Re: GOG Summer Sale (and ELEK)

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From: shawn
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:53

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On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:51:49 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>GOG.Com has started their summer sale.
>
>Some okay deals - I just grabbed SWAT4 - and you get a free game
>(Rebel Galaxy) with your first purchase. 
>
>More interestingly, they added a bunch of new games to their
>GOG-Connect service, so you can transfer (duplicate) more games from
>Steam to DRM-free GOG if you want. I still think GOGConnect makes no
>financial sense for GOG to offer, but it's great for us customers ;-)

GOG Connect makes sense if it gets customers to play more GOG games.
At least the hope is that if you are playing a game from GOG (and
maybe through GOG Galaxy) that you will think of GOG when you next go
to purchase a game. If they keep doing it then they must believe it is
somewhat effective.

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