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From the GOG newsletter: "A note about your GOG Patrons subscription"
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Yeah, they're so great for... not charging their monthly donation subscription twice?
... For giving everyone of them the month for free because they messed up their billing.
Also if I may add, having followed GOG for some 9 years now, it always seemed to me like their worst side is transparency/communications, only starting to change in recent years but weakly so. Having them share the information openly, even if by newsletter, is to me quite the improvement already.
A free month of... access to a discord server?
I can't imagine GOG is losing much
Doesn't change the fact that it's a decent move. "Sorry guys we didnt bill you when expected so now we just wont bill you at all until the next interval".
You had to scroll through a lot on your linked site to get to the part that you copied... It is not a service, it is more of a donation. Hence the name "Patron" I assume.
I'm pretty sure I knew that already. The other guy said they got a month "for free," which begs the question "what are you getting?"
Nothing material in the sense that you imply. Access to the community, that's it.
Thanks, but I'm pretty sure I already knew that too
Great! Now put all the pieces together :)
Let me tell you, you're a real valuable member of the community, telling me what I already said twice and offering nothing new to the conversation. Thanks for taking the time to read each comment thoroughly before posting.
Hehe yikes
You were wrong and now you're barking at some other thing, a bit pathetic isn't it? It's not life threatening to say you misunderstood. It happens to all of us.
It's because he has a small penis and being a big dick online helps him forget about it for a moment.
Don't ask me how I know. :/
Have i misunderstood. They wouldn't have been charging it twice. They messed up the billing so their options were charge for the missed one or don't charge. Not charge twice....
Presumably, if they didn't give everyone affected a "free month" of access to a discord server, they would charge them for the month where there was a mistake and then again for the current month. They'd be charging twice now to make up for the fact that some people weren't charged earlier.
What? The message literally says they will not be charging for the missed month
Why is everyone in this thread telling me what I already said?
You ever stop to consider that perhaps you're the one having issues communicating with everybody else?
I see this like people making comments without reading a linked article in a post: you already think you know what it says so you don't bother actually reading anything to make sure you're right. I don't think it really matters what I say if people aren't even going to bother reading it.
So rather than admit you might have been wrong, you invented a situation where you were right
It was me explaining how GOG are the good guys, for not charging twice, for their monthly donation subscription.
It's objectively the right thing to do, but it shouldn't even matter because anyone donating to a for-profit company should be financially secure enough to handle a late withdrawal from their account.
So again, while GOG not charging people on the donation subscription plan is the right thing to do, GOG doesn't provide much (if anything) of value for that subscription in the first place.