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Tirama -- I'm a bit leery about thinking that the codes will work on the day after the sale is over. How long will it be before they change that, too?
The people at BFG are probably busy designing F2P and mobile games. 
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stusue - since we know those codes will work a day aftr the sale is officially over, it wouldn't hurt to wait until Mondays to see what happens.
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Tirama, they don't always work the day following a sale. Just recently I waited until the Monday to get some games using the weekend sale code and it didn't work that Monday. 
I still waited until the Monday, however, until this weekend, as I hadn't expected a BPM the Monday following the cancellation of said BPMs. Nor could I assume that they'd keep the codes going for a further 24 hours after the end of a sale (which, as I've said, hasn't always been the case), especially after the other changes that have occurred. If they've stopped giving punches for PCCs except on a BP day, and stopped a weekly BPM sale to get more sales with fewer punches, then I thought that they might also stop the extra day to use sale codes. And I wanted to get a couple of the CEs now and not wait until the next BOGOF (assuming there will be one). But I only missed out on a few punches so it's no biggie.
I'm just going to see if I can take advantage of maybe the last BP day before my next lot of PCCs expire to get enough punches to fill a card for the month.
As who knows when the next BP day will be?
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Tirama -- I'm a bit leery about thinking that the codes will work on the day after the sale is over. How long will it be before they change that, too?
The people at BFG are probably busy designing F2P and mobile games.
If they don't work the next day, no big deal for me. I'll just wait for the next sale. It's not as if I have nothing to play.
The people at BFG are busy making silly videos and playing gummy drop.
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stusue - since we know those codes will work a day aftr the sale is officially over, it wouldn't hurt to wait until Mondays to see what happens.
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Tirama, they don't always work the day following a sale. Just recently I waited until the Monday to get some games using the weekend sale code and it didn't work that Monday.
Are you talking about when you recently wanted to use the COLLECT code? If so, you made that post on March 31, which was Tuesday. The weekend codes won't last until Tuesday.
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stusue - since we know those codes will work a day aftr the sale is officially over, it wouldn't hurt to wait until Mondays to see what happens.
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Tirama, they don't always work the day following a sale. Just recently I waited until the Monday to get some games using the weekend sale code and it didn't work that Monday.
Are you talking about when you recently wanted to use the COLLECT code? If so, you made that post on March 31, which was Tuesday. The weekend codes won't last until Tuesday.
Tirama, what I said on 31 March (which was 30 March BFG time) was that I was THINKING of using the COLLECT code to get a CE to fill my card. Then, on 1 April (31 March BFG time), I said that I'd USED the code to get a CE to fill my card, which I used on Monday 30 March BFG time, so not a Tuesday. I have no idea how the dates and times that I have for my posts show up for you as, now that I'm in Sydney, I'm 18 hours ahead of BFG time so, for example, I have until 6 pm Tuesday evening, which is midnight on a Monday BFG time, to use any PCCs on a BPM.
So, no, that wasn't it. When I said 'recently' it may have been a few months ago, even at the end of last year. I can't rememer. All I remember is the shock when it didn't work on the Monday. But then all codes since then have worked 24 hours following a sale. It just made me realise that we can't always count on the codes working 24 hours after a sale as, at least on one occasion, that hasn't been the case, and especially after all the changes to the punch card system.
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stusue - you're making my head hurt with all the time zones.
I don't think anybody could have predicted this BPM. If BF is annoyed about people using the weekend codes to get extra punches on a Monday, the smart thing for them to have done was fix the codes so they only work during the advertized times and stop screwing around with when we can get a punch for the pcc. Or just come right out and say "No more punches for using pcc's no matter when you use them." At least we'd know where we stand.
I just used the CE coupon I got due to the bonus punch monday March Mayhem, since it expires April 17 and I figure this might be the only time to get a bonus punch. Got Dead Reckoning: Brassfield Manor Collector's Edition. Used my only pcc and got Easter Riddles. So I still need to find another punch this month.
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Nobody could have predicted it but I just had a feeling
. I went to the main page instead of the PC page like I usually do, just to check, cause I expected them to do something like this. That's why I held off on the sale yesterday. They're a bunch of freakin' weirdos, sometimes I think they sit around and try to think of ways to piss us off. I don't know if this is a thank you or an F. U.
Tirama, if you need to borrow a PCC later in the month just let me know.
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Tirama, my head always hurts with all the time zones, especially when I travel in either direction between Sydney and Oldenburg, and also with daylight saving time (Summer time?). 
And I totally agree about the PCCs. The way it is now, with BP days whenever they decide to have one, it's going to make it fun trying to work out punch cards.
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Drats! Talk about different time zones and Daylight Saving Time! Midnight BFG time is now 5 pm Sydney time !!!!
I've been so busy today with Mum and visitors, and we had lots of workmen and assessors here today, as well as the doc, that I just tried to finalise my PCCs and punch card before midnight, only to find that the time's changed AGAIN now that our Daylight Saving Time finished this past weekend and so I was 20 mins too late! After trying so hard all day today to find 5 mins here, 5 mins there, trying to work out what games I wanted to get and finally, FINALLY working it all out, I was a lousy 20 mins too late. I just wanna cry!
I've used all April's PCCs, so that's okay, but I didn't get to use the CE coupon code that expires next week to get the extra punch, nor to get 2 SEs using the code EGG to get 4 punches to fill a punch card for April. So now my punch card's all screwed up as, if I use the CE coupon to get a CE next week, then that will be one punch on a new card and, without another BP day or BOGOF, I'll have to use 5 CSCCs to fill it. For the first time ever I'd probably just let the punch go as I can't see me wanting 5 SEs (it was hard enough finding 2) and I'd rather use the CSCCs on a BP day to get double the punches.
Oh well, there are far more important things than punch cards ... but I just hate the way everything's screwy and uncertain with the whole punch card system at the moment.
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Wendy and Anki ... VERY IMPORTANT!
I'm sure you're aware that, up until now, the coupon code we get each month as part of our FunPasses has to be used by the 15th of each month.
Well, March's code has to be used by 8 April ... ie. TOMORROW!
And April's code has to be used by 2 May !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never bother to read the emails when they come as it's always been the 15th of each month and I have no idea why I actually checked out March's email. But lucky I did!
But with those dates it seems like we're now getting codes with only 3.5 weeks between them, rather than a month (4.5 weeks), so it's all good as, should it continue, we'll get an extra coupon each year. But it's just one more thing to have to think about and remember each month!
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