Hi, I'm BenKii. And this is The Community Giveaway. A tradition that began with IAmSinistar back in 2015 and followed by moonshineshadow, zeogold, finkleroy, Lone_Scout, and now me, BenKii, the 6th host of the best longest running giveaway on the Gog forums. I want to give a huge thanks to all the previous hosts and to all the donators to this giveaway. You all make this community a better place. :)

Previous editions can be found here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/a_community_giveaway
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway_gog_edition
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway_gog_edition_redux
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gogmmunity_monthly_giveaway

Please set your chat settings to public so that you can send any donations to me or receive any donations from the Community Giveaway. Only GOG keys will be accepted in this thread.

If you want to discuss the rules or other circumstances related to this thread, please do it in the following thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_community_giveaway_tradition_discussion_and_poll

In an effort to not clutter the thread, I won't be saying "you're welcome" every time I'm thanked. So instead, I'll say it now to every fellow Goglodyte that has thanked me in the past, today, and into the future. You're welcome! :)

So, how does this thing work?
The short version:
*This giveaway is open to active members of the GOG community, you can ask for a single key from the list in the 2nd post.
* Keys are on a first come, first served basis. The first eligible member to ask for a game from the list will get the key. Ineligible members will be told to be more active in the forum before participating in the giveaway.
* You can only get one gift per month. The new month will begin on the 1st of the month after I make a post stating we are in the new month. Please check the 4th post in this thread titled "Important Announcements" to see when the new month has started.

The complete rules are listed below. Please read them to get the full idea.

*****RULES*****
PLEASE READ THESE BEFORE ASKING FOR ANYTHING.

#1. If you donate a key to this giveaway, you're leaving who gets it fully up to my discretion and the rules of this giveaway. If you'd like to pick and choose who gets what yourself, you'll have to open up a giveaway of your own.

#2. Only reputable members are accepted. By "reputable", I mean having an active and positive presence in the community. Who I deem reputable is at my discretion. As a general guideline, you must have a non-recent registration and have been actively participating in the community recently and for at least a month or so. Activity that consists mostly of giveaway entries or low effort posts like short posts on some of the forum games doesn't meet the eligibility requirements. I will be the judge on whether you are reputable enough or not. Once you are eligible, you do not stay eligible for life. I will check your recent activity every time you ask for a game to see if you are still eligible.

#3. You will be perma-banned from this giveaway if:
- you are rude
- you are on the Known Scammers list or have otherwise been shown to be an alt account/impersonator/troll
- you knowingly give empty/false/unusable codes
All blacklistings are at my discretion.

#4. Keys are first-come, first-served.

#5. Ask in the thread. No requesting via PM unless you've already requested in the thread and I somehow missed it. You can only request one key per post (even when asking for daggered keys) and requesting several gifts in order of preference is not allowed.

#6. The limit is one game per month. Exceptions are made for games in the daggered keys section, which indicates that they were given away en masse for free sometime in the past. The giveaway goes by calendar month. On the first of every month, I will make a post stating when the new month has begun and then prior giftees can ask for another game. In case you miss the post stating when the new month has begun, you can check the 4th post in this thread titled "Important Announcement" to see if we are in the new month.

#7. Please refrain from editing a post that includes a request. Please carefully consider what you want to request before you request it. If you need to change your request, please wait until at least 10 minutes after you made your original request and post a new message. If you post before 10 minutes have passed, the forum will automatically merge the two posts, which will result in an edited post. All posts that include a request or nomination will automatically be declined if they have been edited for any reason, even if it's because the GOG forum merged two of your posts.

#8. You are only allowed to request keys for yourself. Every granted key must be redeemed by the account that requested it. If you would like to request a key for a friend or family member, they need to meet the eligibility requirements and you need to nominate them for it. If a donor notices that a key they donated was redeemed by a different account than the one that requested it, please let me know about it via PM. We'll all have to have a chat about what happened, and I'll take it on a case by case basis. If there are repeated issues with the same user breaking this rule, it will lead to them being banned from the giveaway.

#9. If a game's DLC is listed alongside the base game, you're free to request just the DLC. The only way it would be required to be a packaged deal is if it's requested by the donor. When this happens, I will make a note of it on the list. This is true of all keys, including the daggered keys that include tons of games. If you'd only like one or two games, that's fine.

#10. Some games are on a multi-game code. If given such a code, only redeem the game(s) you were granted. IF YOU VIOLATE THIS RULE, YOU WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM THE GIVEAWAY.

#11. Nominating other members is allowed and encouraged. The nomination will only be accepted if the nominee falls within the terms of this giveaway. If a key is granted to a nominee, it will count toward their monthly limit. The nominee has a week to claim the game before it is up for grabs for everyone else again. If somebody has been nominated for a game, the game will be removed from the list until either redeemed or a week has passed. If you do not wish to receive nominations, either leave a request in the thread or PM me and you'll be added to the "No Nominations For Me Now" list. If you wish to be removed from this list, let me know in the same manner.
You are allowed to make one nomination per day. If you make a nomination, please wait 24 hours before you nominate again. This is to prevent one person from solely controlling who gets what game. Only active members of the GOG community may nominate.

