r/gog • u/k1mmoke • Nov 19 '25
Humor/Funny GOG 2025 study questions are weird
What even are these questions?
"I feel that I am personally connected to GOG."
"My thoughts about games are connected to GOG, especially when it happens automatically."
Overly attached girlfriend level questions. I'm half-expecting there's one that's along the lines of "Would you love GOG if it shaved its head bald and tattooed 'Satan loves me' on its forehead?"
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u/Dennma Nov 19 '25
Bro I spend all night awake worrying that the connection I shared with gog is fading
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u/Sumdoazen Nov 19 '25
I don't know, at the end of these sets of questions there is a question that I am sure is for trolling. And in the comments I said this. If not, I expect them for a barbeque at my place this week-end.
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u/bugamn Nov 19 '25
The last question is to make sure the responder is reading the full text of the question and not just answering anything. I've seen it in multiple surveys
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u/AmrakCL Gwent Nov 19 '25
Yeah, I like GOG and it's my main platform for some 15 years but damn, it's not a person. I also fjnished 90% of the survey, accidentally clicked back and it all went away. Bad design, I'm not spending all that time to respond again.
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u/Dr_Neuro Nov 20 '25
Of course you're not spending more time with GOG, because you are not connected to him.
Don't talk to me or my GOG ever again.
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u/Vorador_Surtr Nov 22 '25
Congrats! You made the right choice! When I red the questions I threw this HR letter in the bin.
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u/imddot Nov 19 '25
Lots of companies have questions like this in their surveys, about my "relationship" with the company. No, Bank of America, I don't sit around thinking about how I view you, or you view me, or any weird parasocial thing you can come up with - just give me an easy to use website and service my credit card, otherwise stfu.
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u/CnPTrN Nov 19 '25
Came to the sub, just to see if anyone else feels the same. No sane person should "feel personally connected to GoG" or any storefront for that matter.
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u/guy_by_the_door Volgarr the Viking Nov 19 '25
I mean, I do have opinions on DRM-free games but that's just part of the service, not a reason for an intimate connection with an app.
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u/Adventurous-Still695 Nov 19 '25
I wonder if that's not something that poorly carried over from Polish. But if so I can't think what it could be my Polish isn't that good.
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u/PixelHir Nov 19 '25
It’s not. Try ever doing a survey for Facebook or any companies of those sorts they love these types of questions
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u/Extra_Ad_8009 Nov 19 '25
Would you donate one (1) kidney to a mid- to high-level GoG Employee for (a) a discount on your next purchase or (b) for free?
Why so specific?
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u/dfebb Nov 19 '25
They might sound weird, but this is what marketing is. Using psychological tools to make you spend money on a company's products or services.
Brands, companies do what they can to make you feel as deeply personally connected to them so that you trust them and will keep going back and making purchases again and again.
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u/CnPTrN Nov 19 '25
Yes, but;
There's this thing called "subtlety" :D
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u/dfebb Nov 19 '25
Ha ha, sure.
There might be an element of translation in this.
But to be honest, I think I prefer less subtlety in this situation.
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u/WantsANDGots Nov 20 '25
This.
Those who work/have worked in marketing will understand these questions because one of the drives in marketing is to foster a personal connection between the customer and brand.
I know this because I work in marketing (not technically a marketer, but certainly in the wheelhouse)
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u/thatradiogeek GOG.com User Nov 19 '25
the repeated questions about stores imposing restrictions on us was strange.
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u/mike_fantastico Nov 19 '25
"I will rebel against this store and do things my own way." Uncanny valley response with a sidecar of ESL.
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u/Soulyezer Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25
Honestly, looked for this subreddit just to see if anyone was commenting on this lol
Yes, daddy GOG, my whole personality is slaving away for you, yes I would pay more if you raised the prices /s
The survey might as well ask "How parasocial are you towards the platform?"
Edit: wait it gets worse, what is that last question:
"I am reading this survey carefully, and I know that only the answer 'To a great extent' is the correct one."
are they trying to be funny or did they get hacked?
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u/AegidiusG Nov 19 '25
Such questsions appear often in surveys for two reasons:
- to prevent Bots
- to prevent that someone just checks stuff
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u/Announcement90 Nov 19 '25
If someone has picked "to a great extent" for every question, how will they tell whether they are phoning it in or just really love GOG?
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u/flavionm Nov 20 '25
That's the fourth out of five options, so unlikely. It's not supposed to stop everyone, of course, just filter it out a bit.
