Bought the same game twice by mistake :)

Angilion

Angilion

Angilion

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The inevitable finally happened. I just bought a game on GOG that I already have on Steam.

Please reassure me that I'm not the only numpty who's done that :)

GOG's advertising worked - an email offering me a mystery dicount code was enough to get me to take a look and it turned out to be a hefty dscount on Elex. A quick look at a "buy, rent or stay away" review convinced me that it was worth the discount price, so I put it in my shopping trolley. Then I added a few more games while I was there and bought them...then I had a browse around and bought another batch because why not?

I should have realised how little attention I was paying when it wasn't until my second batch of purchases that I noticed that I was paying in euro instead of pounds because my VPN was set to Eire instead of UK :)

Ah well, it was only a £5 game.

And now I am back to seriously wanting faster internet. At 1.2MB/s, it's impractical to buy many games. Old stuff that's <1GB is fine, but when a game is dozens of gigs that's far too many hours of downloading. 15 minutes to choose some games, 50 hours to download them. But since I live in a wretched hive of scum and villainy, that's the best I can get...unless I go to Virgin. Who will charge me £50 a month for phone and broadband. And it's more fuss than switching ISP on the same cabling.
 
You aren't the only one! I've done it with books as well. I bought a guide book thinking I didn't have one for that area already. It turned up, I went to put it on the shelf with the others and I realise I'd already got a copy. Luckily I got away with a free return on Amazon as the spine was a bit torn when it arrived so I could return it as damaged and get all my money back.
 
Rather unusually, I actually played one of the games I bought! Eschalon book 1. Very old fashioned isometric RPG with low res (800x600 only) and some clunky aspects to the user interface, but good. So I went to buy Eschalon 2 and 3...and found that I already own Eschalon 2 :) On GOG, thankfully, so I didn't buy it again.

I could use a meta-launcher that covers different launchers. I buy on GOG for preference, but I have a lot on Steam too. And one on Bethesda, but that one doesn't matter. I might buy RDR2, so that would be another launcher. I realise that most publishers love their spyware and exclusives (so only they get all the data), but it's annoying. I'd buy every game on GOG if I could.
 
I did it with Metal Gear Solid 5. Saw a cheap deal to buy the dvd version, bought it, went to redeem the code on Steam. "You already have this game". Bought about 2 years previously in a sale and utterly forgotten about. Tried a cheeky steam refund since I had zero minutes playing it, was told to sod off. Lesson learnt.
 
So I haven't finished downloading yesterday's purchases...and I just bought another 17 games. I'll still be downloading games in a month at this rate. GOG (the best shop by far) and 90% off...ooooh, clicky clicky :)

Wait...you're supposed to play games? I thought the fun was in shopping :)
 
Angilion said:
Wait...you're supposed to play games? I thought the fun was in shopping :)
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Browsing through indie titles and think wow this looks amazing, definitely my type of game, i must buy it.
launch steam, find the game, oh its already in my library
all of a sudden that urge to play that game instantly dies
 
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