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I was thinking about something that may help GOG to sell more games while making its users even more happy about the service. While I'm not really a type of person who's seeking any attention anywhere (rarely posting in English subforum), I was thinking my idea is good enough to ask for support here. Forum search for "birthday" keyword gave me a thought that nobody had expressing here a similar idea before (though I may be wrong, sorry if so).

The idea, while of course not being original, is to making a special, exclusive offer for GOG users on their birthdays, and allowing the friends to gift games from a selection of the user's most desired games on that person's birthday. There are couple of similar, but less outlined ideas in the community wishlist, so I took some time to elaborate on it, and hope you would consider it worthwhile your time to read and support:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/personal_birthdays_offers_for_standing_users

Please don't mind possible grammar issues, vote in if you're agree, comment and make a suggestions, thank you!
Hope no one has a birthday on a leap year ;)

I'm not against this idea but considering the number of sales we have already, I'm not really bothered either way.

If the idea is implemented though, there needs to be a way to stop users creating mutiple accounts on different days wishlisting 1 game and trying to get a better discount.

Also, this would be a sale where freebies should be avoided ;)
Post edited November 29, 2018 by IwubCheeze
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IwubCheeze: Hope no one has a birthday on a leap year ;)
Nice joke, but speaking seriously, this may be easily solved by making the offer on 28th Fubruary for such "lucky" people.
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IwubCheeze: I'm not against this idea but considering the number of sales we have already, I'm not really bothered either way.
That why I had proposed to make it:
● a selection of most desired games from the user's wishlist;
● with a slightly bigger discount of them than on usual sales (how bigger the discounts may be is up to GOG, of course)
to make this offer special. Also, the big sales are seasonal; you have about 4 or 5 of them on GOG in a year, and that's all.
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IwubCheeze: If the idea is implemented though, there needs to be a way to stop users creating mutiple accounts on different days wishlisting 1 game and trying to get a better discount.
Of course, when I was ruminating about such an idea, I was trying to propose something to prevent the abuse, as I wrote in my suggestion at CW. But there are always something to work on, so please feel free to suggest any additions to hone this idea.

But what reasons in buying games for various accounts, if you need them on one sole account that's your main library? And honestly, being DRM free, there are numerous GOG games on torrents and filesharing sites all the time, so people who would like to cheat may just download these games without any offers, discounts and payments at all. Has it ever stopped GOG from offering us a discounts on seasonal sales?
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IwubCheeze: Also, this would be a sale where freebies should be avoided ;)
Not sure what you meant here, freebies? Free games on the user's birthday? Here is suggestion for that sort of treat on CW, by the way:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/give_us_a_free_game_on_our_birthday

But GOG may use this "personal birthday offer" as additional promotional place for a titles it would desperatedly like to sell, by offering some great discounts on games like Thronebreaker and Warlock (you know what I mean :D) along with the user's most desired games.
At least this would create numerous new jobs in Poland.
What is CW? Cheese Whiz?
Hm. While as you said in the CW that neither Steam, Uplay or Origins have that kind of offer, I do think the Nintendo Eshop has something similar.

You get a discount for games they think (I suppose based on what previously bought) you might be interested in. Since 2013, no games they proposed were of my liking though :p It's nothing stellar too, a -10/-30% on full priced games.

So yeah, a bonus discount on a wishlisted game could be cool. I doubt we will see this coming though. I'm no salesman but I suppose giving discount to an already discounted article does come with some conditions regarding laws and such.
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Deadmarye: Hm. While as you said in the CW that neither Steam, Uplay or Origins have that kind of offer, I do think the Nintendo Eshop has something similar.

