Of course it matters. It matters because GOG doesn't know what you have in your other game libraries.

Hint: Go here and ask for a copy *cough*
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway

Edit: Damn ninjas :D

BETRAYAL! I was supposed to get a random get, but instead I got a random game! Why are the mystery games for 3$ not all Witcher 3 and Fallout 4? This is bullshit! You're tearing me apart GOG!

Seriously guys, those threads about the mystery sale are getting more and more pathetic. The fuck are you expecting? You know you're buying something random, stop being surprised that something random isn't something that you want. If it was up to me half the mystery boxes would only have a picture of the entire Norwich City Council, to teach you a lesson.

Matters a lot, actually, as the random selection is biased to prioritze games you don't have in your account. If you didn't have Torchlight here, then of course it's going to be in the higher priority list of games you'd have a chance of getting.

I already own Fallout 4 and Witcher 3, so I wouldn't have been happy with those either. What I would have been happy with is some rare but interesting indie game.

Were you hanging out with cyberchief.979, by any chance?

Then buy one. Fuck's sake.

You should have tried the pinatas then.

Or (!) buy the indie game you want.

Seriously, the draw wasn't for a game you'd enjoy, a hidden gem or whatever. It was as stated in the FAQ for a random game between $7 and $35. That's what you got. So your decision to "warn others" is in fact a good one: your post is a good warning to read the rules before buying something you don't know.

If you looked about a bit you'd have even seen a thread with a list of games others have gotten so far. So you could see what to expect.

Here are some discounts where you know what you're getting, no mystery involved:

http://www.gog.com/games##sort=bestselling&price=discounted&page=1

I'll take your sage advice under consideration :P

However, this thread is about GOG's questionable choice of mystery sale titles.

I don't gamble by principle but I can understand OP's frustration, albeit for a different reason. Torchlight just so happens to be one of my personal most disliked games and I certainly wouldn't want to gamble that one. I paid $3.79 for Torchlight during a sale so getting it for $3 isn't a terribly bad deal but since most people already have it, it's probably not easy to give this code away even as a gift.

Please, I am a cheapskate not a beggar. I would never feel entitled to get free games. But I would lament the fact that I missed one. I know, not the best characteristic one can have.

I'm with you. I paid about 4 bucks for it waayyyyyy back and ended up feeling I'd overpaid when I tried to play it.

Ha, that's more like it! ;)

Well if you want to quote me the rules, I'll have you know that the rules in the FAQ literally state they prioritize games you don't *own*, which is not at all the same thing as games you don't happen to have in your GOG account. Scraping your game lists on other platforms with a web crawler is neither impossible nor even improbable, so I assumed there was a step where you filled out a form with your credentials and they actually checked.

I could have of course done more research, but GOG was simply a company I trusted. I thought if they put games on a list for people to buy *blind*, then they must be extremely confident in their selection and have surely taken the relative rarity of games into account.

I was obviously mistaken to trust them. Don't make the same mistake!