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Ancient-Red-Dragon: I don't think GOG should ever give away any more free games, because all that seems to accomplish is to cost GOG money, and yet it gives GOG no benefit. Just look at the 10th Anniversary when they gave away Shadow Warrior 2 for free, which was a high value game.

That sure didn't seem to help GOG grow their userbase or increase their sales at all.
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joppo: I'm sorry, but do you have any source for this information or is it being pulled out of any dark unpleasant orifices?
The overhead on digital "goods" is steep, ya know. lol
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hedwards: ...bringing folks in via free stuff isn't something that works very well. The vast majority will get the freebie and then leave or stay as beggzars looking for handouts and generally posting dribble like this thread.
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joppo: I gotta disagree, at least on the grounds that if it absolutely didn't work Gog wouldn't be doing it for all these years. Unless you have some insider knowledge of their retention statistics that no one here is privy of?
Oh yeah, I also have the personal reason that it worked for me. I bought a truckload of games in the years since, yet the game I got back then is still unplayed.
The point isn't that it worked in no cases, just that the bulk of the people who come for free games don't convert to paying customers. This is a well-established principle of business and GOG would be extremely unusual if it wasn't the case. At best you get a bunch of people coming in and viewing the site. But, the conversion rate has to be high enough to put the total cost under the total expected profit from the additional views.

That's just how businesses operate. Without access to the internal data, that's really the proper assumption, not that the promos worked. The fact that they're repeating something doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

Also bear in mind that businesses aren't perfect and they regularly drive themselves out of business by adhering to superstitions for too long. Kodak just about ran itself out of business trying to kill the digital imaging technology that it invented in order to preserve it's film business. Now they're virtually gone apart from medical imaging.
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joppo: I'm sorry, but do you have any source for this information or is it being pulled out of any dark unpleasant orifices?
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richlind33: The overhead on digital "goods" is steep, ya know. lol
Only if you license from EA :-P
Post edited May 16, 2019 by hedwards
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richlind33: The overhead on digital "goods" is steep, ya know. lol
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hedwards: Only if you license from EA :-P
The penny wise-pound foolish shall enherit the dearth -- and with any luck, I'll be there to see the look on their ugly mugs. ;p
A lot of people here have no idea of how things work in the real world.....
But once they get our of high school and college they are going to find out. Boy will they find out...
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dudalb: A lot of people here have no idea of how things work in the real world.....
Yeah, my cat has that problem.
That's why people can check out hunt4freebies.com very or three. They always list freebies, including free games that are being given away.

I haven't even played half of the games I got for free, except the ones from Gog pretty much.
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SpiritOf1972: As the heading says GOG you need more FREE Games. Epic give away a free game every 2 weeks. Im not even asking for games like The Witness and Subnautica but after older retro games like The Dig or Simon The Sorcerer. Broken Sword etc. I like graphical Point and Click Adventure titles which I know are cheep but im poor so . Just give us more free games please :)
care to explain why?

last time I checked they are still a business, not a charity. They dont owe you freebies, especially if you arent even spending money on the platform to begin with.
Post edited May 20, 2019 by Zetikla