Why? Somehow GoG is able to manage the sales and distribution of multi-gigabyte game files to users. How is processing the results of a simple poll or "click here on our own server to enter" not possible?

Additionally, the article is poorly written. It should be written with the person who knows nothing about the game in mind. I still am not sure of what it is, as I can't find an game called "Gwent" on GoG, I just know it has something to do with the Witcher.

Though I did find the whole thing weird. Yay for having a facebook account that I don't care about. Cause it has nothing personal on it. But if you don't wanna take any risk, then don't do it. Simple enough.

Before internet then? You do know that your ISP have done Datamining and is probably still doing it?

You shoud read this : https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2013/04/30/data-mining-its-not-what-customers-think/

As i said, there is a good way of doing dataminiing and theres a bad way doing it.
By the way an agenda doesnt need to be about financial gains.

I agree. People get so bent if they can't do exactly what they want. They think it is their right to have something. If you don't like it, just don't get it. Simple. But, please stop whining about it.
Especially when the whole moral high road things comes up. You know what I mean. Statements about how disappointed they are in GOG or maybe even how they will never shop here again. Sheesh!
No company is going to please you 100% of the time. Just accept that and enjoy what you do like.

I think one reason people are complaining is because alot of times
the social media feature,s gets forced on people by being intigrated in the main service later down the road.
Its fine if its optinal but not fine when you can no longer chose it away.

And its no secret that alot of companys use faceboock intigrated in their service.

Don't let them think everything is okay.

My company pleases people 100% of the time. Just not 100% of the people. Heh.

But gOg used to be in that 95-99% realm for me. With changes over the years, that number - for me, anyway - has been slowly slipping, starting maybe 4 years back.

You've been around long enough to have seen those same changes, some of which go beyond "don't buy game XYZ if you don't like it". The problem is that stuff - 3rd-party nabbing of social media info, in this case - has found its way into two programs in the past two weeks, and that feels like its going to be a regular thing. In fact, Fables confirmed as much earlier today. Just another creeping change that drops my "pleased with gOg" percentage a few more points.

But you're right - this particular case is completely optional since it's related to a single game.

It's troubling that you're lured into giving your info to these third-parties that have absolutely nothing to do with the game, and their terms allow them access to things that you would not normally give out. And that you have to go into, say, your youtube account - completely unrelated to the offering - to stop them from snagging more info off of you.

That's what's bothering people.

What is more disturbing to me than the data mining, is the complacency by the younger generation that this is normal, expected way to do business, that there is nothing that can be done about it and to just 'chill'. What can it hurt. Im from a generation that has seen just how bad things can get when people get apathetic and allow the little infringements on personal liberty get chipped away until its a monster.

Without proper and enforceable regulation data mining and the profiling packets it produces will soon and already is intruding on your everyday life. It already limits what you can see on the internet thru queries, changes prices for the same objects for different people on web pages, guides your premium payments with insurers or whether you can get loans or acceptance to schools. Job applicants are now vetted by computers who use other datamining packets to ditch your application even before a human sees it. Every country has their own regulations or lack of them but sellers of info dont care. Sexual orientation or political leanings algorithms are being sold to countries where its an executable crime. This has gotten way out of hand, I dont even think we could stop it if we tried.

just had to say this, my life is nearing its end, all you younger folk are the ones who will dictate your future and that of your children.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/242274
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/1036.abstract

so no, every time I am about to get a product I scan the user agreement notice and permissions. If they are egregious then I make complaints using the same media they wish to mine. Only with enough complaints will companies reverse policies. they are in it for the money after all. the worrisome bit are the ones that are in it for other reasons, political and social control agendas

I agree with a lot of people here. I was going to login to get a key but after seeing all the permissions i need to give this "Gleam" company, i'm going to pass.

Very disappointing that GOG needs this kind of 3rd party companies (in)famous for their privacy invasions and Spam to conduct this giveaway :P

I never play anything online. I am strictly offline.

Gwent's not for you then. I'm not sure about further down the line, but your cards are stored online and you have to sign in (not technically as your Galaxy log in is used so you're auto signed in basically) to access the single player menu option.
Maybe they'll make a fully offline version when it's fully released, but right now it doesn't like you'll be able to play it offline even for single player.

I'd rather see less and/or slower giveaways here than ones that require this nonsense. GWENT overall just doesn't seem to fit with GOG very well if what I've heard about microtransactions and being online-only are true. I can't imagine it would be getting released here at all if it wasn't made by GOG's sister company.

THat's why I said I will wait for final release. As GoG is a shop that allows offline play, I'm sure it will be coming and I'm happy to wait :)

Gotta go with the general sentiment. Having to log in through some other accounts is a no-go for me.

I cannot but totally agree with all the posts which has been posted before me. I was so perplexed that I cannot find the way how to get the Gwent without providing some other account that I was sure I have to be missing something. That I am just plain stupid that I am not able to find the way how to do it and that was the reason I ended up here in this forum.

Here I have found out that it was gog who decided to do this in this unwanted way. Hey I was really in to be a tester of this game (this is not giveaway, this is contract where I am giving gog me as a tester of their application and they will give me in return peak on what will the game look like in the future), but seeing this .... not any more.

And I will not shout something like "I will never buy anything on gog anymore" that would not be true, but in the future I will pay more attention on what I am buying here since so far I did not really had to. And that should be bad news for GoG. Loosing credit is bad for any company, even if it is not real direct finnancial impact.