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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.
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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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16. Questions? Please contact support@gog.com
Post edited August 07, 2020 by chandra
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what if we have all that stuff turned off or don't even use Galaxy like half the people that have posted have said.

I don't care that I have played 763 hours in a game and got 15/17 of the "do this completely pointless thing you would never normally do for these completely useless points" or "you did this thing that you would have done anyway just because it's part if the game"
Post edited August 07, 2020 by Zergoss
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agogfan: So a "true gamer" is an exhibitionist?
No, usually not. Exhibitionists usually don't hide in basements or darkened apartements.
Speaking of client and stats, EPIC rolls out achievements and MODS! supports on selected titles.As they have fewer titles than GOG, it would be interesting if they can force all games to be on par with their Steam counterparts. Something that GOG haven't managed till this day

As for Galaxy itself, I uninstalled the old version and haven't try the 2.0 yet. Even if I do, it's unlikely to me to connect all the other clients to it. I have a good guess of where all the games I do have on each accounts and a one client to track all is not really necessary for me for recent being.
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agogfan: So a "true gamer" is an exhibitionist?
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elgonzo: No, usually not. Exhibitionists usually don't hide in basements or darkened apartements.
That's a relief! I was worried i'd have to buy a webcam or actually have to go outside to meet other true gamers so we could hug each other and rejoice in our triumphs... or lack of triumphs if you're as terrible at gaming as me.
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No Thanks GOG
interesting competion....... i could share it here i guess, just for fun....

Lazy sob interesting in anything not really playing everything, bound in total war but secret admirer of sakura's wings
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Zergoss: I don't care that I have played 763 hours in a game and got 15/17 of the "do this completely pointless thing you would never normally do for these completely useless points" or "you did this thing that you would have done anyway just because it's part if the game"
The cool kids over at Steam will laugh at you for not getting the full 17/17.
What do you even write in your CV if all you got is a lousy 15/17?
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A social media event. Good for social media users, I guess.
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Eh. I was curious what it actually shared... and it turns out it's no different from the stats showing on my profile page that's visible to all GOG users, so I shall pass.
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Wait, you're serious?
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Once again I'm very disappointed by the rules of your giveaway...

If this is supposed to be a fun event for GOG Galaxy users, why can't we participate in the forums here ?
Post edited August 07, 2020 by Sildring
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How we can participate if we are a Linux user?
It's unfair...we are GOG users too /:
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idbeholdME: I am fine with Galaxy but whenever there is any social media as a requirement for anything, I'm out. I don't even have an account on any of them :P
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Enebias: I have no social network accounts, and I'm fine with that!
100 % this.
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Sildring: Once again I'm very disappointed by the rules of your giveaway...

If this is supposed to be a fun event for GOG Galaxy users, why can't we participate in the forums here ?
Because GOG only wants to push its own client with the event, no more, no less.

GOG has to put up with the question.

Why is the client so important to GOG, or why does GOG want as many as possible to use the client?
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Sildring: If this is supposed to be a fun event for GOG Galaxy users, why can't we participate in the forums here ?
The target of this event are not really GOG users. Why do you think GOG tries to animate GOG users to post about GOG on social media? Who do you think GOG tries to reach with those GOG user-generated social media posts?

It's rather typical for the social media age for companies to try mobilizing their customer base to reach people who are not customers (yet). You can call me Captain Obvious if you like, i don't mind... ;-)

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Valdasaar: Why is the client so important to GOG, or why does GOG want as many as possible to use the client?
Simply because GOG has chosen the client-based approach for distributing/installing and updating games. Especially the latter has an advantage over offline installers (as much as i like offline installers myself, i am not irrational enough to deny this particular advantage the client has over offline installers). Also, there are those inane "features" like achievements and such, which so many people seem to like, and for which a client-based approach is a rather good fit. It should be pretty clear that offline installers are not GOG's preferred method of delivering games to their customers.

There is no great conspiracy, there is no scheming in the dark. It's rather trivial, really...

While i prefer offline installers, i won't faint if they go away, as long as GOG does not tie the games to DRM. As long as the games themselves remain untethered from an online service, i am fine with (almost) whatever GOG wants to do with regard to game delivery. I am well capable to 7zip a local copy of the game directory if i wish to keep an offline copy of the game around. (Still, it would be more annoying compared to the convenience of just downloading the offline installer and be done with it.)
Post edited August 07, 2020 by elgonzo