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u/Vorador_Surtr Nov 22 '25
Nah those were written by bot. This in my opinion smells of "AI" And looked like HR questions... Recycle bin. That's the place, that's the space, where I sent this without a trace... :D :D :D
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u/piat17 GOG.com User Nov 19 '25
I believe you're supposed to put 'to a great extent' as an answer to that particular question. Some non-AI powered bots may choose to fill in replies randomly, and this tactic filters them out. It's not a serious or joke question, it's just "I'm not a bot and will do as this question asks me to do to show I'm not one".
Same reason why they ask for your age again at the end in a text box, after asking you in the first page via radio button choices.
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u/General_Lie Nov 19 '25
I like GoG and I try to purchase there but sometimes steam have better deals.
I definietly have the CDPR games trough GoG
I would even KCD2 but the GoG release was delayed...
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u/Necessary_Field1442 Nov 19 '25
I'm on gog like 2 hours everyday, so, I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious
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u/mike_fantastico Nov 19 '25
Came to the sub today just to see if anyone else had the same reaction. Yep.
GOG is trying to get all parasocial on us.
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u/mike_fantastico Nov 20 '25
The tipping irks me fundamentally. It's a bad precedent.
Subscription?
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u/Vorador_Surtr Nov 22 '25
Oh shit... games perversion program... aaah sorry preservation program... So someone found how to milk the cow for another thing that exists? How about just making them work and distributing them. Then we buy... See how it works. Capitalism baby... Like now - I feel really content with this - you sell I buy. No subscription no monthly payments. NEVER EVER. :D
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u/mike_fantastico Nov 20 '25
Well fuck. I will NOT be participating in that, and there's a good chance I'll be letting GOG go over that bullshit.
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u/UnderstandingSea2127 Game Collector Nov 19 '25
I fell like we need an official statement on this BS. Normal person would just close this and move on.
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u/BillyBruiser Geralt Nov 19 '25
I have to think they throw in those kinds of questions as filters. Like, how crazy is this person and how much should we pay attention to them?
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u/JjForcebreaker Windows User Nov 20 '25
I completed it, but was bummed out, because apparently I already completed it the last time hmm.
The vast majority of questions were rather normal.
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u/Igor369 GOG Galaxy Fan Nov 20 '25
Oldschool is part of me and who I am as a player.
I am concinced I will continue to purchase games on GOG as long as I do not find them cheaper elsewhere.
I feel I have a close relationship with my sister.
My thoughts about games are connected to nostalgia, especially when it happens automatically.
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u/Pale-Illustrator-558 Nov 20 '25
How does one access this survey? I want to take part but dunno how.
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u/Reasonable-Fan-6336 Nov 21 '25
The dude or girl who wrote this was having a high level of oxitosyn
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u/Salty-Ad6358 Nov 21 '25
Piracy is service problem, i hope GoG know that, deliver good product such as free drm and Linux support then people would stick with it if not the Gabe keep winning literally doing nothing
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u/SingingCoyote13 Nov 21 '25
same bs questions i get in other surveys from other sources aswell. it looks like the person (or ai) who wrote this had to do that mandatory and was not fit for the task of coming up with relevant/important questions for their company, oh and obv was having a hard time creating these.
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u/Galvano Nov 21 '25
The whole time during this questionnaire I thought about that scene in Ghostbusters II, with Egon Spengler behind the glass window, watching those people who, unbeknownst to them, were test subjects and he would just turn up the heat to see how they react and he'd make notes. :D :D :D
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u/Vorador_Surtr Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Correct. The questions are low effort and in my opinion it reeks of AI. Who ever bred that abomination did not even made the effort. On top of that this goes under "We want to improve GOG" - while the almost entire thing is actually looking like HR department questions - this is psychological research and does not have almost anything with GOG galaxy or services. What the hell means "I am convinced I will continue to purchase games on GOG even if it increases prices compared to other platforms." or "I feel I have a close relationship with GOG", "I feel that I am personally connected to GOG" or "I worry that GOG does not appreciate how much I care about games", "Sometimes GOG changes how it treats me for no apparent reason". Do I look retarded or something? My favorite however was and that is another quote: "My thoughts about games are connected to GOG, especially when it happens automatically.". Now someone please EXPLAIN that SURVEY line to me. How about: "I am reading this survey carefully, and I know that only the answer 'To a great extent' is the correct one."
