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Posted April 14, 2018
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apehater: everyone should be on alert, something bad will happen. they eighter gonna make galaxy mandatory or release drm'd games or both!
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ha ha!
It's the sauce up before announcing that GOG has legal exemption when they begin crying to Steam that GOG Connect has detected User-X's Steam library consists of forty-percent Kinguin keys.
Post edited April 14, 2018 by carnival73
Posted April 14, 2018
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finkleroy: The patch fixes quite a few things. This guide explains how to fix even more bugs. It's a long enough list that I'll let you read it for yourself here: [url=https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Deadly_Premonition:_The_Director's_Cut]https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Deadly_Premonition:_The_Director's_Cut[/url]

I removed a few things from my wishlist, as well; mainly games I already "own" on Steam.
I haven't checked it out properly yet, just had a quick glance, but it seems informative.
Thanks for the link!
Posted April 14, 2018
Sounds good. I already have a decent-sized wishlist, so I probably won’t add anything to it for now.
Posted April 14, 2018
Cool! A marketing stunt but seems like a good one.
Posted April 14, 2018
They don't actually say that there will be "free games", they only say they will grant wishes for free. They could just as well mean: "We're letting your wishes come true (for free): Thousands of wishlisted games will go on sale (so you can buy them cheaply)!"

Or, they could give us one game as a freebie that's found on a few thousand users' wishlists.

Anyway, from what I gather, there will be a wishlist sale from April 16th to 23rd, and it will include games with the highest count on users' wishlists, so the more users wish for a certain game, the more likely it is to be discounted in the sale.
Post edited April 14, 2018 by Leroux
Posted April 14, 2018
No wishlist,so I miss the goodies.No big deal but love the ingrates,crying and the end of world.......Ahhhhhhh,run for the hills the skies falllllllling.And thanks Gog for your generosity.
Post edited April 14, 2018 by Tauto
Posted April 14, 2018
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finkleroy: Did you play it all the way through? It's a brilliant story.
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Breja: No way. By the 3 hour mark I thought I'll die of boredom. By the 4 hour mark I wished I actually died an hour earlier.
How did you even make it that far? For me it crashes right after the intro. I thought the GOG version would run better than the Steam version, but nope, I never even get to try the actual game before it crashes.
Posted April 14, 2018
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Breja: No way. By the 3 hour mark I thought I'll die of boredom. By the 4 hour mark I wished I actually died an hour earlier.
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Leroux: How did you even make it that far? For me it crashes right after the intro. I thought the GOG version would run better than the Steam version, but nope, I never even get to try the actual game before it crashes.
I had that exact problem. Well, I think it's the same, if you mean the "DP.exe has stopped working" thing. I've spent more time trying to get the wretched thing to work then I did playing it. To quote dr Insano "I've never worked so hard to get something this broken to function".

If you really want to try it for yourself, what eventually worked for me was uninstalling the LAV filters. For some reason.

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Leroux: They don't actually say that there will be "free games", they only say they will grant wishes for free. They could just as well mean: "We're letting your wishes come true (for free): Thousands of wishlisted games will go on sale (so you can buy them cheaply)!"

Or, they could give us one game as a freebie that's found on a few thousand users' wishlists.
True. I found the wording unclear from the start. Still, if that's the case then it will be a very badly botched PR move, since it will leave a lot of people disappointed. But honestly, a badly botched PR move would be so very GOG.
Post edited April 14, 2018 by Breja
Posted April 14, 2018
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Breja: True. I found the wording unclear from the start. Still, if that's the case then it will be a very badly botched PR move, since it will leave a lot of people disappointed. But honestly, a badly botched PR move would be so very GOG.
The problem is that people still keep buying into the hype and contributing to it, downright asking to be disappointed each time. Maybe this will be a cool event, it sounds interesting. Maybe there will be awesome goodies, or maybe not. We'll see on Monday. There will still be enough time to celebrate once the cause for celebration is clear instead of wishful thinking. ;)
Posted April 14, 2018
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wizisi2k: OK so it's a sale coming maybe. Question is: how do they define active users? Also, what game are most wishlisted?
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Sjuan: How will GOG determine who are active members?
I suppose that ACTIVE MEMBERS are the people that BUY games on GOG very often.
Posted April 14, 2018
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Sjuan: How will GOG determine who are active members?
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Digital_CHE: I suppose that ACTIVE MEMBERS are the people that BUY games on GOG very often.
I doubt it's people that buy often. Maybe it's people that buy once every few months. There's games I'd buy here if not for the fact I kickstarted and requested a Steam key. My last order for money was a mystery game in March. Before that, Febuary (around $21 in Febuary total on GOG). Febuary was when FFXV was pre-ordered on Steam. I've not seen much more for buying from GOG recently because it's nothing I want (and I got a phone screen to get repaired before September when I hand it in or I have to pay a balloon payment for the phone)
Posted April 14, 2018
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Leroux: ... I thought the GOG version would run better than the Steam version, but nope, I never even get to try the actual game before it crashes.
aside from greed, selling broken malware infested stuff is gog's big main core value since 2014.
Posted April 14, 2018
I would be curious to know what percent of users WL the same items I have.
Posted April 14, 2018
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1) I'm always skeptical of claims of free games. Reading the text of the tweet doesn't mention ANY free games. I hope people aren't setting themselves up for anger or disappointment if gog doesn't give out free games.

2) This interpretation is supported by gog saying the most wishlisted games will be super cheap. You don't offer discounts on games you're giving free. So it sounds like a sale on certain games. At least this sale is likely to include games that many will want, instead of three dollar mystery boxes.

3) The "granting thousands of wishes" made me think that they were going to fulfill something from the community wishlist... something with thousands of votes. Nice, but not thousands of free games. Think Grim Fandango finally coming here, or NOLF, or something like that (yes, I know GF is here).

Consider this wish, which is pending:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/use_time_travel_to_add_games_that_havent_been_released_yet

4) My email only mentions games on sale, no freebies or wishes. It seems odd marketing for gog to announce the gift of free games only on twitter and not even on the forum. Wouldn't the forum be the BEST place to announce a reward for forum regulars?

5) I strongly second TARFU's point about entitlement and gratitude. Gog doesn't owe us anything, nobody owes us free games, we are not entitled to anything. Be grateful for what you are given, even if you don't plan on keeping it or using it. Smile and say thank you.
Posted April 14, 2018
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HunchBluntley: It's the colon. You have to use the HTML code for unusual characters in URLs now, lest it mess up the link.
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finkleroy: Sadly, using the HTML code in the URL breaks the URL, so there's no way that link will work until and unless GOG fixes the forum software, and that's clearly never going to happen.
Actually, it works fine if you get the codes correct. ;)
- link using hex codes
- link using decimal codes
You missed the semicolon on the end of the decimal code for the colon, and the hex code for the apostrophe should just have 27 following the percent sign, rather than 2527. (To be fair, I failed to even notice the apostrophe in the URL when making my earlier reply.)
EDIT: I see the decimal code for the colon gets changed into a "real" colon after posting (it should be "[ampersand][pound]58[semicolon]"), so if you make an edit (or expect the code to work when quoting it in a reply), you'll have to replace the colon with its code again before re-posting. Curiously, this doesn't happen with the decimal code for the apostrophe (nor with either symbol's hex code, so it might be better just to use that).

ZFR's post is very helpful when trying to get a handle on this crap. (There's also some other workaround for links that has to do with placing them inside quotation marks, but I forget what circumstance that's good for.)
Of course, credit where credit's due -- none of this would be necessary if GOG had even remotely decent forum software.
Post edited April 14, 2018 by HunchBluntley
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