Thanks for the giveaway.

Had Hellpoint on my wishlist for a while here as I already own it on Steam. I find Souls-like games interesting but frustrating, so it was less of a priority for me. I feel kinda guilty claiming it for free as Cradle Games is an indie dev and I want them to succeed as well as see GOG as a viable storefront.

Wow, Amazing! Thank you! :D

It's not, it's very simple why.
It's because it does not change the fact that you are sharing something, it only changes which account you share it from.
Also, it's pretty hilarious that majority seems to think that the only thing they get with this is the email address.
This isn't some sort of gaming news site where you subscribe to a newsletter - where doing so would net them mostly the email address (aside from IP and script based analytics data) - here you are doing this while logged in to whatever account you are using and EVERYTHING resolving around telemetry of that account can amount to general "consumer profile" shared with "partners" - and if you don't use VPN, different browser agent, and a bunch of other obfuscation methods when "hopping accounts" then it's very easy to associate info from one account with info from another - and before you say "they cannot" - watch them do that under guise of "telemetry for the sake of better user experience" - and since GOG does not follow many privacy rules in general then they are pretty likely to aggregate such "similarly looking" data from same IP address.
Also, pixel trackers, and 3rd party telemetry/analytics scripts being loaded within those html-based emails.

The exact scope of what is being collected is not specified anywhere (which fact is a GDPR violation by itself).
And it's definitely much more than just email address even solely because of the fact of account login.
There also seems to be general lack of a form for data deletion which the lack of it is a GDPR violation btw.

Actually, I am doing so because it's way faster than using GOG's BB code.
The explanation is that simple.

Only for those people who *somehow* get offended by this.

Do you REALLY think this could be the only reason for someone to write like this?
I got profoundly tired of using BB code on specificly GOG forums due to it's cumbersomeness and the fact that GOG's CMS does not auto complete those when you forget even one (if you do then CMS will just either hang indefinitely and not post your post or it will screw the entire message from open tag onwards if closing tag is missing), so I eventually mostly stopped using it in favor of using capitals for the same purpose.

I don't know in what country you attended those, but such things were certainly not taught in my schools, certainly not at the time when I attended them anyway (which was a LONG time ago).
Also at the time when I was in those internet at private households was not as popular in that specific country (in which I was then) as it is now.

Don't worry, GOG forum community will gladly do that in GOG's stead by mass-downvoting you (and people with same point of view) solely because you have a different take on privacy than them ;)

What are you talking about?
The first 2 games definitely do work on Windows systems in between XP and 10.
And if they don't work on 10 then it's not really devs fault per se - devs made these games very long time ago - and it's Microsoft that keeps dropping libraries people are actually using and need them for running older software.

Yes, well, as long as there will not be any platform enforced guidelances in regards to that then that predicament will continue.

OK, so does GOG have a track record of selling personal data to partners? And what's the worse that those companies can do with my profile and data? Send me more ads that I already block through multiple extensions? Similar to the GOG Galaxy 2.0 Telemetry thread, no one has provided any sufficient answers on this nor are there any stats or proof to back it up.

In my field, I can list a thousand different elements of failure to show why you wouldn't enter a building to scare people from ever entering one, but the likelihood of any building to code just collapsing out of nowhere is very small. All I'm hearing are nightmare scenarios through fearmongering and idealism and while that's one way to convince uneducated masses, that stuff doesn't work on younger people today.

No one is getting offended by the style. It's irritating for readers and again, it does you disservice in your ability to persuade since it feels like you're forcing your opinion down people's throats. But you do you - if people think less of your opinion because of your writing style, that's your loss. Have you ever consider the idea that words do not have to be emphasized all the time? Dozens of other users get away with not capitalizing words in every post and their main messages aren't lost in the bulk of time. Well, time to refresh your etiquette to the 21st century; I learned this stuff back in 2003. You wouldn't ever emphasize words like that in your daily work emails, would you? (If you did, I honestly feel terrible for your co-workers and clients.)

We still have two full weeks of Summer Sale left, along with more game giveaways and more Flash Sales upcoming!

If they gave away Cyberpunk 2077 it would be the ultimate advertising move to promote GOG and rebuild their reputation, and in the process they would break the internet. It would make sense if they were working on a full-bodied paid expansion and thought that by now Cyberpunk has reached its peak sales.

Ok ok, let me dream.

I mean don't give me those games! Not just because I have them (at least F2), or I played the last ounce of ketchup out of them (definitely both F1 and F2), or that I wouldn't be able to play Cyberpunk (none can).

I mean there are plenty of games in GoG's library I'd PAY FOR, IF they were compatible to win10, the sole still standing PC operation system.
Those are currently absolutely just dead weight on GoG, on out library, and in general.

There's so much ignorance in your post that it's a bit awkward to read.
So then what, maybe GOG should stop selling some of games they currently have in catalouge just because some of them don't work on Win 10 because of M$ fault?

