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Posted August 07, 2020
Today we have a special treat for you - a free wallpaper artwork from the excellent artist Morano, famous for his Magic: The Gathering illustrations, can be yours. Along with it, you’ll get a chance to take part in a cool contest and win a game with a small help from your GOG GALAXY 2.0 app.

How to get all this? First, log in to GOG GALAXY 2.0 (you can install it from here, if you haven’t already). Once you’re on the “Recent” screen, click on the “Share stats” button at the top - you’ll get redirected to a page with your gaming stats and the option to download Morano’s set of wallpapers. While admiring its neat style, you can also check on this unique artist’s profile we've also published today.

OK, now that you’re looking at your gaming stats from GOG GALAXY - here comes the fun part! If you want to join our contest and win 1 out of 100 games like Blade Runner, DUSK, Dragon Age: Origins or GreedFall, just share your gaming stats using GOG GALAXY 2.0 on one of the available social media channels (FB, Twitter, VK). To qualify for our contest, the post must include a short, witty description of your gaming profile, based on the stats you share, and a hashtag #GOGALAXYstats. We promise to check all the answers and award the most creative ones with games!

Take the chance to show the world what kind of gamer you really are! The “share your stats” contest will last from 7th August 2020, 1 PM UTC, until 14th August 2020, 1 PM UTC. Terms and conditions apply. You can check them in the first comment on the forum.
Post edited August 10, 2020 by elcook
Posted August 07, 2020
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By submitting a competition entry, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions.
1. Organiser: GOG sp z o.o., ul. Jagiellońska 74, 03-301 Warsaw, Poland (referred to throughout this terms as the “Organiser”, “we”, “us” and “our”).
2. Competition Description. You may enter the competition by sharing your GOG GALAXY 2.0 gaming stats (by using "Share stats" functionality in GOG GALAXY 2.0 application) on Facebook or Twitter with #GOGALAXYstats hashtag and creatively answering the following challenge: "Describe your gaming profile based on the stats you share". This has to be an original text entry on your own Facebook or Twitter account. We will pick 100 most interesting and creative entries and reward them.
3. Prize. 100 GOG.COM games from a pool of titles like: Dragon Age Origins, Greedfall, NeverwinterNights Complete, DUSK, Stoneshard, Tropico 6, Knights & Bikes, Night in the Woods, Blade Runner, My Time at Portia. The prizes are funded and delivered by GOG sp z o.o. via a game code to redeem on GOG.COM.
4. Competition Duration and Deadline. The Competition begins on August 7th, 2020 and will end on August 14th, 2020, at 1 PM UTC inclusive (“Closing Date”). All competition entries must be received by the Organiser by the end of the Closing Date to be valid and no liability is accepted for illegible, incomplete, lost or late entries.
5. Eligibility. You must be aged 18 or over at the time of entry in order to enter this competition. No purchase necessary. You must enter the competition yourself. You must comply with the laws that apply to you in the location that you access the competition from. If any laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit you from entering the competition, you must comply with those legal restrictions or, if applicable, refrain from entering the competition.
6. Additional requirements: You promise that all of the information which you provide to us in connection with this competition shall be and shall remain complete and accurate. You promise that your entry will not contain anything (i) that is or could reasonably be viewed as harmful, harassing, defamatory, libelous, obscene or invasive of another’s privacy; or (ii) which you do not have a right to make available lawfully (including any material which infringes the rights of any other).
7. Prize conditions. Prizes are not negotiable, exchangeable, transferable, and have no cash alternative. The winner(s) will be contacted via Twitter/Facebook/GOG.COM forum instant messaging and announced on the GOG.COM Forum within one week of the Closing Date. The winner(s) will have seven (7) days to confirm whether he or she accepts the prize or any additional data that may be required for the purpose of meeting legal and tax requirements. If the winner(s) fails to contact us within that deadline or provide the required data or refuses to accept the prize, we retain the right to award such prize to another runner(s) or to refrain from awarding this particular prize. We have the right to substitute any prize for an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
8. Excluded participants and entries. Employees of the Organisers, its holding or subsidiary companies, its agents or suppliers or anyone else professionally connected with the competition, or members of their families or households. The Organiser will not admit entries which: are automatically created by a computer or bot or script or other automated technology, created in bulk, fraudulent, have been altered or forged or tampered with, made on behalf of another person, or made by hacking, cheating or deception, which are racist, xenophobic, sexist, defamatory or otherwise offensive, illegal or which generally in Organiser’s reasonable opinion are inappropriate to admit or contrary to these terms and conditions.
9. Selection of winners. The winner(s) will be selected by a panel of judges based on creativity, originality and the highest quality. The decision of the panel is final.
10. Ownership of competition entries and intellectual property rights: The Organiser does not claim any rights of ownership in your competition entry. By submitting your entry, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and irrevocable right to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format, and sub-license the competition entry and any accompanying materials for our marketing or other commercial purposes.
11. Data protection: By entering this competition, you agree that any personal information provided by you with the competition entry will be held and used by GOG sp. z o.o. based in Poland (ul. Jagiellońska 74, 03-301 Warsaw). We will use this data only for the purpose of administering this competition - i.e. contacting you, assessing your submissions, awarding and delivering prizes, and announcing the results as well as for the purposes of meeting any applicable legal or tax reporting requirements. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. Submission of personal data is voluntary, however necessary for participation in the Competition. We respect your privacy rights i.e. the right to access, correct, and delete information about you or the right to limit processing only to certain operations. You may also ask us to transfer your data or tell us you do not want us to process it at all. More details may be found in GOG.com Privacy Policy.
12. Tax: If necessary under applicable laws, the Prizes may be supplemented with cash prize equal to the tax due on the prize. In such a case, the cash prize will be deducted and paid as tax due under the applicable laws. In some cases, the winner may be obliged to pay taxes on the prize under local regulations of the country the winner is a resident of. We are not be obliged to provide guidance in this respect.
13. Limitation of liability: Insofar as is permitted by law, the Organiser, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner(s) or runner(s)-up or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by the negligence of the Organiser, its agents or distributors or that of their employees. Your statutory rights are not affected. The Organiser will NOT accept responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged, or delayed in transit for any reason or in any way.
14. Social media: You acknowledge that the competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch or YouTube. You agree to release Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube from any responsibility to you in relation to the competition.
15. General: (a) We may wish to transfer all or a part of our rights under these terms to someone else without obtaining your consent. You agree that we may do so provided that the transfer does not significantly disadvantage you. (b) If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms and conditions, the Organiser may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to exclude you from participating in the competition; (c) The Organiser reserves the right to hold void, suspend, cancel, or amend the competition where it becomes necessary to do so; and (d) These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of Poland and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Poland.
16. Questions? Please contact support@gog.com
Post edited August 07, 2020 by chandra
Posted August 08, 2020
You folks are aware that you don't need to share your stats in order to get the free wallpaper? Clicking on that button doesn't automattically share your stats.
Posted August 08, 2020
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C'mon guys. This is only a small competition. No need to get rude about it. I'm sure many of you are using social media. Besides that you can always ignore it. The games aren't that expensive, so if you don't like the competition just don't participate. It's really not the end of the world. But of course I understand people who want to protect their privacy over the Internet. It's just not the contest for you.
Posted August 09, 2020
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Sarafan: C'mon guys. This is only a small competition. No need to get rude about it. I'm sure many of you are using social media. Besides that you can always ignore it. The games aren't that expensive, so if you don't like the competition just don't participate. It's really not the end of the world. But of course I understand people who want to protect their privacy over the Internet. It's just not the contest for you.
Fair enough approach.

