hedwards: … Using wishlists as the basis for a giveaway is hardly transparent. [1]
… As far as 3 people go, I hardly doubt that. There's a small number of people that are commenting on it. … [3]
… the retail value of those 3 games, as previously mentioned is around $70. If you can't see the difference between missing out on a giveaway that's worth $20 and one that's worth $70, then you're a complete moron.
Ignoring that, had they limited it to just one game, then they could have had a real giveaway rather than this secretive, we'll shower a certain number of people with a large present and leave everybody else out. I take it you come from a place where you don't have to bring enough candy for the entire class, it's fine just handing it out to a few friends. … [2]
The whole thing was botched and the more of these ignorant posts I see, the less interested I am in giving GOG any money this Christmas. …
[1] A list to keep track of items one might purchase, daringly labelled a
wishlist, is somehow voodoo when deciding who to give a game to that might derive the most benefit from it?
Greywolf234: It seems that whatever GOG does, even something as generous and cool as giving away free games someone will complain.
hedwards: This is neither particularly generous nor cool. There's plenty of ways they could have given away the games that wouldn't result in this kind of complaining. Why should some people randomly get $70 worth of games, others $20 and everybody else none? If they were being generous, there's plenty of ways they could have spread it around more or included more people without it costing them any extra money. [2]…
[2] Do you have a problem with lotteries, too? Those undeserving bastards are getting MILLIONS of dollars, and I bet they spend it on selfish stuff, too! (Unlike me, who would give it all to charity because I'm that good.)
Because everything you just complained about is the exact way that a lottery works. In Australia (but, interestingly, not in the UK) one may purchase a "system" ticket, whereby, for a multiple of a single ticket price —but less than the cost of purchasing the equivalent number of individual tickets— a ticket will succeed if the draw includes any six numbers of the seven, eight, nine or ten indicated on the ticket. Is this unfair? It's a lottery!
I would argue that the system ticket allows those game to increase their bet, for better odds, but higher costs.
Here, Gog as a service provider, is indicating with a small reward ($70, really? I wouldn't pay that much for these games, but you might, I suppose; the free game I received I would not have paid more than $5 for—if that) to encourage and remind their customers about a useful feature.
So you missed out on this one.
So did everyone who didn't think to add a Telltale game to their wishlist. You might as well complain that the giveaway didn't include
Fallout 76, or some such.
You are complaining because you want (the opportunity) to take EVERY game that Gog may decide to offer to people. Perhaps you might like to examine your desires? Why do you need a game that you didn't even think enough of to add to your wishlist?
[3] Yes, your role as the interlocutor of the dispossessed has been noted. I was merely stating that, contrary to your assertion,
pro et contra, the balance sheet is decidedly in Gog's favour, and, further, this is to be expected and is normal.
Screamshield: I don't have a wish list. I never understood the purpose of it. I still don't understand it. The one game i would like to have right now is Cyberpunk 2077 but it is still in development and once it is out of development i will get it as soon as possible so there would be no reason to use the wish list.
And are you disappointed that you didn't receive a free game that you didn't want? Exactly.
OldOldGamer: … I don't even give a damn about the games.
Is just how poorly they approach the business,
their business, that is crap.
You are disappointed that Gog didn't give you a game that you didn't want because they should give you a game that you do want, even though they have no way to know what such a game would be, since you do not use the wishlist. That about cover it?
hedwards: …Others who may not have wanted the games any less wind up with bupkiss because, for whatever reason, they didn't use the wishlist.
…
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.
What? How many games do you want to play? Seriously?
Even though I would never tell you how to use your wishlist, I find it amusing that you wish to win every free game giveaway.
A word of advice: a neurosis like this ludic aboulia is incurable; avarice builds on itself — that black hole yearns but is never satisfied. You have stated (
my emphasis, above) clearly that you didn't even want the game, AND that you don't use the wishlist in the perfectly reasonable manner that is provided. Yet you are also disconsolate because those who did wish for the game and got it are somehow "unfairly" rewarded. In a lottery.
To be clear: you are upset because you has identified a specific, rare instance where someone might not benefit; where a person might like a game but not have indicated such with the mechanism provided (as it is used across the Interwebs) is patently narcissistic. You have further claimed this as your prerogative, taking offence that Gog might actually prefer you to use the wishlist as, y'know, a list of things you wish you could buy.
I suggest that you might like to consider the price for your prerogative to use the wishlist in a manner not designed is, unfortunately for you, costing you free games that (even though you don't want them) you might get. Choices have consequences, otherwise they aren't choices.
trusteft: … OH THE HUMANITY! I DIDN'T GET ALL THE FREE GAMES I COULD!!!! …
Exactly.
wpegg: … You're sounding incredibly entitled here. You don't "deserve" anything, no matter how far you feel your "suffering" has been pushed.
What we have here is a microcosmic example of Postmodern politics that is a millennial plague: confected injury (not receiving a gratuity
that was not wanted), derived
ex post facto by deconstructing the event (a giveaway to those who indicated they might like it).
The plaintiffs have contrived this identity-specific angst through the prism of disaffection; of course some people didn't receive this targeted gift (hence they are identified by this circumstance): they didn't indicate they wanted it. That's life working as designed. They are trying to reverse-engineer the lottery to get the winning numbers. Grievance because there aren't legitimate ways for to game the system.
Good luck with that. :)
Breja: I have "decent, reasonable and civil forum community" on my wishlist, and I didn't get one. I'm really disappointed.
It has to be realistic.You are breaking a fundamental assumption, like
Euclid's fifth postulate (y'know, the classical
pons asinorum?).
Breja: … I mean, if you're going to go with ridiculous, dramatic hyperbole you can at least put some heart into it.…
Delicious.
PixelBoy: … A business doing random things which shake long-term customers' faith in their service and devalue their own products is not something you would celebrate with a party hat. …
But at least you'll be able to say "I told you so!", right? Feeling underappreciated? Gog marketing department not returning your emails? Don't despair, they deserve their fate!
edit: nearly, dammit. One missed closing parenthesis and the keyboard buffer stole my letter that would have correctly spelt the word, I swear!