Posted December 29, 2012
I'm not in any way affiliated with GOG.com or its staff but it is just my duty to warn you about the practices at greenmangaming.com.
They currently advertise a lot of bargain offers and have a 30% voucher for no-one-knows which titles.
"A 30% voucher is available across a great range of
PC Download titles* - snap it up quickly as it
expires on Thursday 3rd January 2013 at 12GMT.
* PC Download games only, some titles may
be excluded. Excludes titles on Cash Back or
GMG Credit promotions. Cannot be used in
conjunction with another voucher.
Voucher expires 03/01/13 at 12:00 GMT"
Guess, where you can't apply the voucher! Yes, usually the titles you want to buy. Later on it tells you, it won't apply to special offers. I don't know what they are, but probably everything.
Then they had Deus Ex GOTY Edition on discount for less than 2€ without an end date and just took it out without notification (Hello GOG aka 'ONLY UNTIL JAN 3' you do the same, I know). You couldn't buy it per PayPal. It was impossible for some mystical reason. Before that they wanted all of my data (address, phone number and so forth).
Summary:
* No proper discount end dates (like GOG).
* Unreliable payment.
* Data-hungry.
* Shady discount conditions.
After that you would still have to deal with Capsule, their own software, but I won't find out how bad that is.
Stay away from GMG!
They currently advertise a lot of bargain offers and have a 30% voucher for no-one-knows which titles.
"A 30% voucher is available across a great range of
PC Download titles* - snap it up quickly as it
expires on Thursday 3rd January 2013 at 12GMT.
* PC Download games only, some titles may
be excluded. Excludes titles on Cash Back or
GMG Credit promotions. Cannot be used in
conjunction with another voucher.
Voucher expires 03/01/13 at 12:00 GMT"
Guess, where you can't apply the voucher! Yes, usually the titles you want to buy. Later on it tells you, it won't apply to special offers. I don't know what they are, but probably everything.
Then they had Deus Ex GOTY Edition on discount for less than 2€ without an end date and just took it out without notification (Hello GOG aka 'ONLY UNTIL JAN 3' you do the same, I know). You couldn't buy it per PayPal. It was impossible for some mystical reason. Before that they wanted all of my data (address, phone number and so forth).
Summary:
* No proper discount end dates (like GOG).
* Unreliable payment.
* Data-hungry.
* Shady discount conditions.
After that you would still have to deal with Capsule, their own software, but I won't find out how bad that is.
Stay away from GMG!