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Today we have a special treat for you - a free wallpaper artwork from the excellent artist Morano, famous for his Magic: The Gathering illustrations, can be yours. Along with it, you’ll get a chance to take part in a cool contest and win a game with a small help from your GOG GALAXY 2.0 app.

How to get all this? First, log in to GOG GALAXY 2.0 (you can install it from here, if you haven’t already). Once you’re on the “Recent” screen, click on the “Share stats” button at the top - you’ll get redirected to a page with your gaming stats and the option to download Morano’s set of wallpapers. While admiring its neat style, you can also check on this unique artist’s profile we've also published today.

OK, now that you’re looking at your gaming stats from GOG GALAXY - here comes the fun part! If you want to join our contest and win 1 out of 100 games like Blade Runner, DUSK, Dragon Age: Origins or GreedFall, just share your gaming stats using GOG GALAXY 2.0 on one of the available social media channels (FB, Twitter, VK). To qualify for our contest, the post must include a short, witty description of your gaming profile, based on the stats you share, and a hashtag #GOGALAXYstats. We promise to check all the answers and award the most creative ones with games!

Take the chance to show the world what kind of gamer you really are! The “share your stats” contest will last from 7th August 2020, 1 PM UTC, until 14th August 2020, 1 PM UTC. Terms and conditions apply. You can check them in the first comment on the forum.
Post edited August 10, 2020 by elcook
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By submitting a competition entry, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions.
1. Organiser: GOG sp z o.o., ul. Jagiellońska 74, 03-301 Warsaw, Poland (referred to throughout this terms as the “Organiser”, “we”, “us” and “our”).
2. Competition Description. You may enter the competition by sharing your GOG GALAXY 2.0 gaming stats (by using "Share stats" functionality in GOG GALAXY 2.0 application) on Facebook or Twitter with #GOGALAXYstats hashtag and creatively answering the following challenge: "Describe your gaming profile based on the stats you share". This has to be an original text entry on your own Facebook or Twitter account. We will pick 100 most interesting and creative entries and reward them.
3. Prize. 100 GOG.COM games from a pool of titles like: Dragon Age Origins, Greedfall, NeverwinterNights Complete, DUSK, Stoneshard, Tropico 6, Knights & Bikes, Night in the Woods, Blade Runner, My Time at Portia. The prizes are funded and delivered by GOG sp z o.o. via a game code to redeem on GOG.COM.
4. Competition Duration and Deadline. The Competition begins on August 7th, 2020 and will end on August 14th, 2020, at 1 PM UTC inclusive (“Closing Date”). All competition entries must be received by the Organiser by the end of the Closing Date to be valid and no liability is accepted for illegible, incomplete, lost or late entries.
5. Eligibility. You must be aged 18 or over at the time of entry in order to enter this competition. No purchase necessary. You must enter the competition yourself. You must comply with the laws that apply to you in the location that you access the competition from. If any laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit you from entering the competition, you must comply with those legal restrictions or, if applicable, refrain from entering the competition.
6. Additional requirements: You promise that all of the information which you provide to us in connection with this competition shall be and shall remain complete and accurate. You promise that your entry will not contain anything (i) that is or could reasonably be viewed as harmful, harassing, defamatory, libelous, obscene or invasive of another’s privacy; or (ii) which you do not have a right to make available lawfully (including any material which infringes the rights of any other).
7. Prize conditions. Prizes are not negotiable, exchangeable, transferable, and have no cash alternative. The winner(s) will be contacted via Twitter/Facebook/GOG.COM forum instant messaging and announced on the GOG.COM Forum within one week of the Closing Date. The winner(s) will have seven (7) days to confirm whether he or she accepts the prize or any additional data that may be required for the purpose of meeting legal and tax requirements. If the winner(s) fails to contact us within that deadline or provide the required data or refuses to accept the prize, we retain the right to award such prize to another runner(s) or to refrain from awarding this particular prize. We have the right to substitute any prize for an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