You get a discount for games they think (I suppose based on what previously bought) you might be interested in. Since 2013, no games they proposed were of my liking though :p It's nothing stellar too, a -10/-30% on full priced games.
I have no experience with latest generations of console stores, but if at least Nintendo is digging that idea - good to know!
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Deadmarye: So yeah, a bonus discount on a wishlisted game could be cool. I doubt we will see this coming though. I'm no salesman but I suppose giving discount to an already discounted article does come with some conditions regarding laws and such.
Well, I think that at least additional %5 to a peak discount of that game will be agreeable both for GOG and publisher. +%10 or more is much preferable, of course.
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direspirefirewire: What is CW? Cheese Whiz?
Community wishlist
Well,I know someone that would be happy with this as it tells us each year that it's birthday is here,again and again and again....Oooh,that would make it worse,just imagine all the people.......YAY! It's my birthday threads...
Knowing that many people have a birthday that clusters around certain times of the years, I feel this would work out to a complication for GOG.
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IwubCheeze: I'm not against this idea but considering the number of sales we have already, I'm not really bothered either way.
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DremPSB: That why I had proposed to make it:
● a selection of most desired games from the user's wishlist;
● with a slightly bigger discount of them than on usual sales (how bigger the discounts may be is up to GOG, of course)
to make this offer special. Also, the big sales are seasonal; you have about 4 or 5 of them on GOG in a year, and that's all.
This could be an problem as GOGs prices aren't set by GOG themselves, any promotion has to be negotiated with the publisher first. Look at the Turok games for example, they have quite a few entities with rights to the IP and they all want their cut from unit sales, hence why the games are more expensive than they should be. If GOG was the only party that had a say in the price, I'm sure they would sell it cheaper.

This is kinda what makes it impractical for GOG to comb through a users wishlist and see what titles they have and contact the publisher to try and arrange a promo around an individual user. I'm not sure how big GOGs user base is but I'm willing to bet that there are hundreds of birthdays a day. Also, there also likely to be several inactive accounts too. So I wouldn't be surprised if GOG didn't do something like this because the amount of work would be immense but the gains paltry by comparison.
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DremPSB: But what reasons in buying games for various accounts, if you need them on one sole account that's your main library? And honestly, being DRM free, there are numerous GOG games on torrents and filesharing sites all the time, so people who would like to cheat may just download these games without any offers, discounts and payments at all. Has it ever stopped GOG from offering us a discounts on seasonal sales?
Good point, I didn't consider that when making my post. It's the reason I said if GOG ever was going to do a birthday sale sort of thing, free games based on wishlist entries should be avoided because multiple accounts could be created with one wishlist entry. But like you said, it's not worth going through the hassle if the game can be pirated anyway.
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DremPSB: I was thinking about something that may help GOG to sell more games while making its users even more happy about the service. While I'm not really a type of person who's seeking any attention anywhere (rarely posting in English subforum), I was thinking my idea is good enough to ask for support here. Forum search for "birthday" keyword gave me a thought that nobody had expressing here a similar idea before (though I may be wrong, sorry if so).

The idea, while of course not being original, is to making a special, exclusive offer for GOG users on their birthdays, and allowing the friends to gift games from a selection of the user's most desired games on that person's birthday. There are couple of similar, but less outlined ideas in the community wishlist, so I took some time to elaborate on it, and hope you would consider it worthwhile your time to read and support:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/personal_birthdays_offers_for_standing_users

Please don't mind possible grammar issues, vote in if you're agree, comment and make a suggestions, thank you!
I appreciate sharing this idea with the community, I will forward it further but that's about all I can do.
Still, I see you thought about quite a few possible exploits and how to overcome them in your wishlist, impressive! :)
Hey, kuddos DremPSB ! At least this thread got attention, that's a very good start =)
Birthday ideas are always cool!

I was thinking a little about how other commercial sites who also sell stuff that aren't made by them do it too, as an addition to your ideas. Some of them tend to combine point collecting together with birthday rewards. When you sign up for these, your account does not need to have an age limit, but your birthday is fixed and you can't change that. In general, you collect points and once you hit enough, you can use them for a discount on any product sitewide. Points are of course, earned by spending money.

During birthdays, you get to collect twice the points for anything you spend within your birthday month. You can get to redeem a free gift, if you spent a certain set amount (usually a much higher value). I still think it's possible to gift free games on a user's birthday (at least on occasion), if you limit the price range on them. There can also be tiered limits, where if you want something like a $49.99 game (that isn't on discount), you will have to spend like A LOT. This rewards the most loyal users. In exchange, there could be less sales, where the point system of redemption replaces some of it.

I voted on your idea! Thanks for sharing, DremPSB!
To be honest, I don't think if it's worth it. I mean, even if GOG implements something like this (which would take time and resources they obviously can't spare at the moment), the discount wouldn't be that good. There are so many sales nowadays so sooner or later games from your wishlist would be on sale, and probably at a lower price than in case of a "birthday offer". I think GOG should focus on other things.

Additionally, it's another of "long time customers should get a special treatment/offers/rewards/whatever" topics. Like we didn't get enough free stuff from GOG and nice sales during all this time we've been their customers...
"You mean that due to an event I had no control over I won't get another discount for eleven months while anyone else can ? F**k gog*"