"Solely standing"
Please...
Win 10 is hardly the only Windows currently used now.
A LOT of people still use Win 8/Win 7 or even older Windows systems.
Just because something is not working for YOU does not mean others should be cut off from a possibility of obtaining it.

Also, maybe you have played those games but many people haven't.
If it does not fit your desires - to bad - but many other people would be glad to get those games.

If the privacy policy (which is btw very incomplete) is of use then yes.
About the "selling" part, honestly, I don't know and you won't either unless you have undercover insider in GOG.
But they are (according to their privacy policy) transferring data to undisclosed partners (since their privacy policy is written very vaguely in a way that gives to much room for interpretation and therefore to much freedom of usage for GOG itself).

Basically you are saying that it is in your opinion not a problem (in general) because it's not a problem for YOU, nor you care, plus you don't ACTUALLY know how far this data can be used.
If you want to know how profiling info can be used - and for that matter how it is shared between different "partners" of Google who happen to use things such as Google Analytics and Google-made marketing-email embedded telemetry scripts I suggest you:
1.Read Google's privacy policy (specificly for those toolsets/APIs) and rules for those (you may have trouble finding some for some of those services as they may sometimes be shared only to people who have partnerships with Google)
2.Read some actual books, not fearmongering theories, just actual researches. They do exist.

The scope of how profiling data is being used is rapidly enriching over time - simply put some data that you deem "irrelevant" now may become used in very relevant way (for you) many years from now - many privacy conscious people want to minimize the amount of data anyone has on them.
But then again, there are people who just don't care.
But bashing others solely because they do care is just plain wrong.

Profiling data can be used very far, so far in fact that you would have trouble tracking how far your data landed.
Minimizing the amount of data collected from an individual is something majority these days does not seem to care about, people just don't seem to care about their privacy.
But I care, and bashing me (you or anyone else) for personal privacy choices is so immature and BS it's a bit unbelievable people doing it have such low (or none) shame.

I think not entering a building based on the assumption that *technically* there is non zero chance for it collapsing randomly may be fearmongering and a bunch of nonsense.
It does not however invalidate valid concerns.

Here I would like to note that my (or whoever elses) inability to explain something well enough for you (or whoever else) to understand or your inability to understand my already provided (by me) explanation does not automatically mean I am incorrect nor does it invalidate my actual knowledge.
Many people, especially online, have this weird "you fail to explain/prove therefore you are wrong" attitude whereas in fact it is very wrong and it's not how it works.
Knowledge/understanding does not automatically come with ability to teach others those very things associated.
I may fail to explain to you importance of privacy, how data can be used, and how people should not be forced to "pay with data" for "free" things, but my failure does not invalidate validity and existence of the points.

Well yes, because they are already fed with the biggest nonsense one can find, with BS shoved into them since young age, so then when they eventually (hopefully) meet someone that is actually right they will just fight and ignore him since they are to deep in their comfort zones to be able to accept the fact that they were taught wrongly and therefore they are far less capable of accepting changes.

Well what do you suggest then?

Have you ever considered I wasn't always doing it in these (specificly GOG's) forums?
Over time when using it I noticed that many common forum behaviours don't exist on GOG forums and others are twisted.
GOG forums users seem to have different forum mentality.
Over time, with people skipping my text and getting wrong conclusions, I intensified the use of capitals to make them SEE things that they otherwise kept missing.
Maybe it's just my lack of luck but this is my experience here and the consequences in my different writing patterns follow that.

It's not even remotely about a "lack of net etiquette".
I do have the thing.
I just know that major amount of users in these specific (once again: specificly GOG forums) pay less attention than on many other forums and some form of highlighting here seems to be required more than on some other forums.
And this has literally nothing to do with my manners.

Ah, I envy your ability to casually ignore relevant parts of your own comparisons :P
In a work space there are rules you have to abide to, when you are for example required to pay attention to the ENTIRE email with all the wording in it to the smallest bit.
Whereas on the forums, especially apparently GOG forums, people pay little to no attention to exact wording used and often even skip entire segments only to then accuse somebody wrongly or come to wrong conclusions and shout at somebody because of that.

Don't worry, they are getting their money from GOG for sure, plus, if you want you can donate a copy to one who will have missed the giveaway.

I'm posting both for thank you for testing the multiplayer and to bring this to attention of more people.

Hard to find relevant info about the game in this (insert favorite adjective here) thread.

Read this: 10/10 would unsubscribe again.

I've haven't been following this game, but it seems to be receiving middling reviews. Why is that? Is it actually bad? Or are people just bashing the game unfairly?

Joke's on you. Each time I will 10/10 unsubscribe. :-)

Fair enough.

But on the other hand, those same emails which you interpret as 'spam,' many other customers would not interpret as spam.

For a lot of customers, the GOG newsletter is useful for keeping us informed of new releases and/or new sales and/or exclusive discounts.