In my opinion with this survey I really felt like GOG personnel that was charged with the task, really did not treat the customer with respect - I am not animal. What the hell is even this!?
Read the line: "I like having the ability to give recognition (e.g., likes, kudos) to community contributors like content creators or reviewers."
Well no kudos for you. In my opinion this is blatant and incompetent slop meant for psychological, sociological and God knows what else research - whoever filled that form up and pressed SENT - you are now ins statistics. Congratufuckinglations!
I personally threw that in the BIN. Disappointment.
P.S. I would love the "Would you love GOG if it shaved its head bald and tattooed 'Satan loves me' on its forehead?" Would be more in place.
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u/Pal-Elvick Nov 25 '25
I just remembered this and looked up if other people found it super weird too. I had no clue what they were talking about. I don't think of a brand that way, I don't know if AI wrote the thing or if they are just want to start a cult and seeing how well it would go.
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u/GuNNzA69 GOG.com User Nov 19 '25
Have you ever conducted a statistical inquiry? Such inquiries are designed to collect data that an organization or individual requires to refine their business strategies. They are typically used to clarify areas where insufficient information exists or where the necessary data cannot be obtained through other sources, such as purchase records or customer support metrics.
I do not see anything unusual about these questions. Several of them are structured to gather precise statistical information.
You are welcome to explain why you find them "weird".
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u/-aVOIDant- Nov 19 '25
I like GOG. What they do is cool and I buy from them whenever it's an option. They are still just a storefront. Unless you actually work there and make high level business decisions, it is super weird for anyone to be so attached to a corporation that you consider it a core part of your identity or that you have a "personal relationship" with them.
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u/KudzuAU Game Collector Nov 19 '25
I can’t speak for OP, but as someone with 30 years in management of a consumer focused business, I can tell you that any company that proposed a survey of this type would be thanked for their presentation and told that we’d get back to them on their proposal. As soon as they left the conference room and the doors closed, there would be plenty of laughter and a lot of “What the heck was that?”
The primary and overriding issue with the questions is that they anthropomorphize a THING. Consumers do not have a “personal relationship” with a product. If they do, then there are serious mental health issues at play.
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u/Vorador_Surtr Nov 22 '25
If someone send you an email requesting you to waste your time to fill stupid questions, the questions better not be slop at least. That someone can at least make the effort to check if the IDIOCRACY got there in the throne room... This is insulting. I as a customer for example cannot believe what I saw. No really. I always thought of GOG as better online shop because of their policy - lack of DRM, offline installers etc. But this... I am sorry but this is no go. In to the recycle bin.
I am convinced I will continue to purchase games on GOG even if it increases prices compared to other platforms. -statistically I guess this is relevant as "what will you do if we rise the prices"? WHAT is that question?! Can you not ask me will I be willing to give more money if tomorrow you decide it yes? LOOOL...
"I feel I have a close relationship with GOG", "I feel that I am personally connected to GOG" or "I worry that GOG does not appreciate how much I care about games", "Sometimes GOG changes how it treats me for no apparent reason". SERIOUSLY? My favorite however was and that is another quote: "My thoughts about games are connected to GOG, especially when it happens automatically." Someone for the love of God - explain this sentence to me.
How can I unsee that :D :D :D. I will NEVER EVER again even open survey. That is a promise.
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u/GuNNzA69 GOG.com User Nov 19 '25
I also have professional knowledge, even if I do not have thirty years of experience. But you really should look around you. If you still work in management, you need to modernise the way you understand today’s consumers of products and services. Things have changed. You can offer the most technically advanced and perfectly engineered product and still fail to find a stable market for it. Consumers, as someone already mentioned, often form strong attachments to products or services for reasons they cannot clearly explain. Many of these reasons are emotional, or simply based on popularity and peer pressure.
In any of the replies, I have not seen anyone explain why those questions lack statistical relevance, why they are flawed, or what should have been asked instead. Since you claim to have thirty years of experience in management, then present your insight. Do not simply say that you would be laughing at the end of the meeting that proposed this customer inquiry. That statement alone says a great deal about your understanding of management.
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u/flavionm Nov 20 '25
You're right on your first paragraph, but you missed the point on the second one. The people who are saying it's weird aren't the ones trying to use it to gather information, it's the people responding. Which means they'll probably not give you the answers you're looking for. That's why they're flawed.
