You overlooked that the role of CM's is not to know literally everything about a company or a game they listed on storefront years and years ago. Recent product, sure. Shockingly, info can be fed from other department and sources that is incorrect.

P.S

Fancy wording doesn't quite look as cool when you needed to edit it after the fact ;)

Well said

Ok, fair enough. You would know better :). Being a bit more careful about your wording in such cases, rather than sending the wrong message, does not hurt though. Part of the job, I would think.

You got me. I done goofed on my first attempt. But it's better to admit you are wrong and correct your mistake than to persist in it, IMHO.

We have no idea if they asked and were gave the wrong answer lol. Use some of that think juice beyond pointing the finger at person :P

Awfully touchy about this, aren't we?

Dancing about what I am saying, taking jabs... maybe we both had a bad week? :)

In case it was not clear before, I agree with you it was most likely bad wording, but I don't think someone put those words in his mouth, therefore it was his mess to clean up. I'm not up to speed with the issue - if he or EA issued an apology at a later time, then it's fine. Errare humanum est.

What I'm saying is that:

"Hi! I apologize for the delay - I had to check internally about GOG, since I was not aware of their status. It looks like they're not on our list of authorized retailers. In such cases we recommend you reach out to them directly for a refund. Have a nice day!"

would have made it sound a lot less like a guy stating GOG is some sort of shady retailer, but rather a guy being given the wrong info or just simple miscommunication. My 2 cents, using whatever amount of think juice I could muster.

No one is throwing jabs other than your soft wrists flicking out a little, I think you might just have a problem with any form of disagreement? But I hope you're weekend is better than your week apparently was!

either way, rather than dragging it off-topic. It's making a mountain out of a molehill, the topics have already been solved and a quick google search would clear it up either way.

The return of Syndicate and Ultima Underworld is an interesting twist.

It makes me wonder if GOG expressed their displeasure at being called unauthorised and EA brought the games back as a sort of apology/settlement.
I'm not sure whether you could make a real libel case out of it or not, but it seems to me that a company as big as EA suggesting GOG was not a legitimate partner has the real potential to damage GOG's reputation.

Why do you keep ignoring the question about serial keys for SPORE Collection?

I'm still waiting for your answer (and my serial keys).

That's seems to be standard operating procedure for a number of GOG staffers....they often reply once in certain threads and then don't reply to any replies sent their way.
(side note: that same staffer, who is also the head forum staffer, has [iirc] not once replied back to even my PMs to them on various issues)

how do you explain them bringing back ultima underworld and others until september?

That happened after this thread was made....also several posts like post 82 seems to speculate on that a bit.

As for me: I have a theory(shared with me by another gogger) that EA might be trying to saturate the market with copies of those games (note that it's free for ONE MONTH, then will be sold for normal price.....by then most people should have a copy) so that they can justify (due to low if not no sales) pulling them permanently at a later date.

I'd say EA, because even though we all expect them to be awful, but you'd think they'd at least be the kind who would keep tabs on every single monetary outlet they have.

Whereas we should all already expect any decisions made by Sega to be of the pants-on-head 'wat' variety.

Especially since as I already pointed out, Sega has a game here. One game, but that's still enough to explain and justify them listing GOG as a partner.