Here's where I stand:

I hate clients. I hate the "clicking on .exe is too hard", "your friendly corporate overlords will manage your games for you" mentality they create. I hate social media. I hate the global brainless mob they create. I hate the "no privacy, share everything, please take all my information" mentality both clients and social media create. Hell, many people don't even understand the concept of privacy anymore, so normal all this shit has become to them.

So when I see a contests that promotes all this crap, run by a store I originally joined because it was a holdout of old-school mentality counter to all this, I'm gonna bitch about it to my heart's content, and enjoy seeing others do the same.
Post edited August 09, 2020 by Breja
Posted August 09, 2020
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Sarafan: C'mon guys. This is only a small competition. No need to get rude about it. I'm sure many of you are using social media. Besides that you can always ignore it. The games aren't that expensive, so if you don't like the competition just don't participate. It's really not the end of the world. But of course I understand people who want to protect their privacy over the Internet. It's just not the contest for you.
So you don't understand (like the people in GOG who started this):
It's not about what they offered, but the very fact that they are offering it. In their relation to users.
It's as if someone came up to you on the street and offered to eat dog poop. Nobody forces you, you can just refuse and go further, but ... in itself, this offer and the attitude towards you caused you unpleasant sensations and you would not want to receive such offers.
This "event" (contest) could have been carried out much better: only by slightly reducing its effectiveness (if the result obtained can now be generally described as "efficiency"), but not causing all this wave of negativity.
Posted August 09, 2020
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I may not installing GOG Galaxy even if you open source it and remove all the trackers. Offline installer rules!
Post edited August 09, 2020 by sudo_reboot
Posted August 09, 2020
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If a lot of non-forum users view the News feed at the bottom of the front page (I assume there a ways to collect click data about this), maybe this contest is focused on them (same with the newsletter push). Obviously a contest like this wasn't going to go over well with the forum who are mostly old-timers who don't use Galaxy 2 (like me, though the contest itself doesn't really bother me).