8. Excluded participants and entries. Employees of the Organisers, its holding or subsidiary companies, its agents or suppliers or anyone else professionally connected with the competition, or members of their families or households. The Organiser will not admit entries which: are automatically created by a computer or bot or script or other automated technology, created in bulk, fraudulent, have been altered or forged or tampered with, made on behalf of another person, or made by hacking, cheating or deception, which are racist, xenophobic, sexist, defamatory or otherwise offensive, illegal or which generally in Organiser’s reasonable opinion are inappropriate to admit or contrary to these terms and conditions.
9. Selection of winners. The winner(s) will be selected by a panel of judges based on creativity, originality and the highest quality. The decision of the panel is final.
10. Ownership of competition entries and intellectual property rights: The Organiser does not claim any rights of ownership in your competition entry. By submitting your entry, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and irrevocable right to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format, and sub-license the competition entry and any accompanying materials for our marketing or other commercial purposes.
11. Data protection: By entering this competition, you agree that any personal information provided by you with the competition entry will be held and used by GOG sp. z o.o. based in Poland (ul. Jagiellońska 74, 03-301 Warsaw). We will use this data only for the purpose of administering this competition - i.e. contacting you, assessing your submissions, awarding and delivering prizes, and announcing the results as well as for the purposes of meeting any applicable legal or tax reporting requirements. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. Submission of personal data is voluntary, however necessary for participation in the Competition. We respect your privacy rights i.e. the right to access, correct, and delete information about you or the right to limit processing only to certain operations. You may also ask us to transfer your data or tell us you do not want us to process it at all. More details may be found in GOG.com Privacy Policy.
12. Tax: If necessary under applicable laws, the Prizes may be supplemented with cash prize equal to the tax due on the prize. In such a case, the cash prize will be deducted and paid as tax due under the applicable laws. In some cases, the winner may be obliged to pay taxes on the prize under local regulations of the country the winner is a resident of. We are not be obliged to provide guidance in this respect.
13. Limitation of liability: Insofar as is permitted by law, the Organiser, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner(s) or runner(s)-up or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by the negligence of the Organiser, its agents or distributors or that of their employees. Your statutory rights are not affected. The Organiser will NOT accept responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged, or delayed in transit for any reason or in any way.
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15. General: (a) We may wish to transfer all or a part of our rights under these terms to someone else without obtaining your consent. You agree that we may do so provided that the transfer does not significantly disadvantage you. (b) If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms and conditions, the Organiser may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to exclude you from participating in the competition; (c) The Organiser reserves the right to hold void, suspend, cancel, or amend the competition where it becomes necessary to do so; and (d) These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of Poland and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Poland.
16. Questions? Please contact support@gog.com
Post edited August 07, 2020 by chandra
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Nope, I'm antisocial.
I have no social network accounts, and I'm fine with that!
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GOG.com: . We promise to check all the answers and avoid the most creative ones
Fixed.
I was going to just check the wallpaper but... meh... the guy is talented for sure but the theme doesn't speak to me. :P

And instead of adverting Galaxy you should make it available on other platforms too.

Cheers.
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Hey, GOG, I have a competition for you too.

To win the competition you need:
1. Fire your marketer who does not understand what audience the users of GOG are (and why they chose GOG over Steam).
2. Hire a usability specialist.
3. Add a page to the site that will contain only a simple log in the form:
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{Date - Time}: Sale X{link_to_sale} started. Will end in {Timer}.
{Date - Time}: The game Y{link_to_game} added to catalog.
{Date - Time}: The game A{link_to_game} changed: Added file(-s).
{Date - Time}: The game B{link_to_game} changed: Changed file(-s) / Changed version.
{Date - Time}: The game C{link_to_game} changed: Deleted file(-s).
{Date - Time}: The game Z{link_to_game} will be removed from the catalog after {Timer} due to the request of the publisher.
---
and so on.
Simple, fast, convenient and useful page with such a log (and nothing else on this page).

