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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.
14. Social media: You acknowledge that the competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch or YouTube. You agree to release Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube from any responsibility to you in relation to the competition.
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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chandra: 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.
Holy down rates batman!

Jokes aside, I don't feel like giving even more personal information up(likely to be used for profit or GOG's benefit) atm.

BTW question(staff or any user can answer this): What falls under the various more general terms above, like offensive or inappropriate(as anyone can find almost anything offensive or inappropriate)?

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GOG.com: We promise to check the answers until we find the most marketable simplistic one and go with that.
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StarChan: Fixed.
Fixed even more
Post edited August 08, 2020 by GameRacer
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Zoidberg: And instead of adverting Galaxy you should make it available on other platforms too.
But that would defeat the purpose of the secret "get more remaining holdouts onto galaxy" objective of this thread.

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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.
There are some who would likely not come even with such appeasement.....the type that want it their way or not at all.

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Mr.Mumbles: 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.
Since they want it shared on social media, I would wager they have some sort of beneficial(for GOG) agreement with those platforms.
Post edited August 08, 2020 by GameRacer
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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 ?
Because it's more like "fun" data harvesting disguised as a contest.

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Truth007: Yea, I hope other drm free competitors come to balance things out.
There is zoom-platform dot com

Problem is it's paypal only atm, cannot gift games, and no forums.
Post edited August 08, 2020 by GameRacer
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Lesson one in business: identify and know your demographic/customer base.

GOG failing to apply such basic knowledge doesn't exactly increase my faith in them. Tip of the iceberg when it comes to bad decision making?
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If Galaxy would be available for Linux, at least I could have something to show, in theory. But I'll just let you know that I'm the type of gamer who likes to play for my own fun, not for others to look at some meaningless numbers that they will quickly forget, but not before they judge me on how many hours I racked up in time.

And clearly I prefer offline installers because that's one of the main points about being here at GOG, so I can have my DRM-free collection available even if my internet breaks down. Gee, have you forgotten all about why a lot of people are here in the first place?
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DadJoke007: Lesson one in business: identify and know your demographic/customer base.
Thing is, most of the user base is likely using galaxy.....it's the stragglers they hope to lure in with this sort of thing(and new goggers).
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Another customer voting thumbs-down to (a) GOG Galaxy (whatever version); (b) social media; and (c) compulsory disclosure of personal information. The "prizes" offered are quite old games that have been on sale numerous times, so anyone who wants them cheap just has to wait a little.

In all honesty, this sort of thing would have been better left to GOG's Facebook/Twitter pages, not kicking up a storm in the forums. Though it does provide a good insight into GOG's customer base, it's probably one the marketing droids will be keen to ignore.
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GOG, as much as I love you, and I truly do, I am with the majority here on this one.
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PixelBoy: Install a client (which may or may not be DRM based on one's personal views), share your personal data over third party social media, and get... (drum roll) a free wallpaper!!!
You don't need to share anything to get the wallpaper, just follow the link.
"...7 Hours played" lol

Somehow I have 18 achievements.
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Wait a second . Did i see a low rated post from a blue one ?
YongYea should make a video about his. He loves CR Projekt so much.
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Social media is trash, so I'll pass. DRM-free is good and pro-consumer, selling off your personal information - not so much.
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PixelBoy: Install a client (which may or may not be DRM based on one's personal views), share your personal data over third party social media, and get... (drum roll) a free wallpaper!!!
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Zoidberg: You don't need to share anything to get the wallpaper, just follow the link.
That's not what the message from GOG says, although that makes things even worse - it means that they are lying as well!

The message says:

"Today we have a special treat for you - a free wallpaper"

"How to get all this? First, log in to GOG GALAXY 2.0 (you can install it from , 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"


There's absolutely no mention about it being available without using Galaxy and sharing personal data.
This is almost as bad, from a certain point of view even worse, than the attempt to trick customers into installing Galaxy by hiding the "offline backup" files under some dropdown option in the past.
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This contest is not for GOG's audience.

We are not here to trade our privacy.

Please fire your PR people.