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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 04:10:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 20:19 this Monday (GMT):
> Ditto.
>
>
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (cc customerservice@gog.com)
>
>> Dear GOG,
>
>> Please stop sending me emails with subject lines like
>> "JXLBB22HMAAUDUDL8N expires in 24 HOURS". It's really annoying.
>
>> It's not that I'm uninterested in those emails. If I were, I would
>> unsubscribe. I _want_ to hear about your sales and the various
>> discounts you're offering me. But that subject line is a real
>> turn-off. It screams "spam" and "skeevy marketing tactics" and
>> "corporate indifference to what people actually want" all in one. I
>> never read those emails. They go directly to the junk bin. And it's
>> all because of that stupid subject line.
>
>> I know, I know; there's probably some guy in marketing who swears
>> these subject lines are more effective. He insists that by keeping
>> things mysterious with an indecipherable subject, you're forcing
>> people to click through to the web-site and see what exciting deal
>> they're getting, and that once they're there, customers are 16% more
>> likely to buy, or something like that.
>
>> But your no-DRM stance indicates you're more than just the bottom
>> line; that you actually want to be a company with some morals and
>> meaning. And these stupid, aggravating, annoying -and in my case,
>> worthless- emails (since they're junked before I even see them) work
>> contrary to your goals.
>
>> So all I ask is that, in future, instead of seeing "RTBNJSDDGDFSADASDA
>> expires in 24 hours", instead have a decipherable subject line like,
>> "Your discount for Talos Principle expires in 24 hours". It humanizes
>> you, annoys me less, gets through my spam filters, and may actually
>> make me visit your web-site and buy the damn game.
>
>> TL;DR: stop listening to the hacks in marketing. They're hated for a
>> reason.
>
>
>> Yours sincerely,
>
>> A long-time and generally satisfied GOG.com customer
>
>> Me.


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