Good Old Games still oldies but goodies

[Hawke64]

13 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

Fourth GOG giveaway during this winter sale.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/vambrace_cold_soul

I've claimed it and got a gift certificate that expires in February. Happy to send if anyone wants the game and missed the giveaway.

[Mamoulian War]

Amerzone, a classic adventure game for grabs on GOG

https://www.gog.com/en/game/amerzone_the_explorer_legacy

Also System Shock 2 Remaster is on preorder.

[Malcador]

On 3/22/2025 at 8:39 AM, Mamoulian War said:

Amerzone, a classic adventure game for grabs on GOG

https://www.gog.com/en/game/amerzone_the_explorer_legacy

Also System Shock 2 Remaster is on preorder.

All I recall about that game Amerzone was a PCG review savaging it.  But I guess can't beat the price...although Still Life 2 taught me that free can be too expensive

[melkathi]

The survey about a GOG subscription service is terrible.

You can't pick the option "f off, I hate subscription services".

Instead they go "even if you do not find the service interesting what do you think other people could find interesting".

In the end people like myself will quit the survey, so they will only get a limited feedback that will show a 100% interest in the service. And as a bonus they will get some people who will be irritated their time was wasted with a stupid survey (as demonstrated by this post).

[Zoraptor]

Dunno, I was kind of going to ignore the survey but now I feel like I see what's up

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They should get non completion figures, ie people who started and stopped before completion. They will also get when they stopped. I imagine they will also get some, uh, feedback in other ways on the idea.

In the end, it's a bad survey and a bad idea.

There is a section that let's you rate the idea more directly. That should have come before the 'pick three things five times that you think other people might like' section though for sure if they want an honest response since that section was bad. All 'imagine what other people like' sections are bad on principle and worthless statistically. Not a good approach even if you liked the idea. 

As it is it does rather feel like an MBA put it together to confirm the appeal of their brilliant ideas, but personally I tend to think it's just GOG being cackhanded again- let us not forget their marketing team thought saying their service was shutting down was a great idea at one point. The vibe is more overenthusiastic intern to me. 

A competent MBA would, of course, outsource to a controlled focus group to make sure they got the results they wanted and with minimal backlash.

I do rather like them making the click through test (the question that determines whether people are reading the questions or answering randomly) extremely obvious instead of asking the same question multiple times with slightly different wording.