hedwards: Some people are getting multiple games, most are getting none. It looks terrible to see that kind of arbitrary giveaway going on without any sort of notice.
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Limiting it to one game per person would have probably created a lot less ill-will than hearing from people who got not just one or two games, but three.
chandra: To clarify one thing, as previously mentioned, this was limited to a select number of titles but everyone that had wishlisted them have received them.
If someone had just one title out of the selected ones in their library, they would get one game. If they had, let's say three out of these selected titles, they would get three games and so on.
We all get that, that is more or less the problem. Some people got $70 worth of games with no effort of any sort and probably many of them would never have bought the game at any price. Others who may not have wanted the games any less wind up with bupkiss because, for whatever reason, they didn't use the wishlist.
This is just the latest instance where things aren't thought through the way that they should be. Which seems to be emblematic of the post-TET era of promotion.
I get that it's not reasonable for all giveaways to go out to everybody, but the way this one was handled was particularly ill-conceived of. It's almost as if the marketing department isn't bothering to consider how any of this looks.
This particular giveaway doesn't really affect me as I still don't want any of those games. I'm very concerned by the way the whole thing was handled. It's fundamentally unfair to have a giveaway where random people just get so much when other people get to suffer for such an arbitrary decision. We really shouldn't have to place every game that we might possibly want onto our wishlist in case GOG decides to do a giveaway on that basis.
That's ridiculous and certainly doesn't inspire me to spend my hard earned money here when the more games I buy, the more likely I am to be left out of giveaways.
