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Posted December 22, 2020
‘Tis the season for gaming! With the holidays upon us, now is the perfect time to grab your favorite warm beverage (we recommend hot chocolate with extra marshmallows) and bundle up with some new games.

To make your holiday gaming even sweeter than the hot chocolate, we’ve got some amazing game collections that should (Yule)tide you over all the way into 2021! Whether you’re looking for classic titles, epic RPGs, games for you and your player 2, or just the biggest discounts available, there’s a Winter Sale collection for you.

Let’s unwrap these collections so you can find the perfect game (or games!) to enjoy.



The Mighty RPG Collection
The holidays are a great time to dive into an epic RPG adventure while you spend more time at home. This collection features titles like Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (-50%), Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (-50%), The Bard's Tale Trilogy (-50%), and lots more!

Head to the stars with STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Republic (-65%) then delve into the deepest dungeons with the Ultima 1+2+3 (-75%). If dragons are more your style, then make sure to take a look at Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition (-75%).



The Good Old Games Collection
Looking for some classics to help celebrate the season? The Good Old Games Collection is the perfect place to start! There’s plenty to love here, with games like Diablo + Hellfire (-15%), Heroes of Might and Magic (-75%), Prince of Persia (-80%), and the classic shoot-em-up, Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition (-80%).

Spend this season celebrating one of the all-time classic real-time strategy titles that helped build an empire with the Warcraft I & II Bundle (-15%). When holiday shopping has you stressed, cool your jets with the Wing Commander 1+2 (-75%)!



The Highest Discounts Collection
If the holidays have you tapped out, but you want to treat yourself with some new games to enjoy, then please set your eyes on our collection full of the biggest and best gaming discounts available!

Fantasy fans, take a moment to look at strategy title Valhalla Hills: Two-Horned Helmet Edition (-90%) and the fantastic RPG epic The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (-85%), which is also part of our The Witcher Universe Collection with the best deal for the entire series of The Witcher games.

Want to work your brain a bit? Check out Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (-85%) and Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter (-90%). For those of us that feel the need to hide away from all the holiday cheer, head to the shadows with Thief 3: Deadly Shadows (-89%) and Styx: Master of Shadows (-85%)!



Gifts to Share Together
Gaming can be a great way to spend your time, but it’s even better when you have someone to share it with! This collection features a bunch of games for those times you want to be just a bit social.

If sprawling RPGs are something you and a loved one want to dive into, then definitely check out Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition (-60%) and create the perfect co-op team! If you prefer the comfort of a dark dungeon and like the idea of teaming up with a friend to manage a dungeon and recruit monsters, then Dungeons 3 (-60%) deserves your attention.

Want to master the blade and hone your martial arts skills? Then don’t pass up on Absolver (-75%). Regardless of what you choose, gaming is a great chance to bond, so grab a friend or loved one and check out this bundle for plenty of unique gaming experiences!



The Happy Family Collection
The holidays can be a stressful time, so sometimes some cheerful, brightly colored games can be just what you need! Whether it’s creating life in SPORE Collection (-75%) or making the perfect dish in Cooking Simulator (-30%), these colorful games will surely calm your nerves.

Head to the stars in Kerbal Space Program (-75%) or do some resource gathering and light farming with the whimsical Slime Rancher (-70%).

Other titles included in this collection include River City Girls (-30%), and all the LEGO games you could ever ask for, all 75% off! Explore the wonders of the world with LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, take on the seven seas with LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, and fight injustice in LEGO Batman: The Videogame!



Female Protagonists Collection
This collection highlights some awesome women and their adventures. The featured game on this list is none other than Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition (-20%). Take on the role of Aloy in this award-winning action role-playing game. Discover your past while living in a world overrun by machines.

Other titles in this collection include Ion Fury (-40%), Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (-75%), Control Ultimate Edition (-50%), VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action (-34%), and the gorgeous action roleplaying game Transistor (-80%).



Don’t forget the Essential Bundles!
Finally, to round out all of these amazing collections on display, there are currently five essential bundles available on GOG.COM that offer additional discounts for the more games you own in each collection, or for new games you buy!

