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Posted January 04, 2013
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InkPanther: Why use Twitter? Sure, it's good as a secondary/backup place for announcements or for getting attention of new potential customers. I mean come on! They have entire website with forums to communicate with us.
All the cool kids are doing it.

They want to be cool, don't they?
Posted January 04, 2013
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Leroux: I'm no expert on these things, but if they like to use Twitter for smaller announcements, wouldn't it be possible to include a window with a Twitter feed on the GOG frontpage or something? Or at least make a sticky for minor announcements here in the forums?

Anyway, I'm curious, will GOG get back to the old release/announcement schedule (12 noon GMT) or permanently keep the one from the promo (3 p.m. GMT)?
The idea with the Twitt-feed Box(maybe not on frontpage but on community page) is nice!
And the question with the time interests me too! Plz the old time. Cant handle to wait till 16 CET every TUE/THU
Posted January 04, 2013
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Aningan: This really is the kind of thing that is by far best suited for Twitter. I mean come on! You want a front page announcement that there will be no promo this weekend??
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Leroux: I'm no expert on these things, but if they like to use Twitter for smaller announcements, wouldn't it be possible to include a window with a Twitter feed on the GOG frontpage or something? Or at least make a sticky for minor announcements here in the forums?

Anyway, I'm curious, will GOG get back to the old release/announcement schedule (12 noon GMT) or permanently keep the one from the promo (3 p.m. GMT)?
Should be back to 11pm GMT, I'm pretty sure.
Posted January 04, 2013
Gog policy is that you're either on their tweeter, or blue birds occasionally crap on your head.
Posted January 04, 2013
Well, this will actually give me time to play some games this weekend. Hotline Miami weekend promo would've been nice though. :D
Posted January 04, 2013
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Aningan: This really is the kind of thing that is by far best suited for Twitter. I mean come on! You want a front page announcement that there will be no promo this weekend??
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InkPanther: The website is the first place anybody is going to look for information/announcments/news. Users are here. The community is here.
What are you basing that statement on?
GOG has 49,263 follower on Facebook and 35,798 on Twitter. Now, I check GOG daily, basically at work I always have a tab open with GOG, and I just don't have the feeling that 50k people are here.

And let's not forget that for Facebook and Twitter you don't even to go to GOG's respective page (not sure for Twitter, I have an account but not using it). If you're following them, you simply get the announcements on your page. You don't need to actively look for the GOG announcements. Just open Facebook to look at some other stuff and boom, GOG announcement in your face!
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Posted January 04, 2013
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Aningan: And let's not forget that for Facebook and Twitter you don't even to go to GOG's respective page (not sure for Twitter, I have an account but not using it). If you're following them, you simply get the announcements on your page. You don't need to actively look for the GOG announcements. Just open Facebook to look at some other stuff and boom, GOG announcement in your face!
I never visit the twitter page. I have SilverBird installed as an extension for my chrome browser and when a tweet comes up, it shows me the tweet without visiting any page :)
Posted January 04, 2013
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Aningan: Just open Facebook to look at some other stuff and boom, GOG announcement in your face!
If people don't use facebook, they have to actively search for the facebook news page for GOG, or bookmark it.

If others are like me, they want nothing to do with social network sites, and will avoid them at all costs. So they would miss information such as this.

My own fault, but i stick with the GOG forums for my info about GOG.
Posted January 04, 2013
Hasn't literally everything been discounted up until yesterday?!

Why another promo now? It's not like GOGs catalogue is so big, that you can lose track of it.
Posted January 04, 2013
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Aningan: Just open Facebook to look at some other stuff and boom, GOG announcement in your face!
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gameon: If people don't use facebook, they have to actively search for the facebook news page for GOG, or bookmark it.

If others are like me, they want nothing to do with social network sites, and will avoid them at all costs. So they would miss information such as this.

My own fault, but i stick with the GOG forums for my info about GOG.
I didn't say that you or anyone else should use Facebook. I'm not one to advocate for it's use. I was just explaining how it works with that sentence.

And I was just responding to claims that the majority of GOG's customers would be on the forums. I have serious doubts about that as I mentioned in my post.
Posted January 04, 2013
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gameon: If people don't use facebook, they have to actively search for the facebook news page for GOG, or bookmark it.

If others are like me, they want nothing to do with social network sites, and will avoid them at all costs. So they would miss information such as this.

My own fault, but i stick with the GOG forums for my info about GOG.
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Aningan: I didn't say that you or anyone else should use Facebook. I'm not one to advocate for it's use. I was just explaining how it works with that sentence.

And I was just responding to claims that the majority of GOG's customers would be on the forums. I have serious doubts about that as I mentioned in my post.
Fair enough. To be honest the blue mods do feed us the info we need, whether they say it first, or whether they are prompted into it like with this thread, we do find out eventually.
Posted January 04, 2013
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Aningan: Just open Facebook to look at some other stuff and boom, GOG announcement in your face!
And what about those of us who don't live our lives on Facebook?

The fact of the matter is, if you want to know what's going on with GOG, the one place you certainly won't find out is anywhere on GOG.com. You can't tell me you think that's a sensible state of affairs?
Posted January 04, 2013
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Aningan: What are you basing that statement on?
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Just open Facebook to look at some other stuff and boom, GOG announcement in your face!
Of course I don't have any numbers. But it's the first thing in the world that hops into my mind - when I can see there's no usual stuff happening on the website, I expect to find some info about it the same place where that stuff should have showed up (I'm pretty sure I've made enormous amount of mistakes in that sentence). Why should open Facebook or Twitter pages to see what's going on?
It's just simple thing - I open GOG.com, there's nothing, I'm looking for details why. And going to Twitter or FB isn't the most natural or obvious thing to me.
Posted January 04, 2013
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gameon: If others are like me, they want nothing to do with social network sites, and will avoid them at all costs. So they would miss information such as this.
It looks like I'm not the last person like that in the world!
Posted January 04, 2013
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gameon: If others are like me, they want nothing to do with social network sites, and will avoid them at all costs. So they would miss information such as this.
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Novotnus: It looks like I'm not the last person like that in the world!
Nice to meet you too :)
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