Posted November 25, 2018
Anime-BlackWolf: … They / GOG should have taken into account who bought Telltale titles in the last few weeks, how many Telltale titles are in one's account and so on. THEN you would have found a quite big base of people, who were really invested into those few missing and given away titles. Not someone who put them on a "list" and not much more. …
scientiae: So, Gog is at fault for not trying to guess who wished for games they didn't put on their wishlist, otherwise they are evil conniving grasping greedsters? OldOldGamer: … I have no words here... I can't bother with a wishlist, so I get punished
No advertisement of the gift coming, nor explanation of the rationale. …
scientiae: So, now Gog have to compensate for your lack of input to the convenience tools they have added for you to use? No advertisement of the gift coming, nor explanation of the rationale. …
Nicole28: No, it isn't. But I truly believe that GOG isn't being deliberate about it or attempting to force people to use certain features. To me, it looks like GOG wished to hold a giveaway for these games, but, only to people who actually wanted them. Since GOG aren't psychic mind-readers and there is no crystal ball in GOG's lab either, the best way to find out who genuinely wanted these games is really through the wishlist.
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scientiae: Exactly. I'm surprised PixelBoy plays games, which inherently reward certain actions and punish others. This is like complaining that the manipulative game designers made me a homicidal killer, because I had to learn mass killing to play their evil gamez. …
You're waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overthinking this. How are Gog to know you want the game they are able to give away?
You are seriously complaining that the method they use to deliver a surprise to people is unfair because they didn't overtly tell you that if you didn't use your wishlist (facilities they spent money to develop for the convenience of their customers), then your wishes won't come true?
You should search for "implied demand", it will explain the economics of the process that you just participated in. Now, with a simple Pavlovian example, Gog has sparked a meme for the people who use the forum (did they have to tell us to use to forum to ask questions that may crop up in the process of installing (old) games on various platforms, including the hleter-skelter community of Windows environments, covering countless configurations of third-party hardware manufacturers, too?).
PixelBoy: … Some other people, who don't even remember wishlisting them, possibly clicked them semi-accidentally, got them.
No one knew this was going to be how wishlists are used.
scientiae: This was me. So I was pleasantly surprised, countering your abomiable mood. No one knew this was going to be how wishlists are used.
I had no idea Tales of Monekey Island was even on my wishlist (I have about a hundred titles I keep there, the only titles I am interested in —but then I only own a few hundred games, so perhaps my gaming tastes are too elitist?) but I was pleasantly surprised to receive it gratis.
Thank you!
This kind of reminds me of back when they gave a game to absolutely everybody, except for the folks that had foolishly bought the game previously. We wound up getting absolutely nothing and had to watch all the people who did get the game gushing about how generous the gift was while being left out and having folks rubbing our noses in it.
And it was generous, but by the same token to completely leave out the folks that had already bought a copy was rather mean-spirited. I don't think anybody really expected to get a second copy, but getting absolutely nothing, including a gift code to give away or any sort of acknowledgment was pretty poor.
I'm not really surprised that folks who got the games are going around modding people down for correctly pointing out how defective this particular effort was. As I, and others, have pointed out this isn't fair. There are many other ways they could have gone about giving out the games that wouldn't have upset people. And it definitely makes me less likely to shop here again in the future if they care so little for the customers that this kind of bullshit is permissible.
Truly, the site has fallen a great deal from the early days when the promos were actually fun. Now it's to hell with the consequences and exploitative sales. Not cool.