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GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship (www.avclub.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Not working for me, just getting error messages when trying to redeem ...

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 41 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Same Edit : found a workaround by looking up the issue. Go to this page https://www.gog.com/cart/add/1486951595

It should add the Freedom to Buy Games as a free item in your shopping basket, which you can then add to your account

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 19 points 4 weeks ago

Worked for me, thanks. I will jerk off in your honour

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 7 points 4 weeks ago

this worked. was already logged in. loaded that link in a different tab, went back to the other and refreshed. saw the cart had something, loaded it and was able to check out.

[–] rotkehle@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

works for me. thanks

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's their servers being hammered at the moment.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Really taking a pounding.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 weeks ago

Don't worry, step-brother is on the case and currently extracting the servers from the washing machine.

[–] AnotherSmutAccount@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

It might be that there is a region lock or something. It only worked for me after connecting via VPN to the NL. And then it still complained but the games showed up in the library

[–] carbs@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

If any one of the games are banned in your country, you will get an error.

This page lists what's banned where: https://support.gog.com/hc/articles/29306002386845

Two of the games were banned in my country, so a quick VPN to the Netherlands and the "purchase" went through.

I did log a support ticket with GOG and they referred me to the KB article above.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Makes sense
My country bans NSFW so i had to vpn my way to UK
i didnt get the offer for the porn games but for Postal 2