Maybe there should be social media-specific contests and forum-specific contests.

I don't blame GOG for trying to grow (especially if they've invested a lot into Galaxy 2), as long as we keep getting DRM-free installers; if they stay stagnant and even lose market share, it will be even harder to get games here, and we already have a hard enough time even getting old "AAA" titles here for whatever reason. There may be better ways than this contest but again I'm not exactly angry over this contest. :P
Posted August 09, 2020
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I would, but you still don't have the option to anonymize our username.

I'm not linking my social media accounts with my gaming profiles via some share like this.

I've shared my Galaxy stats before, but I took a screenshot and edited out my username before posting it as a picture rather than a link.

Not everyone wants to have a unified online presence.
Post edited August 09, 2020 by Waldschatten
Posted August 09, 2020
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GOG Galaxy 2.0 SUCKS! became like a Steam for turning into social media platform and new Steam library has already turn into social media platform after they revamped library UI and also store pages too and I can't even looking their new front store it's so goddamn gross and freaking bloat with bunch of adware. Steam is basically now Social media site include additionally Video games library like Facebook is one of example

#OFFLINEINSTALLERAREAWESOME

Social media is a toxic place!
Post edited August 09, 2020 by MyLife4Night
Posted August 09, 2020
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Instead of putting out dumb shit like this, how about you give us better sub categories/sorting on your website for searching games? How about letting me buy soundtracks without having to buy the base game? How about procuring soundtracks and demos that are on other platforms? How about standing up for your users vs these developers/publishers that treat us like shit?
Post edited August 09, 2020 by Swissy88
Posted August 09, 2020
Weeee Twitter and FB, so cool linking everything to GoG client, so if you write something somewhere they don't like they can just disable your account. What a wonderful idea to push anti-freedom by gog.
If you would take your no DRM stance seriously, only my gog account would be needed to enter your giveaways.

Oh and the winners are just selected on the whim of the staff, wonderful ,no random or something standard for giveaways.
Have to make sure the winners share the same views as us, right?
Post edited August 09, 2020 by Orkhepaj
Posted August 09, 2020
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Loger13: So you don't understand (like the people in GOG who started this):
It's not about what they offered, but the very fact that they are offering it. In their relation to users.
It's as if someone came up to you on the street and offered to eat dog poop. Nobody forces you, you can just refuse and go further, but ... in itself, this offer and the attitude towards you caused you unpleasant sensations and you would not want to receive such offers.
This "event" (contest) could have been carried out much better: only by slightly reducing its effectiveness (if the result obtained can now be generally described as "efficiency"), but not causing all this wave of negativity.
Imo the problem is people(in general & in the modern age, I mean) get upset over things they should really just ignore(or react a bit "calmer" to)....like this contest.

Now I don't mean everyone shouldn't voice their opinion, but the way some expressed it is (ironically enough) similar to posts on the very social media many here say they dislike.

i.e. if we use the poop analogy, instead of seeing a "store owner"(GOG) putting "poop"(this contest) on display and calmly criticizing it to the store owner or similar, some are (imo) somewhat overreacting to it(in a style similar to social media posts).
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All that said, I 100% agree this contest wasn't the best idea.

Idea: They could've and likely should've maybe hinted at people using galaxy but opened the contest to everyone.

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tfishell: Maybe there should be social media-specific contests and forum-specific contests.
This is actually a good idea....maybe even have two contests(one for each market segment, but with different ways of implementation) with similar prizes running concurrently in such cases, so everyone gets a fair chance.
Post edited August 09, 2020 by GameRacer
Posted August 09, 2020
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Reglisse: How we can participate if we are a Linux user?
It's unfair...we are GOG users too /:
It is pretty clear you are not. You don't even have a client for Linux.
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SmashManiac: I'm starting to think there's a new bigwig of marketing at GOG that doesn't really understand its user base. These last two weeks or so have been really strange on this regard.
bigwig? probably a twitterina activist, stop hiring them they will only ruin your company
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visconteprimus: LMAO!

Nowadays, GOG understands its users as like as Alex Kurtzman believes understanding Star Trek.
Nice analogy
Post edited August 09, 2020 by Orkhepaj
Posted August 09, 2020
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My "gamer identity" is for me and me alone. Screw clients, screw social media, and screw you GOG for being completely out of touch with your userbase.
Posted August 09, 2020
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Sarafan:
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Breja: I'm gonna bitch about it to my heart's content
Your speciality.
Posted August 09, 2020
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Guys, you don't have to participate in this giveaway if you won't. Only people really shafted here are Linux users, which is shame.

Think of this as opportunity to bring more facebook and twitter gamers to GOG? Wouldn't that be fine?
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