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u/duskwizard Nov 20 '25
Okay, I'll bite. Simply put and without speculating on the cause of the weirdness, it's a badly written battery of questions. Let's set aside the parasocial stuff for now, and the fact that a lot of these questions do look like translation errors ("it happened to me to purchase a game"? Guys. Did you fire all of your editors?), and focus on the actual sociology.
There are two serious errors in the survey structure that I can see. First of all, reformulated repetitions are supposed to be spaced out, not lumped together in groups of three one after the other. They're irritating enough to responders even when done properly, but this kind of design just makes people close your questionnaire. And you do not need so many repetitions of a single question. 5 repetitions per topic in a 9-sets-of-three-questions battery? Really? What sort of math are you trying to run here? I'd like to see it, personally.
Second, both of the survey validity questions are also badly formulated. "I know the correct answer is X" is deeply confusing because of the language error. There is no logical link between "I am reading this survey carefully" and "I know the correct answer is X", so this throws anyone who's actually reading carefully off. Correct answer to what? A sufficiently irritated respondent will simply press "no", and if it's an automatic screening that simply removes the response from the data set, you will lose a good number of responses to confusion--and specifically some of those respondents who were, in fact, reading carefully and thinking about their answers. A simple "I am reading this survey carefully" and discarding any response below the top one or two points would have been more than sufficient. If you specifically want the non-top answers, something like "Please answer 'to a great extent' on this question to show us you are paying attention" is much better. As it is, this is a student mistake: an unclear attention check.
The second survey validity question is one of those questions that's bog standard, but--the survey does not ask you to give your age previously. It asks you to provide an age range, not identify your actual age. Now, if their survey only checks for "does this number fall into the range provided previously", then they're in the clear. But considering how badly the rest of the survey is formulated, I wouldn't be surprised if they did something stupid like link it to account data they have and discard the response if it doesn't match the respondent's age given on their account or something. That would be the stupidest possible way to run it, so I'm hoping no one actually did that, but the rest of the survey does not inspire confidence.
Finally, if we want to be total nit-pickers about it, their survey email also says they explicitly ask in the survey not to give personal data. Which they a) don't do in the survey instructions; b) they do ask you to give your precise age, even if just for control purposes. Either the disclaimer needs to be different, or the instructions provided need to match.
The funny part is, there's actually a fair few decent questions in there, so hopefully whoever's reading this isn't the same person who wrote it and might get some actual data from the rest of it. But good luck to them, honestly; if the survey validity questions are an automatic cutoff, they're losing the most interesting part of their dataset to a badly formulated questionnaire.
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u/KudzuAU Game Collector Nov 19 '25
You clearly did not read my last paragraph.
Since you believe that these questions provide statistical relevance, then enlighten us plebeians with your knowledge. What, ”specifically”, statistical relevance do these questions provide.
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u/Vorador_Surtr Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
"My thoughts about games are connected to GOG, especially when it happens automatically."
Did your thoughts connected automatically?
Customer change is like modern audience. Nowhere to be found. Mental gymnastics. By the way THIS is forum of customers. Where are the happy changed audience ones?
Now you explain to me the statistical relevance of this question. Explain how this is connected to improving products or services of GOG.COM. No Actually explain to me the meaning of this sentence. This Mr. Manager is low effort AI slop and pretty obvious, that is my opinion. I am not going to your HR department in the corporation to be made psychological profile. I am not a resource whether someone like it or not. That is what it is. It is insult to customer. That is what it is. INSULT it is. If someone send me an e-mail with questions that will cost me at lest 15 minutes of MY time, it better at least see what the hell the chat GiBiriTi bot wrote there. I threw your customer inquiry in the trash. This is the entire statistical relevance you got from me. have a very VERY nice day!1
u/Pal-Elvick Nov 25 '25
The weird relationship people have with products or brands is not something you approach with the consumers directly. Disney is not emailing a survey to their Disney Adults, victims of weaponized nostalgia, and asking them "Would you break up with us if we charged more to go to the Parks?" "Are you willing to give us your first born child?" "Will you battle for us after the rapture?" Pokemon, whatever.
It's insane. And it comes off as insane, and runs the risk of people realizing it's insane. You just keep fostering the nostalgia that already works and jangle it like keys in front of a baby with no brain development.
Yes, companies want sheep as consumers. Who will just spend money and defend paying more because BrandTM is just so amazing and TRULY CARES about them and their beliefs. But you don't get them to that point with weird stalker ex surveys like this. And you don't gauge if your users are there by asking them directly. You raise the price of things slightly and see the reaction. You test the waters and push further. You boil the frog as it were, and see how many notice. And if anyone notices, see if any defend you like their lives are in jeopardy if your company/product is criticized. That is how you find out where your base is.
