MulderYuffie
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This is so amazing <3 GOG
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Starting today you can import some of your Steam games into your GOG library
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Randy Monk
Member
YOUR ACCOUNTS ARE BEING CONNECTED
Due to exceedingly high demand this may take up to several days, please check back later. Thank you for your patience.
Due to exceedingly high demand this may take up to several days, please check back later. Thank you for your patience.
runnin_blue
Banned
Yep, I slept on it, woke back up this morning and it is still not connecting for me. Is it STILL getting hammered with requests this many hours later? That's crazy.YOUR ACCOUNTS ARE BEING CONNECTED
Due to exceedingly high demand this may take up to several days, please check back later. Thank you for your patience.
stan423321
Member
That's not how it works. There is an hour at which Valve's counter resets. At that point they may automatically let through queued people, OR they may allow getting through again, but it's a set point of time. Once people broke the limit for the day, it won't go through even if you're the only person of the hour trying.
runnin_blue
Banned
Ok. I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I've never failed to log into Steam (unless there was a major outage), so I'm assuming you mean exceeding the limit from GoG's side? As in Steam can see all these requests coming from GoG's direction and is limiting them?
RazorbackDB
Member
It worked for me a couple of hours ago.
stan423321
Member
Yes. GOG Connect is a registered third-party Steam service (to handle logging in and invisible libraries), so Valve obviously sees it's from them. Valve also limits these services by default to some number of calls a day, to basically avoid one way of DDoSing Steam.
runnin_blue
Banned
Cool, that makes sense.
Hope I can get in before these games expire in 5 days then.
Your games won't expire in 5 days until GoG sees them. If GoG SEES them you'll be able to redeem instantly on GoG side, with no issues from Steam.
It's completely on GoG. Keep checking GoG until they have your Steam library "seen" and eligible.
runnin_blue
Banned
But it says you have 5 days to redeem these games. On the main connect page.
EDIT:
How long will these games be eligible?
Duration will vary from game to game the time left to redeem each game is shown on its respective product icon above.
(Which is 5 days)
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Yes, I am now. Earlier today it was on the "please wait" message or whatever it was.
...Which is what I'm saying.
ONCE GoG SEES THEM that's when you have to worry about the time limit. You connecting your account and not seeing anything doesn't start that timer. It's on GoG's end to talk to Steam to see which games to give you those 5 days for. Once they know which games you're eligible for, they'll give you five days to redeem
runnin_blue
Banned
Where are you seeing a timer starting mentioned? I'm reading it as, these games will be up for redemption for the next 5 days and then they will be gone. Confusing.
It's misworded. The redeeming won't shutdown in 5 days (otherwise why would they implement this after doing it for Stalker and the Witcher before it?). If their servers were hammered for 5 days straight, nobody would be able to redeem. It makes sense that the timer for your account(s) being linked won't start until GoG can look through your Steam account see what you have and then tell you "okay, here's what you can redeem. You have FIVE DAYS to do that."
runnin_blue
Banned
Ok, I hope you're right.
poppedcollar69
Member
This is so great! I wonder if the participating devs are doing so merely out of the kindness of their hearts
Memorabilia
Member
Backlogger
Member
So earlier I saw the games I was eligible for, clicked redeem and they weren't added to my GOG library and they don't show up anymore as eligible.
This thing is awesome, but very buggy...
This thing is awesome, but very buggy...
poppedcollar69
Member
keep getting an error before even being able to link accounts :c
Pheace
Member
It's not misworded, the games that are available for redeeming will change over time. Says so right in the announcement:
runnin_blue
Banned
This is what I thought too. I really hope I'm able to get in and redeem my games before they expire. Has CDPR/GoG management commented on anything?
According to Steam API terms, the calls are limited to 100k/day.
http://steamcommunity.com/dev/apiterms
Surely GOG can negotiate higher numbers?
http://steamcommunity.com/dev/apiterms
Surely GOG can negotiate higher numbers?
Pheace
Member
Just that popularity is overflowing the service, I wouldn't worry about it too much, every day there should be less and less people trying to get through (since they'll have done it already)
runnin_blue
Banned
True. I'll keep trying.
Mithos
Member
Yeah this is what happened to me today, it connected the accounts and found games, "5 days icon" on them and poff gone.
However, WHEN the game (if it does) show up again with that 5 days icon, what do I do then?
zerokoolpsx
Member
I was able to link my account, but I get this.
Guess I'll come back tomorrow and check again.
runnin_blue
Banned
Ok. Mine finally worked. There is light out there lol. Don't give up people.
It's weird: It already has shown me the stuff that is eligible, but when I click the Import button, it hangs itself. That can't be on the Steam API, right? At that point it already has the info it needs, but it just does nothing, forcing me to refresh, which means I have to start from 0. Limits or no, this seems like quite an amateurish implementation on part of GOG.
dr_rus
Member
You should receive email when they'll be added as if you've bought them for free. If you haven't then try adding them again.
Finally worked, not that I was doing anything different. I guess it's going to get better once things settle a bit. If not, GOG should try to negotiate something with Valve, where they can get higher daily limits.
I was not able to it yesterday. Went ok today with import today. I am sure things are good now and can only improve.
That sucks.
I had 8 games added, so that's a start for me. It says to check each time new games are added so I guess as long as you're around for the redemption period you can add them, if not, you're SOL?
runnin_blue
Banned
Yeah, mine finally went through earlier this evening.
stan423321
Member
It's not mentioned in the FAQs, but it wouldn't be surprising. Valve's wording about Steam Web API suggests something like this.
Pheace
Member
A blue recommended it in the official thread
Is your profile set to private on Steam?
MikeHattsu
Member
Looks like they've added Surgeon Simulator 2013 to the list of games it works to connect. Wasn't there when I linked yesterday at least.