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Posted May 01, 2013
Enter for a chance to receive a bundle of 66 indie games!

With today's addition of FEZ the number of indie games in GOG.com catalog amounts to 66. It's a nice sounding number (about 2/3rds of 100!), so we thought celebration is in order. What better way is there to celebrate games, than by giving away free games? (Here's a hint: there is no better way.) So, for the next 6 days everyone gets the chance to enter our sweepstakes--and the prizes are truly sweet. One lucky person will receive an enormous bundle of all the 66 indie games from our catalog. Eleven more people will be awarded 6 indie games of their choice each. Here's how you enter:

Do you see the entry form below? All you need to do is provide us with your valid email address. That's it, you're in! You get exactly one entry in the sweepstakes. Optionally, you can make your chances better by doing two things for us: you can tweet about our sweepstakes for an extra entry (there's a Twitter field already filled out for you--if you don't want to tweet, make sure it's blank before submitting your entry), and notify your Facebook friends (a pop-up will pop-up upon completing the form). You'll be awarded an extra entry for every friend that enters from your referral. All this social-sharing is purely optional, of course.

Note: the sweepstakes entry is now closed. Winners will be contacted soon.
Post edited May 02, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted May 01, 2013
That's what You get for meddling with a thing that's called a WooBox. Of course there's gonna be tons of confusion and chaos.
Good thing I don't go for indies on gog anyway. If the prize was the whole classic catalogue my address would've been full of woo by now.
Posted May 01, 2013
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Adzeth: I have a theory. Bold text is invisible. Let's try it.
Note: because the way the form works has created a little confusion: entering your email does, indeed, enter you to win. The form then auto-forwards on to Facebook, but you have no obligation to actually log in or authorize it. Your email address is entry enough.
I wonder where I copy pasted that text from. :p
We still end up giving our e-mail addresses to a "social media marketing company", which is never a good thing. Why did they have to involve a third party at all when GOG already has the means to run a contest using their own infrastructure? They could even still have the optional Twitter/Facebook "please advertise for us" stuff if they wanted without using something like WooBox, but for some reason they chose not to.
Post edited May 01, 2013 by cogadh
Posted May 01, 2013
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Adzeth:
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wizisi2k: the 1 point is that after I hit enter it prompts me with a login screen so I cannot know if my entry was accepted. That is the problem we are complaining about
It's badly conveyed information on both fronts. The thing doesn't inform you that you have been entered to win after you enter your email. Your earlier post doesn't convey the idea presented in this post very well either :p

I replied to it in a suboptimal manner because people's strong reactions to things flabbergast me so.
Posted May 01, 2013
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wizisi2k: the 1 point is that after I hit enter it prompts me with a login screen so I cannot know if my entry was accepted. That is the problem we are complaining about
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Adzeth: It's badly conveyed information on both fronts. The thing doesn't inform you that you have been entered to win after you enter your email. Your earlier post doesn't convey the idea presented in this post very well either :p

I replied to it in a suboptimal manner because people's strong reactions to things flabbergast me so.
Indeed, it's confusing and I assume that I've entered.

But, I have to say that I'm not a fan of giving people bonus entries for using Twitter. I've complained about it enough times that I don't think Mr. Gog is going to change, but it's really tacky to give rewards for spamming.
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Adzeth: I have a theory. Bold text is invisible. Let's try it.
Note: because the way the form works has created a little confusion: entering your email does, indeed, enter you to win. The form then auto-forwards on to Facebook, but you have no obligation to actually log in or authorize it. Your email address is entry enough.
I wonder where I copy pasted that text from. :p
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cogadh: We still end up giving our e-mail addresses to a "social media marketing company", which is never a good thing. Why did they have to involve a third party at all when GOG already has the means to run a contest using their own infrastructure? They could even still have the optional Twitter/Facebook "please advertise for us" stuff if they wanted without using something like WooBox, but for some reason they chose not to.
I see no mention of any social media marketing companies in any of the conditions. They do use WooBox, but I'm not seeing anything that permits them to share my information with anybody, as long as I don't win.
Post edited May 01, 2013 by hedwards
Posted May 01, 2013
Well, I've entered (I think) but like many others, I don't use facebook or twitter because I'm not a 14 year old.
Posted May 01, 2013
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bansama: Well, I can't send the tweet via that form. Authorized the app via the pop-up, but then nothing =/
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triock: Try another browser. ;)
I did. Doesn't work in Chrome, FireFox, or IE 9 for me.
Posted May 01, 2013
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hedwards: I see no mention of any social media marketing companies in any of the conditions. They do use WooBox, but I'm not seeing anything that permits them to share my information with anybody, as long as I don't win.
WooBox is a social media marketing company. From their own terms:

"To the extent Woobox collects personally identifiable information, it does so solely for the use of its Sponsors and the administration of the Promotions. Woobox limits access to all personally identifiable information gathered within its organization and data is never shared outside of the company, with the exception of the Sponsors of the Promotions in which you decide to participate, or to comply with governmental or legal requests. Woobox may contact you in connection with the Promotions you are a participant and use your personally identifiable information collected from past Promotions when you access future Promotions or utilize the Woobox applications. You may also grant Woobox permissions within Facebook applications running on our platform that allow us to share your activity within our applications on the Facebook platform and post on your behalf. These permissions may or may not be required for you to participate in certain Promotions and you may revoke these permissions at any time in your Facebook privacy settings. You may request that your collected personally identifiable information be deleted from Woobox systems at any time by sending your request to support@woobox.com."

They share our data with "sponsors", which is marketing speak for selling our e-mail addresses and such off to spammers.
Posted May 01, 2013
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hedwards: I see no mention of any social media marketing companies in any of the conditions. They do use WooBox, but I'm not seeing anything that permits them to share my information with anybody, as long as I don't win.
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cogadh: WooBox is a social media marketing company. From their own terms:

"To the extent Woobox collects personally identifiable information, it does so solely for the use of its Sponsors and the administration of the Promotions. Woobox limits access to all personally identifiable information gathered within its organization and data is never shared outside of the company, with the exception of the Sponsors of the Promotions in which you decide to participate, or to comply with governmental or legal requests. Woobox may contact you in connection with the Promotions you are a participant and use your personally identifiable information collected from past Promotions when you access future Promotions or utilize the Woobox applications. You may also grant Woobox permissions within Facebook applications running on our platform that allow us to share your activity within our applications on the Facebook platform and post on your behalf. These permissions may or may not be required for you to participate in certain Promotions and you may revoke these permissions at any time in your Facebook privacy settings. You may request that your collected personally identifiable information be deleted from Woobox systems at any time by sending your request to support@woobox.com."

They share our data with "sponsors", which is marketing speak for selling our e-mail addresses and such off to spammers.
This displeases me greatly. The terms page was apparently broken so that it scrolls off into oblivion making it hard to read. And there was no mention of them sharing the information for reasons other than administrating the contest.

I used to like GOG, but it's become clear that they're every bit as soulless and generally questionable as the other game shops.
Posted May 01, 2013
Well, this can not work:
http://woobox.com/9b9hvh?embed=http://https://secure.gog.test/news/the_raffle_app_testing_site
[url=http://https://secure.gog.test/news/the_raffle_app_testing_site#]http://https://secure.gog.test/news/the_raffle_app_testing_site[/url]

the url does not exist?
Testing Site?
Can also not post to FB

good to know:

You may request that your collected personally identifiable information be deleted from Woobox systems at any time by sending your request to support@woobox.com.
Post edited May 01, 2013 by Daniel Ruf
Posted May 01, 2013
Would it be too late to get GOG to withdraw my entry? I don't want spammers getting my email address.
Posted May 01, 2013
Entered. Thankee kindly!
Posted May 01, 2013
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hedwards: I see no mention of any social media marketing companies in any of the conditions. They do use WooBox, but I'm not seeing anything that permits them to share my information with anybody, as long as I don't win.
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cogadh: WooBox is a social media marketing company. From their own terms:

"To the extent Woobox collects personally identifiable information, it does so solely for the use of its Sponsors and the administration of the Promotions. Woobox limits access to all personally identifiable information gathered within its organization and data is never shared outside of the company, with the exception of the Sponsors of the Promotions in which you decide to participate, or to comply with governmental or legal requests. Woobox may contact you in connection with the Promotions you are a participant and use your personally identifiable information collected from past Promotions when you access future Promotions or utilize the Woobox applications. You may also grant Woobox permissions within Facebook applications running on our platform that allow us to share your activity within our applications on the Facebook platform and post on your behalf. These permissions may or may not be required for you to participate in certain Promotions and you may revoke these permissions at any time in your Facebook privacy settings. You may request that your collected personally identifiable information be deleted from Woobox systems at any time by sending your request to support@woobox.com."

They share our data with "sponsors", which is marketing speak for selling our e-mail addresses and such off to spammers.
I could be wrong, but I think that the term "Sponsors" refer to the the entities running promotions that use Woobox - in this particular case, that would make GOG the Sponsor.

When in doubt, use an alias you can afford to stop using if it gets spammed - requires a little more work, but keeps your inbox(es) clean :-)
Posted May 01, 2013
I would love to get a chance to lose, but I'm not a Facebooker nor a Twitterer. Oh well.
Posted May 01, 2013
I don't care about spam, though I'm not sure whether my entry was accepted. Not that I'm lucky enough to win anything anyway...
Posted May 01, 2013
66 games. :D
WooBox?!
I think I'll pass.
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