The Paradox Essential Bundle, for example, offers an additional 5% off when you own or buy 3 games and 15% off for owning or buying at least 5 titles! There’s also the Devolver Essential Bundle, as well as three Disney bundles. These bundles include the Disney Essential Bundle, a Star Wars Essential Bundle, and finally, a Lucasfilm Games Essential Bundle. For all of these, you’ll get an additional 5% more for 3 or more games, and 10% off for 5 or more games.



With hundreds of gaming deals to choose from, there’s almost certainly something here for you! Don’t know where to start? Start with our list of great games released on GOG.COM in 2020 and then let our other collections guide you towards the perfect game for your holiday season.

Happy holidays from the entire GOG team!
Posted December 22, 2020
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kohlrak: Does not the state collect duties on all purchases? Does not the state regulate what is and is not permissible for purchase and/or pleasure? Does the state not declare what content may or may not be in a game, pornography, music, movies, etc? Unless you can find something that the state has absolutely no control over, then we're back to square one.

While, yes, both the greeks and then the Romans typically did have a policy of "a house is a man's castle" from my understanding, we don't seem to have that policy in most of the world, anymore.
Irrelevant arguments, especially since question of control always remains just that, a question who will win fight for control.

There are numerous things state can't control - thoughts, desires or death for example. Including it's own inevitable death. It can influence those thing, but controlling and influencing things are two different things.
Posted December 22, 2020
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FallenHeroX1: People downvoting people asking for Devotion. What's wrong with you? Is this a gaming store or not? No need to worry about GOG selling out to EPIC, China already owns them and you are cool with that I guess. If they are ignoring thousands of their customers across the internet, what worth do you think you have with them the second something you want is stepping on the toes of China?
I believe GoG knows what they're doing, meaning they properly weighted pros & cons.

Say, tomorrow GoG refuses to stop selling games cancellation of which is requested by all major market players (Europe, East, NA). Those parties block the GoG site in their countries and GoG stops making sales. GoG goes bankrupt.

What's the point?
Posted December 23, 2020
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Themken: I am unable to fill up my wallet anymore. Good thing you are handing out games for free... Good for me but hardly good for GOG's balance sheet.
If you don't mind me asking, what happened? Are you getting transaction errors?
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Posted December 23, 2020
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kohlrak: Does not the state collect duties on all purchases? Does not the state regulate what is and is not permissible for purchase and/or pleasure? Does the state not declare what content may or may not be in a game, pornography, music, movies, etc? Unless you can find something that the state has absolutely no control over, then we're back to square one.

While, yes, both the greeks and then the Romans typically did have a policy of "a house is a man's castle" from my understanding, we don't seem to have that policy in most of the world, anymore.
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Mafwek: Irrelevant arguments, especially since question of control always remains just that, a question who will win fight for control.

There are numerous things state can't control - thoughts, desires or death for example. Including it's own inevitable death. It can influence those thing, but controlling and influencing things are two different things.
Those are perfectly relevant, especially because, well, the question, as far as relevance to the gog forums is concerned, whether or not games are political.

But, you would be right to a degree: they can't directly control those aspects, but by golly they try. They actually Tax you for dying in the US. They dp certainly try to control thoughts and desires: via control of speech and expression.You can, in theory, discover one's ideas, and then remove their presence from practical existence by means of execution (which is, indeed, the state controlling life and death, even if they can't prevent their own).

But back to your point of it mattering "who" will win the fight. Well, once again, this, in practical terms, means information warfare. This means games themselves will likely contain propaganda, and even ones that do not, will be expressed to have perceived propaganda. And let's not forget the gamergate thing, where the choice of hobby being gaming suddenly became a political statement (much to most peoples' dismay). The practical implications is that nothing is safe or sacred from politics. Therefore, the position of being apolitical is untenable. We can certainly try to get politics out of things as much as possible, but, in effect, that is also us exercising politics.
Posted December 23, 2020
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kohlrak: Those are perfectly relevant, especially because, well, the question, as far as relevance to the gog forums is concerned, whether or not games are political.

