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.
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.