#12. If you wish to make a donation, please send me a chat message containing the keys. You will receive full credit for your donation and yourname will be added to the list of donors. You may, however, request to be anonymous, and I will honor this request.
I will NEVER ask for keys to be re-sent. If you get a message asking for such, ignore it, as you're likely getting scammed.

#13. Donors are welcome to check if a key has been redeemed by the user who requested it. If a key has not been redeemed, and it has been at least 72 hours since the key was granted, the donor is welcome to contact me. Upon being notified by the donor, I will notify the giftee that they must redeem the key within one week from that moment. If they fail to do so, the key will be returned to the giveaway.

#14. No code-dropping of any sort. Please. I know you mean well, but I'd rather you donate to this giveaway. If you want to simply drop the code, there are threads for that purpose.

User's Approved:
lootomen0 gets Wolfenstein The New Order
plan99 gets Wolfenstein The New Order

Thank you gog2002x and BenKii for Wolfenstein The New Order

Thanks BenKii and bluethief!

Just an idle comment, I'm surprised Wasteland 1 has been on that list for so long.
It was a great RPG when I was a kid, the spiritual ancestor of Fallout.
I think I still have the Apple II version at my mom's house in storage (I haven't tested to see if the disks still work. My Apple IIGS has been in mothballs since 2009 and while I tried it out during the COVID shutdown I didn't try every disk as I have hundreds)

Note this isn't a request, just an endorsement before the key expires. If I really wanted I could probably make disk images and get it to work on an emulator, although I'd have to go Apple IIGS->3.5" disk ->Windows 98SE/XP computer->modern computer.
Yes, I have ways to write to an MS-DOS disk with the IIGS. There is (or was in the early 2000's) something called "MS-DOS tools" available on the Ground and Caltech FTP sites, and I think the uMisch one too.

It essentially doesn't expire (technically, the expiration date is January 1st 2200).

Plus it was freebie at one point (same as VirtuaVerse and Flashback), so most of regulars probably have it already.

and Crime Cities, too.

Oh, indeed. I even forgot I have it :D

Thank you to DoryaMish7 and BenKii for Wolfenstein: The New Order! :)

Hello There, It's Cool you took over this wonderful giveaway, I believe you are very suitable.

These might be questions that should be posted in the discussion thread
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_community_giveaway_tradition_discussion_and_poll/
And if so - do answer there and point me to that entry in the thread above (in a reply with a link),
and I will edit my post to remove most of the non-giveaway related info and probably re-post it there in response to yours,
But do these rules also apply to Daggered keys, and in particular those that have short expiration dates?
Regarding #2,
I have refrained from asking too much keys like these in a given month in previous iterations which resulted in expiry, as I do not feel my current forum participation is as it used to be, and I don't want to feel like I leech,
and that was before the "forum participation" rule was so informative and blunt. Now it makes me feel I doubt if I'll even be eligible "again" and whether it will last, as I simply don't have the time to be more active nowadays.
Regarding #13,
considering my limited access to Gog nowadays, I both miss on occasion a giveaway, and even if I wait until a Daggered key approaches expiry before I ask for it, I may still not be able to Redeem it in the 72 timeframe, in particular given the logical assumption I won't get a response in the very hours post a request.
If such a key is granted and then returned - it will shorten even more its availability time-span, leaving much less chances it will be asked again before it gets expired.
I think starting 10 days or so before expiry, all rules regarding Daggered keys should not be followed - But I will accept of course a different ruling - If you see fit (though if I got #13 correctly 10 days is within the limit so this might not be an issue altogether - in particularly when requesting a key that has a shorter lifespan than 10 days).

Taking both above into account, considering Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is within that 10 days timeframe,
I think I it should now be open for nomination for a key - that allows this person to skip rule #2 above / get over the games limit for this month, as otherwise I guess one would have asked.
I'm not sure if nominations in such conditions are covered by the rules, in particularly when the nominator may not be eligible himself.
Though if there's just one key available, maybe it would be best to wait a little longer so someone that really wants it have a chance first.

For me I would have probably asked for a wolfenstein key, but it looks as if these have run out? no biggie, I have it on epic anyways (though a DRM-Free version is always preferable).
Speaking of keys that run out - I didn't spot a key for Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun being available? Guess no one had it before to get a key for giveaway.
I do hope all keys for The Beast Inside were given before expiry - first time I even heard about this game - when was it on mass giveaway?

And to have some purpose for this post other than just questions - for those that did not notice Warhammer Skulls Goodie Pack 2023 (GOG) [includes Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000] is still up for grabs until 01.06

When the giveaway was active, that goodie pack failed to have a store page. Thank you for pointing out it now has one. I am grabbing a few extra codes.

I only saw it as a bundle with Wasteland 2, not as a no-strings-attached freebie. When was it a true freebie?

May I ask for Wasteland 1: The Original Classic?.

I REALLY wish I hadn't missed that. I wanted Wasteland 2. GRR!