It's a start.

Honestly, though? What I've got planned long-term will be a lot more fun. It'll take a while, to be sure, and require more than a little luck and logistics, but it'll be way better. =)

You sound like a general with a chest full of medals waving his sword at the horizon ;-)

Yeah, that makes a kind of sense. Other than a few really big ones, like the Lucas Arts stuff and Grimrock etc, a lot of the games in this have been ones I've personally known little or nothing about. Very middle of the road stuff that you might not buy at full price.
But still, they could have chosen good unknown games...

But that brings me nicely to something I was thinking about... when GoG gives a game away for free, do the developers / publishers agree to do so, or do GoG pay them their share anyway?
I know in this kind of sale it's probably the later, and wouldn't cost GoG overly much to do that, but when they gave away AoW or Mount and Blade who footed the bill?

To become a registered GOG backup server?

Or a lunatic with piss-poor impulse control.

One of the two. ;)
I would say it's an agreement with GOG and the developer. The developers choose a maximum amount of free items they're willing to provide as a way to get additional exposure for their games, probably with predictions included based on GOG showing them the ultimate probability and projection for just how many games they'll be giving out, then GOG loads up that amount into the randomizer hopper for people to have a try at.

Thank you! I'll take it with me to make the pose even more awesome ;-)

I just have a bigger list now, that's all. =)

LOL! No, really this was good, I liked it a lot!

I figured it was either that or donate your entire collection to charity and become a social worker.
It was a close call.

-laughs- An antisocial social worker...I wonder how that'd work, exactly.

That makes sense. I suppose when they gave away AoW and M&B there were new additions to each series just come out that the were promoting, so they could probably afford to give away a lot of an older title to get people interested..

Although, ironically, I think the freebies had the opposite effect on me as having heard about how great M&B was I installed the freebie and played the tutorial and just found it really boring...

I might be about 75 percent out of my gourd on a daily basis, but I refuse to have my head up my ass so hard that if I clench up I might kill myself from sphincter-induced asphyxiation, so I can't really be like those people are. ;)
Right. It's a way to get a lot of buzz about a promotion.

As for Mount and Blade, I was tempted to grab the whole nine yards, and I probably will at some point regardless because it's me, but I haven't even tried the first one yet.
Too many other things with higher priority.

Having sat through (almost) three of these extravaganzas, I still don't understand the principle behind having only two (or even a dozen) games available at any one time. If its a sale, GOG ought to try selling the stuff by making all of it available to everyone all of the time. Have it last only a weekend if they want to inject some urgency into the proceedings, but this present approach really is pants. Too frequently there are long drawn out periods where people are aching to spend money on the titles they want but are forced to watch their fingernails grow instead. I just don't get it.

Having got it for free, and heard so much about it I tried it pretty much as soon as I got it to see what the fuss was about... but I honestly haven't a clue, I didn't play the proper game but the tutorial told me all I needed to know... combat felt clunky, repetitive and boring, controls weren't great, horse riding was really irritating...
I'm not quite sure why it's got the reputation it has...