another game that you're interested in, or even for a few games depending on what others might be willing to trade for. The trading forums exchange games on various online gaming distributions including GOG.com, Steam, Origin, Desura, Uplay fairly regularly, with Steam codes making up the vast majority. If I might offer a word of advice it would be to maintain your already polite manner even should someone criticize you or get defensive or offensive about what you're trying to do. Sometimes newcomers can be targets of bullying if they say things others consider outside of the norm, but don't let that discourage you.

I for one would rather welcome you to our community than judge you or your intentions in a negative manner simply for not being interested in a video game and seeking out answers to your options. Perhaps we can assimilate you into our GOG.com DRM-free gaming experience in the end. :)

Best of luck finding a new home for your game or someone to trade with.

Take care.

Please ask NVidia or CDP about this as it's probably solely at their discretion.

GOG has a refund policy but afaik it only applies to buyments through this store here. The GTX 980 + Witcher 3 gift is a special case.

My guess is that you cannot get a refund because it was a gift (promoting both the graphics card and the game) and therefore the true value is much below selling price currently. Also they would loose money and under these circumstances they probably would not have done the promotion.

So, no, probably you cannot get your gifted Witcher 3 copy refunded, neither here nor on Steam. If Valve would make a similar promotion they too probably would not make refunds on the gift.

But maybe you can gift it to someone and then someone can gift the a game or multiple games to you that is more to your liking. That is fully allowed to do. :)

I agree, that's why I asked whether he has considered selling the code, if he has no interest to the game (no matter on which store)?

No "refund" for a freebie is needed, if you can just as well sell the freebie code.

(Or is the selling of such promo codes somehow illegal? I presume not, but the heck I know for sure.)

Hey, I did offer him a refund of my own pocket! How much nicer can I get?

Oh I know, I'll throw in a Deus Ex copy with those 0€! How's that for nice?

Yep, it's the Targaryen Sigil from A Song of Ice and Fire. specifically the cover of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Ice_%26_Fire

You should probably post that question in the steam forums. To help keep their level at the quality they had been, before people started leaving that and coming in here!

Unauthorized reselling of game codes on most stores is against their terms of service I believe but that is not "illegal" as in breaking some law. Worst case that can happen is that the distributor recognizes an unauthorized transaction and invalidates the game code, however that usually only happens when some organized individual or group are buying up or otherwise obtaining dozens/hundreds/thousands of codes for games and reselling them in unauthorized reseller storefronts and the distributor decides to crack down on it and does an investigation and invalidates some or all of the resold game codes. This happened not long ago with Origin codes, however it caused gamers that had bought the games unknowingly from an unauthorized reseller and had been playing the game to lose their game and get violently upset with Origin who subsequently re-enabled the games in the affected peoples accounts but kept the codes for inactivated or unplayed games as invalid.

I'm not sure whether it violates GOG or Steam's terms of service to re-sell game codes either bought or received as a gift or not, but they most likely frown upon it done on any large scale but probably don't hold much stink about it for individual people trading/selling a one-off game without some darker profit motive.

The easiest thing to do of course is to trade the games, which is a practice which lots of people do openly both on GOG.com and Steam for various stores game codes and I've never heard of anyone violating any terms of service for doing so or having any repercussions unless of course they were doing it en-mass with lots of codes for a particular game at once trying to "game the system" so to speak. As one example of this, consider the Fallout series freebie giveaway a few years ago that GOG.com did which some people took advantage of for personal profit that ultimately resulted in GOG.com invalidating all issued but unredeemed Fallout series game codes shortly after to prevent the abuse of the system.

So I don't think any of these companies really are concerned about individual people buying/selling/trading individual game codes with each other in a responsible manner whether or not it might technically violate some term of service agreement, but rather I think such terms are intended only to have a way to combat those that wish to abuse the system for personal wide scale profiteering.

In any case, it almost certainly isn't against the law but that is up to the individual to research the law in their own country as it could vary and none of us presumably are lawyers with global law knowledge. :)

Yes, and when I read your post I had a good chuckle and a snot bubble just about came out of my nose. :)