JcJet: It's funny haw these fools from GOG can't see their own market and that the only thing they achieve is that they lose the money, but gamers will actually gain by having their games for free instead.

StingingVelvet: GOG didn't do it for profit. Or at least not Russian profit.

Orkhepaj: :(
did you find a good store which respects its customers?

MaxFulvus: According to your list of games on your profile : Interstate 76, Deus Ex, Warcraft 2, Submarine Titans...
Note that you can change your mail in your settings.

rtcvb32: At purely a technical level, our 'accounts' is nothing more than a few entries in a database.

One table which says your username, personal settings, things that aren't possibly duplicated, etc.
One table specifying purchase details, sales, etc...
And finally one table that does the many-to-one which is the game(s) you own and points to your account number.
Optionally a table that points to a game and user, and says what tag(s) you wanted attached to it, or has reviews.

All in all your data is under 10k and easily deleteable but they probably have made it so SOME updates can be done. Though likely deleting rows isn't allowed as you could WAAAY too easily so databases are set up so they are read-only and only certain processes with fixed scripts can ADD to the database, or change certain key fields but can't affect it otherwise.

Then there's backups, which i'm sure happens hourly, much like journaling it takes a list of added/changes and saves that as a diff file to be appended should they have to do a restore and an update before bringing it all back up again, which means your account in theory could be deleted but later return as a ghost.

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Regardless, if you really want i would either give your account away, or just log out and never come back which is the same effect as deleting it.

JcJet: At purely technical level, it's more difficult than that :)
Because entries in database also involve the access rights. Both reading and writing. Getting these can be much difficult than change the rows and columns...

tag+: Hey JcJet,

I would invite you too to keep the account, pass it over, give it to someone else, or anything else: Creativity is the limit :)

Deleting the account: You lose access to the vgames you once paid for, you ease any future GOGs work for you (sort of speak), forget any future updates/patches/surprises, etc.

Is totally respectable you are upset and want not to know about GOG anymore, but deleting your account seems a favor to them if you run some cold analysis.

Anyway, it is your call and I apologize if my invite seems an interfere to your will.
Hope you stay safe & well and I hope to read you somewhere else on the vast digital world of vgaming. Cheers

JcJet: Thanks for the advice. Well, considering that the support will probably be silent for more than a month (waiting for the community to chill), probably I won't have the choice anyway, since it won't be wize to wait for more than a month to "forget" about it.
But as for the deletion, if this would be possible just right now, it's actually a cold-hearted decision. It's a stop-loss strategy - accept the money already lost in order to stop any other possible losses. Just forgetting about the account leaves the chance for me to return and continue losing money. As well as the account sharing unless it'll be banned in the process, since I think it still leaves the chance of recovering it when one damn day a couple of years later I'll want it.

Orkhepaj: yeah and a few laws still requires them to keep some data for a half year or more