Life's a gamble.

If you really don't like it you can ask to trade with someone. You can also look at it this way: you dropped four dollars for something that costs twenty. I'd say that's a pretty good deal.

Sure, no problem. I don't know how to do it offhand, though; maybe I'll have to contact support and have them make it giftable or something. If anyone else knows, great, because I'm drinking beer tonight and I don't want to do too much thinking. :-)

thanks man, also be careful on the drinking
and yeah when ur sober up u can ask GOG to turn it into a giftable copy

Totally understand people who are frustrated by this, but I ultimately concur with a lot of the early posts in this thread. GoG ain't the bad guys here. It's not loot boxes. It's not gambling.

I've opened 3 stars so far and got 3 good games. I won't play one of them (Not into horror, maybe I'll ask for GoG to turn it into a gift copy so I can give it to someone), but the other two are good games that I'm very happy with - and ones I never would have played it if weren't for the promo.

One game was Holy Potatoes: A Weapon Shop (Would have preferred the space one, but oh well) and the other was Telltale's Monkey Island game.

The horror game was Layers of Fear, a good game but not one I'll actually play sadly - don't have the balls for horror games.

So, in the end, I vote "YES PLEASE" to the whole promo. It's a fantastic, consumer-friendly idea, and I want to see more of it.

The term "Lootbox" has a very different connotation. If there were games on GOG that you couldn't puchase directly and had to go through the "Stars" gambling system to get - then yes, these would be Lootboxes.

And that's why I avoid this - because AFAIK GOG doesn't use its Gog Connect system avoid games you already own on Steam. Or... does it?

Then again, I also have a multi-thousand game backlog, so even if I was guaranteed to game a game I don't own, it wouldn't be smart to play.

You can trade it for another game or stop gambling...

It is plain gambling.

By the way, cool avatar, bro.

Thanks for your reply. I had assumed that like 'gambling' once you pays yer money, it's gone... it never occurred to me to ask for a refund... but maybe I will....

Cheers

Sent request; I'll let you know.

kk

Why not culture yourself and learn to enjoy something different? There's no reason to stick with the same things forever. You only grow when you try new experiences. Maybe this was the time the universe wanted to tell you how much you would enjoy them if you gave them a decent chance?

Never tried that, but assumed one would get a key and could decide to either unlock the win or trade it away. Now I'm glad I never tried it.

You could do that in previous editions of this kind of "mystery sale". You could either buy a star/piñata/whatever for yourself, or directly as a gift so you could trade it/give it away as you saw fit.

The only downside of this option is that you no longer were guaranteed a game you didn't already own, so you could get absolutely anything from the available pool.