I do like free things. There's sommething hypnotic about the word free that makes it appealing. While I am sorry I missed out on free things I'm not broken up about it. I'm in the exact same position as before. I have a lot of games on my wishlist and the fact that I didn't recieve a game means there was nothing I was interested in. I don't curse the heavens every time I don't win the lottery, because I never buy a ticket.

The whole stuff is already over so complaining won't get you anything.

I'm starting to think I'm wrong complaining about not winning the lottery. It's still don't get that whole "buy a ticket" thing everyone keep yelling at me.

I hope you at least enjoyed the free ride of this thread as much as I did. No free game, was still entertained.

Exactly. I got a game, but not another I would have liked (I wishlisted the first Batman game only), bummer? Yeah I guess so, but as others have pointed out, at the end of the day, GOG didn't have to give anything to anyone.

The only thing this thread is going to achieve is making GOG think twice before offering any other freebies, all because a small number of Scrooge's got their goat up about not getting a game they never wanted in the first place.

chief assistant? you mean you're an ASS tech? After Sales Service technician?

[1] A list to keep track of items one might purchase, daringly labelled a wishlist, is somehow voodoo when deciding who to give a game to that might derive the most benefit from it?
[2] Do you have a problem with lotteries, too? Those undeserving bastards are getting MILLIONS of dollars, and I bet they spend it on selfish stuff, too! (Unlike me, who would give it all to charity because I'm that good.)
Because everything you just complained about is the exact way that a lottery works. In Australia (but, interestingly, not in the UK) one may purchase a "system" ticket, whereby, for a multiple of a single ticket price —but less than the cost of purchasing the equivalent number of individual tickets— a ticket will succeed if the draw includes any six numbers of the seven, eight, nine or ten indicated on the ticket. Is this unfair? It's a lottery!
I would argue that the system ticket allows those game to increase their bet, for better odds, but higher costs.
Here, Gog as a service provider, is indicating with a small reward ($70, really? I wouldn't pay that much for these games, but you might, I suppose; the free game I received I would not have paid more than $5 for—if that) to encourage and remind their customers about a useful feature.
So you missed out on this one.
So did everyone who didn't think to add a Telltale game to their wishlist. You might as well complain that the giveaway didn't include Fallout 76, or some such.

You are complaining because you want (the opportunity) to take EVERY game that Gog may decide to offer to people. Perhaps you might like to examine your desires? Why do you need a game that you didn't even think enough of to add to your wishlist?

[3] Yes, your role as the interlocutor of the dispossessed has been noted. I was merely stating that, contrary to your assertion, pro et contra, the balance sheet is decidedly in Gog's favour, and, further, this is to be expected and is normal.

And are you disappointed that you didn't receive a free game that you didn't want? Exactly.
You are disappointed that Gog didn't give you a game that you didn't want because they should give you a game that you do want, even though they have no way to know what such a game would be, since you do not use the wishlist. That about cover it?
What? How many games do you want to play? Seriously?
Even though I would never tell you how to use your wishlist, I find it amusing that you wish to win every free game giveaway.
A word of advice: a neurosis like this ludic aboulia is incurable; avarice builds on itself — that black hole yearns but is never satisfied. You have stated (my emphasis, above) clearly that you didn't even want the game, AND that you don't use the wishlist in the perfectly reasonable manner that is provided. Yet you are also disconsolate because those who did wish for the game and got it are somehow "unfairly" rewarded. In a lottery.

To be clear: you are upset because you has identified a specific, rare instance where someone might not benefit; where a person might like a game but not have indicated such with the mechanism provided (as it is used across the Interwebs) is patently narcissistic. You have further claimed this as your prerogative, taking offence that Gog might actually prefer you to use the wishlist as, y'know, a list of things you wish you could buy.
I suggest that you might like to consider the price for your prerogative to use the wishlist in a manner not designed is, unfortunately for you, costing you free games that (even though you don't want them) you might get. Choices have consequences, otherwise they aren't choices.
Exactly.
What we have here is a microcosmic example of Postmodern politics that is a millennial plague: confected injury (not receiving a gratuity that was not wanted), derived ex post facto by deconstructing the event (a giveaway to those who indicated they might like it).
The plaintiffs have contrived this identity-specific angst through the prism of disaffection; of course some people didn't receive this targeted gift (hence they are identified by this circumstance): they didn't indicate they wanted it. That's life working as designed. They are trying to reverse-engineer the lottery to get the winning numbers. Grievance because there aren't legitimate ways for to game the system.
Good luck with that. :)
It has to be realistic.You are breaking a fundamental assumption, like Euclid's fifth postulate (y'know, the classical pons asinorum?).
Delicious.
But at least you'll be able to say "I told you so!", right? Feeling underappreciated? Gog marketing department not returning your emails? Don't despair, they deserve their fate!

edit: nearly, dammit. One missed closing parenthesis and the keyboard buffer stole my letter that would have correctly spelt the word, I swear!