But, you would be right to a degree: they can't directly control those aspects, but by golly they try. They actually Tax you for dying in the US. They dp certainly try to control thoughts and desires: via control of speech and expression.You can, in theory, discover one's ideas, and then remove their presence from practical existence by means of execution (which is, indeed, the state controlling life and death, even if they can't prevent their own).

But back to your point of it mattering "who" will win the fight. Well, once again, this, in practical terms, means information warfare. This means games themselves will likely contain propaganda, and even ones that do not, will be expressed to have perceived propaganda. And let's not forget the gamergate thing, where the choice of hobby being gaming suddenly became a political statement (much to most peoples' dismay). The practical implications is that nothing is safe or sacred from politics. Therefore, the position of being apolitical is untenable. We can certainly try to get politics out of things as much as possible, but, in effect, that is also us exercising politics.
Speech and expression are not thoughts and desires. As was said by Kierkegaard I believe, many fight for freedom of speech, instead of using their freedom to think.

That everything can be perceived as a political statement (probably by retarded extroverts who can't imagine living alone for 2 seconds in their lives) doesn't mean everything was intended as political statement, or that it is political statement. Politics boils down to two or more groups of monkeys fighting over which type of bananas should be eaten and how will their group get the most bananas. And I don't want any bananas, nor am I a monkey (to say nothing of belonging to a group). Now that is a statement about politics, not a political statement.
And I am going to ask you very nicely, how is the US government plaining to tax me for dying, when: 1) I am not a US citizen; 2) I will not have any children or (hopefully) close family living with me when I die; 3) won't own anything meaningful to tax?
Posted December 23, 2020
I believe Themken is like me and has google.com (specifically pay.google.com) blocked. This prevents the debit/credit card info form from opening during checkout. So anyone who does this is effectively barred from making debit/credit card purchases from gog now. See the thread below for some discussion.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/google_pay_is_now_gogs_payment_processor

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Themken: I am unable to fill up my wallet anymore. Good thing you are handing out games for free... Good for me but hardly good for GOG's balance sheet.
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gog2002x: If you don't mind me asking, what happened? Are you getting transaction errors?
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Post edited December 23, 2020 by gogdaisuki
Posted December 23, 2020
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kohlrak: Those are perfectly relevant, especially because, well, the question, as far as relevance to the gog forums is concerned, whether or not games are political.

But, you would be right to a degree: they can't directly control those aspects, but by golly they try. They actually Tax you for dying in the US. They dp certainly try to control thoughts and desires: via control of speech and expression.You can, in theory, discover one's ideas, and then remove their presence from practical existence by means of execution (which is, indeed, the state controlling life and death, even if they can't prevent their own).

But back to your point of it mattering "who" will win the fight. Well, once again, this, in practical terms, means information warfare. This means games themselves will likely contain propaganda, and even ones that do not, will be expressed to have perceived propaganda. And let's not forget the gamergate thing, where the choice of hobby being gaming suddenly became a political statement (much to most peoples' dismay). The practical implications is that nothing is safe or sacred from politics. Therefore, the position of being apolitical is untenable. We can certainly try to get politics out of things as much as possible, but, in effect, that is also us exercising politics.
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Mafwek: Speech and expression are not thoughts and desires. As was said by Kierkegaard I believe, many fight for freedom of speech, instead of using their freedom to think.
Most, at some point, require a degree of instruction. Passing on this instruction to offspring, or others, requires this ability to speak.
That everything can be perceived as a political statement (probably by retarded extroverts who can't imagine living alone for 2 seconds in their lives) doesn't mean everything was intended as political statement, or that it is political statement. Politics boils down to two or more groups of monkeys fighting over which type of bananas should be eaten and how will their group get the most bananas. And I don't want any bananas, nor am I a monkey (to say nothing of belonging to a group). Now that is a statement about politics, not a political statement.
Absolutely. But it's more than just statements. These extroverts also wish to decide all manner of behaviors, as well, not strictly resource allocation. Everything from state enforced religion, through interpersonal relationships, etc. On one hand, you have the people that believe everyone must be obligated to live like they do, and on the other you have people whom are addictied to power and want to control aspects of your life that they don't have any genuine concern fore (perhaps even prohibit you from doing things they permit for themselves) just for the simple pleasure of that raw power. Both hostile discussion and seizure of governmental office allows both types of people to exercise that power that they so desire.
And I am going to ask you very nicely, how is the US government plaining to tax me for dying, when: 1) I am not a US citizen; 2) I will not have any children or (hopefully) close family living with me when I die; 3) won't own anything meaningful to tax?
I did not say that it does it to you, personally. However, for points 2 and 3, it would be unable.
Posted December 23, 2020
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gogdaisuki: I believe Themken is like me and has google.com (specifically pay.google.com) blocked. This prevents the debit/credit card info form from opening during checkout. So anyone who does this is effectively barred from making debit/credit card purchases from gog now. See the thread below for some discussion.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/google_pay_is_now_gogs_payment_processor