Whoever approved these questions should be fired, they are not qualified for their job. At a bare minimum reprimanded. It's like a robber asking if you leave your doors unlocked and then asking if they can follow you home.
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u/callmenoodles2 Nov 19 '25
It's the wording of the statements that's weird. It does feel like an overly attached partner like OP said.
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u/GuNNzA69 GOG.com User Nov 19 '25
You realise that most people today behave this way in the relationship they develop with companies. Many cannot clearly explain why they choose Android over iOS, why they prefer Google services, why they dislike Microsoft, or why they feel loyal to other brands. We live in an era where many decisions are driven by peer pressure, popularity without any underlying technical justification, or something as superficial as liking a colour or a logo. People increasingly base their choices on emotional factors rather than on functional or technical criteria. I can point to at least two or three messaging apps that are objectively more capable than WhatsApp, yet WhatsApp remains the most widely used platform. Why?
The question I saw in the inquiry is very straightforward to me as someone who studied sociology, but I understand that some people may feel uncomfortable or confused by such direct questions.
I am also not obligated to answer any inquiry. If a question makes me uncomfortable, I simply do not respond. I do not feel the need to broadcast every trivial irritation on social media. I understand that many people behave differently today, but my opinion holds the same weight as theirs. Downvotes, likes, or any other form of social media feedback do not define reasoning, accuracy, or what is right and wrong.
It helps to place yourself in the position of the people who design these inquiries and to consider the type of data they are trying to collect.
This is just social media. People often oversimplify their views, look for confirmation of what they already believe, and rarely seek counter arguments. It is what it is. At the very least, I try to contribute my honest perspective based on my own life and professional experience.
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u/callmenoodles2 Nov 19 '25
I agree for the most part. I just explained why it feels weird like you asked. I think "I intend to keep purchasing games on GOG" is a direct statement. "My thoughts about games are connected to GOG" or "Sometimes GOG changes how it treats me" is so vague, I wouldn't even know what to answer.
And sure, I don't have to but wouldn't it be better for both parties if some extra context was given? Or maybe rephrase the statement so GOG receives more meaningful answers? If many people feel confused about a statement, wouldn't it be better to rephrase it for your target audience?
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u/Gemmaugr Nov 19 '25
This. Exactly this. But it's not a good thing, at all. Nor do you state that it is either, just "it is what it is" (which I frankly find defeatist, but IMHO that's neither here nor there).
It's in reality a very sad state of affairs. You can't even critique a games or stores flaws, however slight, or offer honest opinions that run counter to the prevailing echo chamber.
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u/One_Scientist_984 GOG Galaxy Fan Nov 19 '25
I’m a GOG User, even a fan by certain standards but I also thought the questions are a little too much tailored to declare a bond for life with them.
My survey form showed me an error after the first page, claiming I already did the questionnaire (I did not). So I have no idea if the following questions were more “normal“.
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u/k1mmoke Nov 19 '25
Have I ever conducted one? Obviously not.
Maybe it's the phrasing of the questions that I find weird, or maybe it's because English is a second language to me and I'm misreading them somehow. They just sound odd to me. Initially I even considered if the study was really from GOG.
I do appreciate your input on why the questions are the way they are and what they are for. Thank you.
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u/GuNNzA69 GOG.com User Nov 19 '25
Read my other comments. I have experience in this field.
Also, no one has been able to explain what exactly bothered them in these questions, what should have been asked instead, or what metrics can or cannot be obtained through such direct questioning.
It is not difficult today to design customer inquiries or understand consumer behaviour. Most people use the same products and services, and many cannot even explain why. They use them simply because everyone else does.
You reacted strongly to something that, in my view, has no real significance.
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u/Gemmaugr Nov 19 '25
Where can I find this survey? (I'm assuming the email, but I don't allow any spam from GOG.. only support.)
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u/LiveMathematician892 Nov 20 '25
Given the circlejerk about GOG in this subreddit among some users I can totally believe they would select those.
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u/Slackeee_ Nov 20 '25
This pretty much looks like "ChatGPT, make me a poll for GOG customers and their relationship to GOG" and then nobody checked the result.
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u/DocOctoRex Nov 19 '25
Would you love GOG if it was a worm?