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General discussion (archive)GOG.com Survey: Merchandise and Special Offers(242 posts)(242 posts)
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Posted May 10, 2013
Going beyond the digital!

Recently, you showed us that you're invested in making GOG.com a better service. We appreciate your willingness to provide us with feedback, as it gives us a unique opportunity to shape our business to your liking. It's nice to have an active and supportive community in your corner, when you fight the good fight in the DRM-free revolution. Thank you! Today, we want to ask for your opinion on something completely different than content policies, online-keys, and beta-access. Some of you asked about GOG.com official merchandise on many occasions. We'd like what kind of gadgets--if any--you'd like to see in our offer.

That's not all! Some of our industry partners ask us from time to time, if GOG.com would be willing to promote their products to its users via various special offers. For example, we could offer you coupons giving you 50% discount on some gaming accessories like controllers, or keyboards. We're wondering if you're interested in an option to receive such offers from our partners. Please take a moment to answer a few questions so we know what's your opinion!

*NOTICE: The survey is now closed. Thank you for participation!*
Post edited May 10, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted May 12, 2013
I voted yes. Merchandise is OK with me. Whether I will actually buy anything or not is a maybe, depending on what is offered.

Also, I agree with what some other people have said about not wanting to see GOG get too spammy. I already get too much junk in my email.
Posted May 12, 2013
Action figures ..... bring them on!!!
I don't need t-shirts or mugs. Know enough shops were i could buy my own designed ones.
If there are merchandise products related to the games i only see the problem of shipping.
Posted May 12, 2013
While I selected "No" for whether or not I would purchase merch from GoG, that's mostly me knowing I would probably never get around to purchasing it as opposed to me not wanting to see it offered. With regards to the third-party deals, I can see it in two lights. One would be ads placed on the site. This is the internet, I don't expect any different. The other would be utilizing GoG's "news" features or user base to push the offers of third party vendors. The former I would view as a sad degredation of the GoG site. Were GoG to use my email address to offer me directly, I would see this as an affront to my online privacy and seriously consider withdrawing from GoG's user base. I wish for everyone to view deals with these devils for what they are.
Posted May 12, 2013
Accoutrements! But it should not detract from the core purpose of good old games.
Posted May 13, 2013
Because of the to expected sending, customs and tax cost anything that have to be send is no option for me to buy at GOG.
So my answear was No to both.
Posted May 13, 2013
Not interested in merchandies, not interested in special offers on hardware.

What makes the GOG brand valuable to me is a laserlike focus on presenting quality games, DRM-free.

The more you expand past that, the more you're just competing with Steam, and I'm sorry, but in that comparison Steam wins by a massive margin.

I've left other gaming brands when they diversified and thereby increased the signal-to-noise ratio of their sites.
Posted May 13, 2013
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Schnuff: Action figures ..... bring them on!!!
Indeed.
I want TET and G-Doc action figures.
Other than that, I don't care about merchandise stuff.
Posted May 13, 2013
I said maybe interested in GoG merch, but then the specific prices shown were too high, so maybe not. If GoG wants to include special offers in their weekly newsletters sure, I'm always up for coupons, but I definitely don't want more emails.
Posted May 13, 2013
GOG merchandise and opt-in notices of third party offers would be pretty neat, I think. I'd like to see a plush toy of the cute little bear on the 404 page!
Posted May 14, 2013
As a general rule, I am fine with any and all advertising being added into any service I use/pay for, provided the following are all true:

1) The exact benefit to the host be public information.
2) At least 90% of the net profits from adding the ads be passed on to the consumer directly.
3) The ads have an optional opt out, including withdrawing from any benefits from #2.

But of course, since none of these three will ever be met, I am not proud to admit that I have been deceiving you, and I never, ever agree to ads being added to any service I use.
Posted May 14, 2013
Whilst I wouldn't mind one or two pieces of reasonably priced merchandise, I always find shipping costs to be the prohibiting factor. Living outside the US, shipping often costs as much - or more than any items I want to buy off most purveyors of random crap.
Posted May 14, 2013
I voted yes, and checked all that applied when asked, because if GoG can get money from merchandising, then Im all for it. If the extra income from someone who wants physical items allows GoG to negotiate more games and more deals and content, then go for it.
I suggested bumper stickers or vinyls such as case badges. Probably the only bumper sticker that I would EVER put up.
But thinking about it now, how cool would it be (for those of us oldies that dont have to fight for space in the house by their PCs) to get promotional posters that came out with the game. I would have a SimCity poster, Fallout, and because Its still the first adventure game that I really played (Im catching up to the games I missed en route to 33) Beneath A Steel Sky
Posted May 14, 2013
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trusteft: GOG, if you do offer mugs, please please make sure you offer large ones too, like 1 pint+ capacity. Not just those lame 250ml mugs for lemmings
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G-Doc: 250ml mug offends me personally. I am G-Doc, not an ant! ;-)

As per shipping costs outside US--depending on the demand and popularity of such merchandise we can always look for partners in locations such as UK, France, Germany, and so on, that would produce the merchandise locally.
Wouldn't it be a good idea then to also ask the survey-takers what country they are from? Or are you already taking that into account?
Posted May 14, 2013
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G-Doc: 250ml mug offends me personally. I am G-Doc, not an ant! ;-)

As per shipping costs outside US--depending on the demand and popularity of such merchandise we can always look for partners in locations such as UK, France, Germany, and so on, that would produce the merchandise locally.
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MorphysLaw: Wouldn't it be a good idea then to also ask the survey-takers what country they are from? Or are you already taking that into account?
For the most part we do. For some answers the location does not record, but that's a minority.

BTW. The survey will be closing tomorrow, 9:59AM GMT.
Posted May 14, 2013
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G-Doc: As per shipping costs outside US--depending on the demand and popularity of such merchandise we can always look for partners in locations such as UK, France, Germany, and so on, that would produce the merchandise locally.
How will you know about the demand and popularity? If it's prohibitively expensive for European users to buy from a US-based shop, chances are they won't buy much from it. The only thing you can conclude from that is that they are not buying much from it. You won't know whether it is because they are not interested or because it is too expensive.

And there is no need to have a local supplier in each country. The big difference lies in whether it is shipped from within the EU or not. It doesn't have to be from the same country, although that would naturally be even better, but probably not feasible.
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