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gog2002x: If you don't mind me asking, what happened? Are you getting transaction errors?
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gogdaisuki:
According to the linked thread ]url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/google_pay_and_apple_pay_now_available_for_gogcom_users_01da5/page2]here[/url], there appears to be some way to dislodging google from certain types of transactions, if i'm understanding this correctly.
Posted December 23, 2020
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gogdaisuki: I believe Themken is like me and has google.com (specifically pay.google.com) blocked. This prevents the debit/credit card info form from opening during checkout. So anyone who does this is effectively barred from making debit/credit card purchases from gog now. See the thread below for some discussion.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/google_pay_is_now_gogs_payment_processor

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gog2002x: If you don't mind me asking, what happened? Are you getting transaction errors?
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gogdaisuki:
Ah ok. Thanks for the clarification.
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Posted December 23, 2020
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gog2002x:
I actually have not blocked Google actively myself but maybe they are blocked somehow. The verification process never starts and same goes for all the people in asked in real life too. GOG cannot need Google's services in order to buy games here. If they do, they are noobs (or something even worse but I doubt that). It used to work just fine.
Posted December 23, 2020
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kohlrak: Absolutely. But it's more than just statements. These extroverts also wish to decide all manner of behaviors, as well, not strictly resource allocation. Everything from state enforced religion, through interpersonal relationships, etc. On one hand, you have the people that believe everyone must be obligated to live like they do, and on the other you have people whom are addictied to power and want to control aspects of your life that they don't have any genuine concern fore (perhaps even prohibit you from doing things they permit for themselves) just for the simple pleasure of that raw power. Both hostile discussion and seizure of governmental office allows both types of people to exercise that power that they so desire.
Well then, thank the Emperor that good people over here on GOG Forum have you to warn them about these evil and dangerous men, who may be a great threat to their liberty! They should be thankful to you! I, however, will just grab popcorn and watch if these villains will truly grab the power they so desperately desire. Should be fun:D
Posted December 24, 2020
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Themken: I actually have not blocked Google actively myself but maybe they are blocked somehow. The verification process never starts and same goes for all the people in asked in real life too. GOG cannot need Google's services in order to buy games here. If they do, they are noobs (or something even worse but I doubt that). It used to work just fine.
I haven't had any recent problems on GOG, though I do reload my wallet funds well ahead of seasonal sales.

Only problem I had recently was with Google Chrome browser blocking my kindle ebook downloads on Amazon. Seems like the browser went through some updates that had tighter download resctrictions. I don't understand all the technical stuff, but thankfully I was able to manually add the site address in the security settings and download my ebooks. Unfortunately I have to do this everytime I login to download since I clear all browsing data in chrome on exit and later using Norton Utilties.

I know the Amazon rep tried to have me switch to another browser like Firefox, but I'm too stuck in my ways to change things too easily.

This probably won't help much since I'm no expert, but I'll repeat some things the CSRs keep telling me. Try a different brower (if you're comfortable with that stuff or check to see if any updates have changed your settings that affect payment methods (in my case downloads). Worth a shot maybe.
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Posted December 24, 2020
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gog2002x:
Now I shot the computer and nothing is working anymore :-(
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