mastro_akq:

tinyE: Serious question WAY OT, just for my own curiosity.

I'm noticing an odd inflection in some of your post.
What part of the country are you from?

mastro_akq: I am from wherever you're looking for. This happens to be a gaming forum.

tinyE: I'm not trying to start anything. :P
It's a big country, I've always been fascinated by dialects and how they vary from state to state.
I didn't mean to upset you.

BTW I was born in Missouri but now I'm a Yooper.

mastro_akq: Nah its even more funny because why you guys try to sound so smart by touting the financial aspect of it and actually ignore the fact that Steam has about 70% of DD sales and they're in direct comp with GOG, and GOG puts itself out based on different policies from its competitor, and GOG has its own financial woes and setbacks climbing the hurdle to gain customers and traction for DRM free gaming. And you're ripping an idea that GOG already realizes and does on a smaller scale.

The only difference is ya'll just read the one line comments, can't be bothered to be nice or do any critical thinking, and want to just fit in.

Anyhoo, I'll believe it can be done without GOG paying for someones entire library through other ways. I certainly wouldn't be as ignorant as some of you to make the insults you make based on the thread criteria. You guys want to hang your hat on GOG cant pay for everyone's entire Steam library. No one is asking that as explained in the thread.

mastro_akq: All good being fascinated but that's not why you were asking.

paladin181: Seems like you're the one with reading comprehension here. I'm not even talking about it from a financial aspect any more and haven't been for a few posts. At least, that hasn't been my focus. But make yourself feel better by calling people who think your terrible idea is terrible slow, and that we want to feel smart...

I don't need to put you down to feel smart. I'm hoping to educate you, but instead you feel the need to look at all the simple arguments rushing over your head at a pace too fast for you to fathom and call those issuing them slow, and insinuating that we are too stupid to understand the genius of giving away large quantities of items for free. It's genius of course because they already offer a small sample at limited times so doing this is the same, just moar!!!11

I already told you the best solution, contact the pub/dev of the games you want codes for here and try to convince them to give you one, because ultimately, that's what GOG would be doing behind the scenes. Cut out the middle man and get it yourself. Alternately, buy them again to vote with your wallet so GOG and the pub/dev know they have another customer here. That would benefit GOG FAR more than them missing out on a ton of possible sales by giving wide swathes of games away for free.

Stop insinuating that you're smarter than others because they can't smell your genius. We smell it. It just smells like bullshit.

mastro_akq: Something they already do on a small scale. Instead of repeating how slow you guys are, maybe you should try to understand the context better. And it is a great idea, that's why the do it already with some games. DUH.

mastro_akq:

DadJoke007: No no no, I understand. It's pure genius. It's just everyone else who's slow, but we, we get it.

What makes you think I'm not sincere? How can it possibly be a bad idea to purchase free keys for anyone who owns those games on Steam? I mean, it's only like 100 people with 20 game each on Steam, am I right?

If some free samples are good, then why not just go for it and give away free samples of everything?

Cadaver747: GOG already have a GOG Connect program. It's not very successful because GOG have to negotiate each game with publishers, offer a game for sale and make a free of charge transfer available for Steam linked accounts.
And something tells me that GOG would get many games available on Steam only for GOG library, if they can reach an agreement (sign a deal). Legal aspect of view.

How is your "offer" differs? All you say (all I saw) is that Steam is bad, DRM free is good, GOG please be more successful in doing what you're doing. I'm not a smart person (obviously) but maybe you can enlighten me what exactly special (new) are you trying to say to GOG, to community.

mastro_akq: I am also trying to think of ways...

Cadaver747: So the whole point of this thread is to think how we can suggest some good business decisions to GOG authorities to make their work better? Let's forget about money, defending your or someone else's opinion. Please tell what exactly are to trying to achieve. I get that the goal is to have Steam library to be transfered to GOG accounts. I don't get the step before that.

mastro_akq: . Some how you guys are different though because you think GOG has to pay for everyone's game library for it to be possible.

mastro_akq: You said you get what the goal is. Obviously I dont have every answer and said I would try to think of a way even though I probably cannot. But it shouldn't take that long to make a reasonable post that acknowledges the content.

DadJoke007: How are you suggesting GOG should propose this to the devs/publishers? There's a reason GOG Connect only appears a few times a year.

If GOG could, they probably would.