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LOL, Wendy! You posted while I was still typing. But thanks for the link as I didn't even think of that!
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Nice changing the rules mid-month. Like it would have killed them to finish out February under the old rules. And this new rule is even worse than the previous rules. I'd rather be able to get a punch any time I redeem a PCC than have to wait until a Monday and hope that bonus punches apply to any game rather than just TGT.
With the amount of time I've been spending playing free to play games, I might just cancel my game club for a while. I find it difficult enough finding 3 SE games to fill a card, now I have to find 6 in the same month?
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I forgot to say that I think it was really unfair of them to change the rules right before the last Monday of the month as anyone who's been affected by it has to readjust their game purchases to fill a card TODAY or use GCCs or buy DDs during the week to fill a punch card and miss out on the extra punches.
Why couldn't they have changed it at the beginning of next month so we'd all have a month to reorganise our purchasing?
I sure wish I'd filled my punch card last Monday (I had 4 punches and only needed 1 more game with a PCC to fill it) instead of leaving the last PCC until this week to see if I preferred to get a new game that had come out in the interim. But I'm lucky I only had 2 punches left to fill a card! That way it'll only cost me one more PCC to fill my last punch card for the month.
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Tirama, just like Wendy you posted right before me! But I see that we are totally of the same mind. I agree that I'd much rather get a punch whenever I use a PCC than have to wait for a BPM and only get a bonus punch, which seems weird as we get a punch either way, unless they're stopping BPMs.
As soon as I've finished using all my GCCs I'll be stopping my membership and only rejoining whenever ... IF ... they have another BOGOF, which is what I've been thinking for a while. I just have to use them all first.
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Sunshine, did you get an email from GH yesterday with a 75% off code - 75DISCOUNT - valid until midnight tonight? I know you didn't get the last one but thought you might have gotten this one. If you did, did it work for you?
I've been battling with CS all night, trying to find out why it wouldn't work for me. Jason at first said that the code was still valid and suggested all the usual fixes, none of which worked. After a few emails back and forth he eventually said, and to quote ... "Checking on to your account information I see that you have subscribe for Funpass GH 1 year 30% discount $69.99! The discounted coupons will not work on to your account because the discount is already added on to your account!" Did you notice the 2 exclamation marks?!?!?!?! Just because I got my FunPass on sale doesn't mean that I'm not entitled to any discount offers going! After my - very polite - reply, pointing out that I always got the offers and they always worked and that, as I'd been sent the offer in an email, I should be able to use it, he replied, apologising for the wrong information he'd sent me , along with an apology that the code wouldn't work for me, and a free game coupon.
What is it with game sites today?
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The only thing that's stopping me from hitting the cancel button right now the fact that I don't miss the 6.99 each month but I might find it difficult to come up with extra money when there's a sale. I have an odd amount of GCC's so I'll wait a month and give it some more thought.
But I certainly won't be buying anything unless I have a list of at least 6 SE's that I could use pcc's on, and my head is hurting trying to figure out what to do with the pcc's I have to use next month.
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Tirama, I'll be able to help out with extra PCCs next month if you need them as I have lots of PCCs expiring in April after this last BOGOF and quite a few coupons from BFG that never expire. I don't have any PCCs expiring next month so I won't be needing any extra, and I can't see me wanting 6 SEs as I only get SEs of CEs through BFG as most straight SEs are available on GH (sometimes before BFG) and I can play them with my FunPass without having to buy them. But you never know, maybe by the end of the month there'll be 6 SEs that I want and maybe we could work something out. You can still use GCCs, though, and get the extra punch for both SEs and CEs.
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stusue wrote:
Tirama, just like Wendy you posted right before me! But I see that we are totally of the same mind. I agree that I'd much rather get a punch whenever I use a PCC than have to wait for a BPM and only get a bonus punch, which seems weird as we get a punch either way, unless they're stopping BPMs.
Yes, but if we have to wait for a Monday to get a punch for a pcc, we get less days to pick out a game, so while we may get 1 punch either way, only getting it on Mondays works to BF;s advantage. We may use it on just any game to get the punch and the day after out comes something we have to have and so we dip into our wallet.
If they were planning on stopping BPM, why change the rules now? Just finish out the month and surprise us next Monday when there's no promo.
And it might have been nice if the change regarding pcc's was mentioned on the blog, ot the Facebook page, or in an email, rather than buried in the help page for pcc's. Not getting a punch for a pcc is a BIG change. BF has teh right to change the rules whenever they want, but they also have a responsibility to inform us of that change. I should have to read the ENTIRE website each and every time I get a game to see if the rules are the same as the week before.
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stusue wrote:
Tirama, I'll be able to help out with extra PCCs next month if you need them as I have lots of PCCs expiring in April after this last BOGOF and quite a few coupons from BFG that never expire. I don't have any PCCs expiring next month so I won't be needing any extra, and I can't see me wanting 6 SEs as I only get SEs of CEs through BFG as most straight SEs are available on GH (sometimes before BFG) and I can play them with my FunPass without having to buy them. But you never know, maybe by the end of the month there'll be 6 SEs that I want and maybe we could work something out. You can still use GCCs, though, and get the extra punch for both SEs and CEs.
I only buy CE's with my GCC's and only when there's a BOGO. I struggle each month to find 3 SE's to use my pcc's on. This new rule might just change that and I'll stop buy CE's. I just don't know. Right now I feel like pcc's are worthless to me.
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Just found this on the top of the Help home page:Due to recent changes in the Game Club Punch Card program, redeeming a Punch Card coupon code for a free game will no longer earn a punch on your punch card. You can still get a bonus punch for using your Punch Card coupon code during a Bonus Punch promotion.
I've been on that pge the past couple of days sending emails to CS, I could swear it wasn't there earlier when I cantacted them today about my missing punch. Anybody else notice it before now?