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give us a free game on our birthday
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clayborn902 on our birthday give us a code for a free $5.99 game or if we but a game totaling more than 5.99, we get $5.99 off our full purchase.
drmsux GOG has already added free games to my library for no occasion at all. I'm not the type that feels like I'm entitled to free shit. Thank you, GOG.
Ennson What about having a special, limited time, discount. Like when first joining the site? Asking for free game would be maybe too much to ask.
RetroBaer E-Mail with congratulations and summary of games from your wishlist with actuive discounts might be an idea, but you can't just throw money at people for having an account with a birth-day-date attached to it. Maybe a minimum order value-discount would be worth considering.
LuPo09 No. Message with congratulations is all we need.
Hastur05 As neat as that would be I'm 99% sure this ain't happening.
Sorry to say.
GONGGE pls no
cath2cats@gmail.com And please,Let us Choose a game or give us a game in our wishlist
Charodiy_UA I read a lot of posts and on my opinion - best would be - to give user that Celebrates Birthday discount on 1 Game that she/he will choose.
kr0znik really?
Yrol_Denjeah Somebody please delete this moronic spamthread
CrazyEyEz24 I liked this as i thought it was a joke :D
*NOTE*
now you should gift me a game.. go on, you know you want to.
brandneet Lol.
curiocty This is a terrible idea IMO and only makes you look like an entitled ars. Not to mention this kind of system would be highly prone to abuse. You could easily get 2-3 games by cutting a few $ off of your b'day party cost. I see no reason to demand a free gift when GOG has already been doing plenty of giveaways from time to time.
>noderunner_ It would be nice for GOG to give you something for your birthday, but nobody's entitled to getting gifts and it's rather rude to demand them. Besides, GOG gives away a lot of free games already.
Slick_JMista that would be nice. a 50 per cent off voucher on existing discounted games would be the sweet spot. Greenmangmaing does that a lot.
EraztheRogue It's a pretty nice idea, but it would never work in practice no matter how many systems and guards were put in place to try and ensure it would.
There's also the... y'know... thing of running a business and the costs it would incur to GOG which prevent this kind of thing from ever logistically happening.
DOWL This would be great but also very expensive.
Still voted though.
IdeaOfEvil Get out, commie, poles don't like your ilk.
##@@##@@ Just out of curiosity, what would you give GOG as a gift on the 1st of August?
gliamonster I already feel I get plently of stuff free through GOG. Log in often and you just get lucky.
Embrigand I don't like this idea. People would abuse it by creating a bunch of false accounts. -Downvote
ZMacZ LOL..and every hacker/spammer wannabee having a zillion BD's ??..I don't see that happenin..
Andrey82 Bad idea. This could ruin business in very short time. Well, they can give some discounts to user if he registred on GOG for more than a year or two (to remove mass registring account to get new game every day), but not giving for free. But i think, that simple congrats in PM from GOG would be enough. :)
a4plz I think our community has made this a redundant wish; if you'd like an occasional free game, there are already giveaway threads in our forums offering gift codes for HUNDREDS of games in every genre. All you have to do is ask nicely <3
bno112300 only way I see this working is if everyone gets the same game, and it rotates every year.
Then, nobody would buy that game all year. Not a fan of this idea.
KeyperOS And then have wise guys creating 365 accounts to get free games everyday?
KnightW0lf A coupon would be nice enough free game that would be nice but I would leave it to gog or you could make 30 accounts so 1 month you could get 30 free games XD not that hard just might be time consuming.
Bearhug_at Bad idea and also morally wrong.
rlvampire No Vote -1, not a great idea. GOG needs to make money and they already gave out half a dozen games upon creating the account.
Resoula A coupon? Yes. A game? No.
Matruchus I think what would be possible is a one time birthday discount usable only for one month for about 15-20% of any item in the store. That kind of discount is normal in retail stores in Europe and is given as a special birthday discount. For example you get that at Obi, Spar, Voegele and countless other shops but only if you are a registered shop card user. I don't expect gog to give anything like that since as other have said they give us a lot of sales through the year.
