Why is gog turning on every time the "Promotions and hot deals" thing and spams my email???

Am i not buying enough????

I will leave gog if this continues~!

Have you claimed the free games last month? This could be the reason why it turns on again and again.

I keep getting stupid emails too. I immediately turn it off after i redeem the game.

Just GoG being buggy. Seems to be getting worse.

Whenever I receive an e-mail of no interest from a trusted source, I just delete it and move on because I'm not a baby.

What foad01 said. Uncheck it here: https://www.gog.com/en/account/settings/subscriptions

It's not a bug though. Whenever you redeem a free game, you're also opting back in to receiving the marketing emails.

Agreed and their support seems to be understaffed to responsively address the customer problems that result from their buggy code.

At this point, I'm not sure I feel confident buying from the website anymore honestly. Given two recent support requests (one where I had to get in touch separately with the dev to get undownloadable offline installers fixed otherwise I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been resolved and another where games disappeared from my library that is still pending... I'll see how long), I'm starting to think I might have to reassess purchasing games here.

I'm just no longer confident I'll have access to what I'm paying for.

Yep things go adrift at times, and are somewhat wacky right now, what with multiple copies of the same email for some of us. One person even got 15 copies of the same email.

Then sometimes now I get a silly popup asking me if I am sure I want to leave the current GOG web page, which is very pornish of them. But even sillier, was the fact I was just scrolling the page not closing it. Same thing has happened maybe a dozen times to me now, just ridiculous and totally unnecessary to have that type of popup.

It's weird. GOG clearly gets more games every year, more money, more customers. One could think it would be very logical to hire more real people for support of "the hand that feeds you" and buys the games, to satisfy a customer, to not make 'em go away in disappointment to the service like Steam. I won't even mention the fact GOG's "quality control" has degraded significantly. Wasting time on manual deletion instead of working on the job or spending time with kids, what an adult way of doing!

Ignoring an issue doesn't equal an adult, dealing with the issue's roots, whatever hard these are, is; At times may go as high as class action lawsuits and all the expensive complicated shenanigans. In theory (just a theory) if there was passed a EU-wide law on preventing ad-spamming to death for companies like GOG sp. z o.o. without an explicit approval of a customer (i.g. on the same level like credit cards and banks work, kind of) and not re-enabling it in a weird fashion with "freebies," this could resolve the issue, probably (in reality is extremely unlikely to happen, let's be honest). That what's of a big concern. GOG seems to drift in this direction more and more over time, because nobody stops its drifting and it thinks "that's OK."

These threads always make me laugh.

It very clearly states that you're signing up to a newsletter in return for receiving a game.

Even if there was such a law, what GoG have done would be legal because you have explicitly consented to receive marketing emails, in return for which you have received a free game. They even make it super clear by referencing the marketing emails before the game in the text that explains what you're clicking.

Of course, if anyone doesn't want to receive marketing communications (and can't be bothered to deactivate them), then don't sign up to them in the first place.

I agree on the stupid pop-up (well, I'm not quite sure that's the right word as it's not in a new window) that comes up on the main page though. That's an annoyance that actually makes it harder to shop.

In short, Gamer77845, we can't change GOG, try to make a separate Email for it, disable 2FA, and solved.

Well, thanks for partial counter before I thought to counter myself after 19 minutes. In the end the prime issue is GOG's "attitude." Laws are not rarely include different kinds of loopholes, even good ones, intentionally or not. But hey, if the theoretical law happened, maybe it could've changed something, that's certainly could be better than doing nothing (however, I am not in the place that can do that).

Simpler: A separate eMail exclusively for GOG, disable its Email-bound 2FA, and then let's the spam flow if the higher-ups imagine it's important, to such a customer it will have zero effect. GOG has the uppermentioned tendency to re-enable on getting a "free" game and may or may not add other conditions, this way fully cancels anything GOG does or will try to do to spamify.

Ha-ha-ha, so true!!! +1

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Does the VPN have a new location now?

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