Got an email today from GMG, saying I'm a VIP and I get one of several different mystery games for free. They seemed to be having login issues for a couple hours, but I just finally got through.

I got a Steam code for Hospital Tycoon, which is pretty cool since it's one of those games I've always thought might be interesting but would probably never purchase myself.

How about the rest of ? What did you get?

Here's a list:
https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/a8mo6i/greenmangaming_holiday_sale_mystery_game_100_off/

Cool, thanks. Looking at that list, I don't think I'd be interested in any of the others. Still haven't redeemed my code yet though, just in case I decide I'd rather trade it for something else.

I'm a VIP on Greenmangaming, but I didn't get any email with a free game.

This is the link they sent me. It said to login and go to the VIP section for special deals and the freebie.

https://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/vip-deals/

Nothing, because those bastards lock away the freebies in my region.

It seems to have been all Codies crap, which they can keep.

I visited that page, but there's no freebie there. There's a field with "Limited Stock Deal! This offer ends December 24th at 5pm BST" but the field is not clickable. Maybe it's a region locked deal you've got?

The way this works/worked was that it had you click on a button that revealed a discount code personalized to your account. You could then add the "Winter Mystery Giveaway" (or whatever it was called) which was priced at $1USD/equivalent into your cart and during the checkout applying the discount code would make the price total out to $0.

Of course, with Green Man Gaming being Green Man Gaming, the site was experiencing errors during the checkout process (I myself sent it through over 12 times before realizing it finally accepted it when I looked inside my email to find the receipt with the game code in it). You'd think as long as they've been in business, they'd have figured out how to combat this problem that they've encountered on a regular basis every time they do flash-in-the-pan type giveaways like this and yet they still haven't worked it out.

Also, relevant to the thread's question - Hospital Tycoon as well. I was expecting far worse, so... uh, at least there's that silver lining.

Did they ran out of stock? I got their mail but didn't see any free game.

Thanks for the explanation. I have seen a button for a discount and have seen the "Winter Mystery Giveaway" but wasn't aware you should combine. However, when I saw the "Winter Mystery Giveaway" it was already out of stock.

there's nothing in the VIP page, what am I supposed to see there?

I mean aside from some of the discounts on the newest latest videogames. I don't see any giveaway. I followed the link from the email.

Green Man Gaming definitely should've done a more concise job on conveying how this worked. The email alone just made it seem as though there'd be a "click a button, receive a mystery game" type of deal and not something nearly as involved as unlocking/revealing a discount code and then being expected to apply it with a mystery item that retails for $1USD/equivalent.

The giveaway is done/expired by the looks of it. If it were live, you'd see something similar to the "Extra 15% Off the Holiday Sale" code area and then down below the VIP deals, there would be a mystery game deal that could be added to your cart.

I guess I was just really lucky then. Happened to login and find it right off the bat. On the bright side, and least it was only a little freebie that most wouldn't have necessarily wanted anyway, from the list I saw.