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General discussionThis holiday season gift your loved ones amazing games – see how to do it and take our quiz to help you choose!(7 posts)(7 posts)
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Posted December 18, 2023
Our Winter Sale is in full swing! We have more than 6000 amazing discounts up to -90%, great new releases like Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (-32%), special SEGA Bundles ( Warhammer 40K and Endless™), Wartales, Pirates of Belerion, pre-order of Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, giveaways, and more to come!

With all the available discounts and the holiday spirit getting stronger and stronger each day, now is the perfect opportunity to not only enhance your own gaming library, but also gift some amazing games to your loved ones!

Putting a smile on someone’s face is just a few clicks away – let’s take a look at how to do it, it’s super easy!



Firstly, find the game that you’d like to gift in our store. Let’s say these titles are: Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition (-33%), UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection (-50%), and Days Gone (-75%).

Then, simply add them to your cart. If you already own the game you want to gift, the “Add to cart” button will be automatically replaced to “Buy as a gift”.



When all of your chosen games are added to your cart, head to the check out window, select your method of payment, and click the “Gift this order” option. If you already own the games, this option will be automatically selected.

Next, you’ll provide the gift recipient’s email address, as well as the optional personal note, which he’ll receive with the gift.



After that simply complete the purchase and that’s it – you’ve just made someone’s holiday season!

Find all the available Winter Sale discounts HERE, or take our QUIZ to help you decide which game would be a good fit for your loved one.

Happy playing and happy gifting!
Posted December 19, 2023
GOG has the best gift system I've seen anywhere. A couple of things to add, though: 1) you can send the email to yourself to forward later and 2) consider buying games individually to gift (you can forward the codes all at once via #1), if you aren't certain the person you are giving them to will want all of them (get wallet funds to cover all of them first which is quicker and makes less of the money disappear in transit). I would guess support can untangle them if necessary but with individual purchases you don't need to.

Also, it isn't obvious but if you go to the orders and settings page "Orders History" at the top is actually a drop down menu and you can just look at gifts (or unredeemed or redeemed gifts). The only annoying part is that there isn't an easy way to exclude giveaways (codes you get when you already have the giveaway that are valid for 30 days) and they don't even indicate that the giveaways have expried.
Posted December 19, 2023
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joveian: The only annoying part is that there isn't an easy way to exclude giveaways (codes you get when you already have the giveaway that are valid for 30 days) and they don't even indicate that the giveaways have expried.
They should list the expiration date in order history, and expired codes should be listed as such instead of being left as "not yet redeemed" forever.
And while typing your own e-mail works just fine, it shouldn't be hard to add the explicit option, so you'll still have the send to e-mail option as it is now but also "buy gift code" (or something like that) to automatically send it to yourself.
Posted December 19, 2023
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Cavalary: They should list the expiration date in order history,
Was there at some point in the past when they started doing it...

*shoves you out of the way as a support scaffold drops from GOG HQ
Posted December 19, 2023
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joveian: GOG has the best gift system I've seen anywhere. A couple of things to add, though: ...
I saw Gog users (with a lot more money than me, that's for sure) that are used to hosting giveaways of many games at once complain that they can't buy more than one gift key for the same game in a single purchase.

But other than this and the stuff you and Cavalary mentioned, yep it is a pretty useful system. :)
Posted December 19, 2023
Who is this for? People who've been here a while already know this. And people who don't want anything to do with GOG -- whether they don't play games themselves or they play on a different platform -- aren't able to purchase gifts due to your restrictions.

You'd be better off addressing gift cards not working. Threads like the aforementioned keep popping up on a regular basis, and I haven't seen as much as a support article with a workaround.
Posted December 20, 2023
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joppo:
Oh yeah, it is not just in a single purchase but you can't get gift codes for the same game within 48 hours now (I think the 24 hours mentioned in the FAQ link is out of date). I guess that and the recent purchase requirements are to prevent (or at least limit) key stores that buy on sale and sell at lower prices the rest of the year.

Oh, I just tried with a low cost one I like (Little Bug) that never goes on sale and you can get multiples of games not on sale but as you say only one per purchase. I guess that is connected to the one code per purchase thing.
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Ice_Mage:
If you look at the thread about gift cards not working it doesn't seem to be GOG's restrictions but rather cards sold in the US that can't be used internationally due to the card issuer's restrictions. GOG could get around this with a US based payment processor (which would also let me get rid of paypal without paying my debit card's 2% international transaction fee) but I'm not sure of the pros and cons of that from their perspective.
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