After completing these three points, you are guaranteed to win the competition, receive fame and praise in the comments from all users. Everyone is happy, users buy more games, and everyone leaves for the next competition.
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You dunces. ANYONE can share anyone's stats from the share page. You guys really need improvement at this whole programming and web development thing.
Post edited August 07, 2020 by paladin181
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Another promotion to bring people to use Galaxy 2.0.

I would really prefer if they would simply make Galaxy 2.0 that good that I really WANT to use it. Right now since it isn't even possible to hide or tag games per platform (a thing I can do when using different clients of course) unfortunately I still end up using different clients which kinda contradicts this whole "one client for everything" idea. However the GOG Galaxy team decided to simply ignore my tickets regarding this big flaw in Galaxy (I guess I must have posted the issue three times now ...). It's also remarkable that Steam (and every other client) is launching in about 5-10 seconds max while Galaxy is taking 30 seconds minimum ... but yes, go ahead and do promotions for Galaxy 2.0 instead of simply improving it.
Post edited August 07, 2020 by MarkoH01
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Has Galaxy 2.0 added support for tags from Galaxy 1.X and the website? Until this feature is added, I'm staying with 1.2.
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Can you win not having to give away your legal rights to utilize Galaxy 2.0? If you would just walk back that completely unneeded provisional add, I would be more than happy to download 2.0. Otherwise Gog is just going the way of every other digital distributor and the loop holes are slowly being closed.
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We may not like it at all but I think campaigns like this will ultimately help get publishers on board that are still too wary of this whole DRM-free business.

Think about it - if Galaxy would be universally seen and perceived just as any other client out there (meaning mandatory, while behind the scenes still optional, with the alternative for offline installers, of course) it could eventually convince those publishers that are used/conditioned to the DRM'ed, and in their eyes only way of distribution/publishing, to release on GoG.
Post edited August 07, 2020 by Swedrami
Alright, guys and gals. I am going to out myself right here and now:

I am more of a reuterer than a gamer.


...because i more regularly read Reuters News than play computer games. (Still, one doesn't exclude the other...)

How much 21st century street creds and cool kids currency is it worth to self-identiy as a reuterer?
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A contest where you're forced to both share personal information and use social media?

The person who came up with this idea should be fired...




...out of a cannon, into the sun.
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So a "true gamer" is an exhibitionist?

An optional gaming client
GOG Galaxy is the tailor-made optional client

First, log in to GOG GALAXY 2.0
James Bond, working in disguise, walked through the headquarters of Spectre and could not understand what was betraying him: either the suit of an admiral of the British Navy, or the Queen's monogram embroidered on the sleeve, or a large inscription on the back "Agent 007".

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Swedrami: We may not like it at all but I think campaigns like this will ultimately help get publishers on board that are still too wary of this whole DRM-free business.
Think about it - if Galaxy would be universally seen and perceived just as any other client out there (meaning mandatory, while behind the scenes still optional, with the alternative for offline installers, of course) it could eventually convince those publishers that are used/conditioned to the DRM'ed, and in their eyes only way of distribution/publishing, to release on GoG.
Embedding store's client support into the game is an ADDITIONAL job for the publisher's developers.
It's a choice between: just build a DRM-Free version of the game VS. build a DRM-Free version of the game and add support of that store's client over there.
The second option is unlikely to be more attractive to publishers.
Post edited August 07, 2020 by Loger13
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Matthew94: Has Galaxy 2.0 added support for tags from Galaxy 1.X and the website? Until this feature is added, I'm staying with 1.2.
Still waiting as well. Their priorities seem different than ours unfortunately.
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DoctorGOGgles: A contest where you're forced to both share personal information and use social media?

The person who came up with this idea should be fired...

...out of a cannon, into the sun.
While i agree with your general sentiment, note that nobody here is forced to do anything.

With that out of the way, do a Polka dance! I leave you no other choice. Dance!
Post edited August 07, 2020 by elgonzo