On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 09:00:29 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 8/2/2025 8:56 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:49:04 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<[email protected]> wrote:

Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't

IMPORTANT NOTE!

It turns out you _can't_ pick and choose from the selection. Pick one
and the whole bunch are added to your library. So if you just wanted,
say, "Postal 2" you can't just get that one without getting the rest
too.

This was NOT made clear on the website (a problem GOG has repeatedly
faced). Still, I should have checked myself before hitting SEND. I
apologize for misleading people with the initial post.

They are still free aren't they? And you can just not install the ones
you aren't interested in, right?

Yes... Um... that's exactly what I'm doing too!

I certainly wouldn't have *bought* a lot of these games. That's my story
and I'm sticking to it.

(Ugh. That sounded better in my head)

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On 8/2/2025 8:56 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:49:04 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't

IMPORTANT NOTE!

It turns out you _can't_ pick and choose from the selection. Pick one
and the whole bunch are added to your library. So if you just wanted,
say, "Postal 2" you can't just get that one without getting the rest
too.

This was NOT made clear on the website (a problem GOG has repeatedly
faced). Still, I should have checked myself before hitting SEND. I
apologize for misleading people with the initial post.

They are still free aren't they? And you can just not install the ones
you aren't interested in, right?

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:33:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

I take more issue with the IMPLEMENTATION of the offer, where on the
page it _looks_ as if you can pick and choose, but it's a false
choice. GOG is infamous for these poor design choices, whether its
their spam-like emails or this free offer or various other mis-steps
they've made over the years. I don't think any of it is malicious but >essentially forcing games people may not want into their library is
not a good way to win good will. It also doesn't give people
confidence in GOG's other decisions.

I agree, the implementation was not the best.

But what is done is done. I now need to put the games I got from you
at Christmas on hold to play "Helping the Hotties" and "Lust Theory
Season 1".

Priorities Spalls, priorities.

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