I don't check my email very often, but checked it today, and got Puzzle Agent added to my account. From this post I'm guessing it's all the Telltale games, which suggests that they might be removed soon, given that it's being shut down. To be honest, I didn't even realise Puzzle Agent was a Telltale game, but I did check, and Puzzle Agent 2 is also a Telltale game, but that didn't seem to get added to anyone's account. I was just wondering if all of this means it's highly likely that Telltale games will be removed from GOG's catalogue, and if so, would it be wise to purchase Puzzle Agent 2 sooner rather than later?

Sigh, more transference. This has absolutely nothing to do with my desire for those games. If it did, I wouldn't have posted at all as I'm completely uninterested in having any of them.

This is a matter of principle. GOG shouldn't be giving out games in this manner. If they're going to give games to some people, then it should be some sort of a random draw. Using the wishlist in this fashion is just plain bullshit.

It's really not fun watching as everybody else gets something and not even be given a trinket or even acknowledgement that people were being left out is not something that I've forgotten from when everybody got a copy during that Fallout giveaway and everybody else got a kiss off for having been foolish enough to buy it. Not even a cheap to produce wall paper being added to the bundle.

I guess, I'm somewhat less narcissistic and egocentric than the folks in this thread.
Good god man, that is the most impressive array of strawmen I've ever seen. Do you even bother to read what you're responding to.

I have several hundred games on here, the fact that I didn't get this games is completely beside the point. I have no interest in them and likely would never have played them even if I had been gifted them.

I have tremendous issues with the way in which the giveaway was done. Which is something that you and the bootlicker brigade can't be bothered to consider.

This is just another instance of GOG fucking things up and then refusing to apologize for it. I remember back when absolutely everybody got a copy of Fallout except for the folks that had bought a copy. We didn't get a code as was the custom, we didn't get a trinket added to the game, we didn't even get an apology until folks started to raise a ruckus.

This was a cynical business move, nothing more. And it's another example of GOG screwing up what could be a nice gesture through a hamfisted implementation.
I wouldn't consider that to be a choice to participate. Kind of reminds me of Arthur's failure to save his house because he didn't see the plans that were on display in the bottom floor of a municipal building that clearly showed that his house would be bulldozed to make way for a traffic bypass route. Or the earthlings for not seeing that their planet would suffer the same fate because they didn't know to look for those plans either.

The apologistics in this thread is rather mind-blowing.
You reap what you sow. Perhaps actually contribute something to the thread and you might get it. The folks upset by this have been far less puerile about it that you folks that seem incapable of reading what's been posting to you.

Not really, what I want is for them to stop doing this sort of stupid thing. GOG used to have great giveaways, even when not everybody got what was being given away, this is just the latest terrible idea they've had.

Wow. You are far more optimistic than me - and that means a lot ;)

This thread has been amusing, but I think it's time we shut it down.

... and so we lost Telika after several days without food. *starts sobbing* We will miss you. ;)

GOG gave away some Telltale games (you will find the list of those given away somewhere in this thread - I might find a link for you as well). Your assumptions are correct. The "The Walking Dead" games have already been removed from GOG. Steam also removed other Telltale games as well and it's likely that others might follow on GOG too (depending on who gets the rights) since Telltale itself is no more. So if you like Puzzle Agent you might not want to wait too long purchasing the second one as well - especially since it is explaining several things that the first part did not.

Edit: Here is the promised link with the list of all games that GOG gave away-

But since it was completely uncertain that you needed the wishlist and it also was completely uncertain which games to put on it to be a "winner" isn't that random enough? Any more information given upfront to the participants would have made it less "random". The wishlist was just one way to use as a randomizer having the side effect (since normally you put games on it you'd like to have) that the winners would be happy if they won. GOG could also have decided that everybody who visited the site three times a day would get a game (or those who visited the site even more would get even more games) to name another randomizer mechanism - but in this case people might have received games they did not even want in the first place and that would be a waste. Another randomizer process could have been to give away a game to every user that owns another randomly picked game - again - no guarantee that the person who'd won would actually have wanted the game. Yes, they did not announce it since they wanted people to be surprised (that's normally a good thing to want) but the mechanism they used was focused on giving out games to those that MIGHT at least want them.

I can relate a lot more to your example here since it was meant for everybody to win in this case and as you said - a duplicate gift key would have been a better idea in this case.

and? what is it, a book of revelations?