Conrad57 I can't say a "free" game, but maybe a 5% off coupon for 1 game regularly priced at, oh let's say, $8 or less, and it must be used on your birthday. If that game is already on sale, then it's 5% off of the sale price, but the reg price must be $8 or less. Still, with all the other discounts they offer, I can't see getting this birthday thing every year--maybe only every other year or something less often.
That model aside, the games and discounts the give us really are "enough" as LillieSort and others mentioned. I liked the one objection someone gave, "LET THEM EAT." So, if we're gonna ask for a birthday thing, let's not ask for the moon.
captultramangirl why not just wish it from a friend?
edoantonioco NO
LexHollow They already give out enough free games; Fallout, Torchlight, Dungeon Keeper. Isn't that enough already?
Lillesort131 Isn't the games that they give you when you join enough? (see the following wish for my opinion on this: www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_downvote_to_wishlists_and_show_them_as_seperate_tallies)
deathmachinept Maybe more like veterans rewards or affiliated programs on their birthdays for those who have purchase X games and how old and active users accounts are.
sorrowofwind When you purchase a game on your birthday, you may random gain a game that is lower price than the one you bought. How does that sound? :p
Enebias I have a better idea: why don't they release their entire catalogue for free? This way everyone, no matter their financial conditions, could share the love for good games! (sarcasm)
Seriously, guys: why in the Nine Hells should a commercial activity gift you something for your birthday? This request is ludicrous! You're asking GOG to give away hundreds of games each day for no reason!
zerothis There's always gonna be the one curmudgeon that lives as long as GOG keeps adding games.
bartoszdymek This is a BAD idea, they already work hard enough bringing DRM free games to our hard drives, and you want them to give us free stuff?
Bob_Meh_HDR How about a percentage discount instead? Something like what akcaye just posted or maybe <$10, -50%, <$20, -25% and so on up to whatever the higher price range is etc. Idk if it would have to be limited to a set number of games. I'm sure i'm not the only person to have a xmas or bday spending spree.
akcaye I agree with this but it should be capped at 8% of what you've actually spent on GOG + 2% for every year on GOG, minus the value of the previous gifts you've gotten for your past birthdays.
First year, you've spent $16
16*.8 = max $1.28
(lets say you get a $1 game)
Second year (over 1 year on GOG), you've spent $24 more ($40 total):
[40*(.08+.02)]-1 = $3 max, let's say you get a $3 game.
Third year (over 2 years on GOG), you'e spent $20 more ($60 total):
[60*(.08+.04)]-(1+3) = $3.20 max
etc.
popperik Generally, I don't like the idea, but what about something like this: if you buy 2 $6 games, you get a 3rd one for free?
3DDotNikkiWolf To be honest, I don't agree with this idea. It's that I don't like getting free stuff (who doesn't like free stuff?), but if you could make another account with a different birthdate on it, that would be exploiting the system, if you ask me. A workaround for that, however, would be to only give out a "birthday game" to those that actually purchased a game on GOG. Another idea would be to have GOG decide on which game is given out, as a surprise gift (because that's always good, right?).
Though in your defense, I have seen Origin give me a discount coupon for my birthday one year, that entitled me to $10 off my next purchase. They didn't give me one last year, so I think they just stopped doing that now. But either way, despite EA's reputation, that was very nice of them. So a birthday discount would be something that I think would work better. GOG would still make money, and the customer would get a game for cheap, so everyone wins.
ZMacZ Does that make me sound snooty or snobby ?...
I DUN CARE !!!
They do the work that most any other people can't or won't or both..
ZMacZ In other words...LET THEM EAT !!!
(they work their butts off to give you games that would take you a lifetime to get to work for the price of a couple latte's..)
(Do you have any idea how hard it is to get patches done and solves etc ?)
((Trust me I know..I'm an old Mnemonic programmer..)
(IN some cases it's worse than a needle in a haystack..)
So..LET THEM EAT !!!
ZMacZ Oh please..it's not like the prices of a game on here aren't low enough (in most cases)..
Save a nickel a day and buy yourself 4 games each birthday..
SocialPayload I don't really think they should give out free games. But like a 50% sale or a coupon worth a few bucks would suffice by a large amount.
drnmborg Just a give us a birthday discount for one game we choose!
And lock the birthdate in settings after we the first use of the discount.
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