GOG has launched the Freedom to Buy initiative, offering delisted or controversial games for free to protest silent censorship and promote access to legal, responsibly made titles.
Yes. Germany for example requires a proper age verification with id, but since stores don’t want to implement that, they just block these games. At least GoG lets you buy them through a VPN. Steam is much more thorough and won’t let you buy them if the account has German payment info or a German address linked to it. You can create a second account with vpn and buy the games on that account using gift cards, but you can’t gift the games to your main account.
I hate Cloudflare so much. It’s getting to the point that some apps I use in browser will just stop working, and when I reload the tab to reset it, turns out Cloudflare was blocking the traffic until I do their stupidass human test.
Anyone else having issues redeeming it? Hope I can nab them before the deadline.Nevermind, I got it when I disabled my PiHole. 🤷
Quite ironic, given the subject
Tried multiple times on different devices, no luck
Can’t get it to work either, maybe some of the games are blocked in some regions?
Had trouble getting them from Germany. Had to VPN to the UK.
Thats pretty funny given the current “save the children” censorship in the uk that is going on.
Looks like I have to renew my Mullvad sub for one month again 😀
Did not work for me in Germany either. Had to VPN to Canada to claim it.
Yes. Germany for example requires a proper age verification with id, but since stores don’t want to implement that, they just block these games. At least GoG lets you buy them through a VPN. Steam is much more thorough and won’t let you buy them if the account has German payment info or a German address linked to it. You can create a second account with vpn and buy the games on that account using gift cards, but you can’t gift the games to your main account.
I couldn’t redeem on my phone until I opened Firefox instead of embedded chrome and log into GoG before I could get past the damned Cloudflare hell
I hate Cloudflare so much. It’s getting to the point that some apps I use in browser will just stop working, and when I reload the tab to reset it, turns out Cloudflare was blocking the traffic until I do their stupidass human test.