seaspanky: "
You might even have a chance to get a free game, if you're lucky that is."
Is the amount of people getting free games down quite a bit from previous promos? I haven't seen the same widespread free game winning success as I did during previous years.
Not sure there is a way to even begin to measure that. :) I've participated in all the past promos like this that had freebies and never got even a single one (not that I cared either way mind you, but it's nice to win if you do <grin>), however in 1 day of this promo I did get 2 free games already so if I were to base something on that I'd say this promo gives infinity more free games than all previous ones combined. That's not enough data to make accurate judgment from however, so such math is pretty much almost all "margin of error".
I can make some other observations though. Insomnia sale #1 was shiny new and attracted tonnes of people and there was massive chatter in the forums of epic proportions from it including praise, bickering, and everything the Internet has to offer. There were glitches because it was new and lots more to say about that etc. GOG refined it somewhat for the 2nd Insomnia and again for this one and I think while there are still glitches and problems that arise for people - there always will be, but that this time around everything is a lot more honed and smoother so less problems to report (even though there are problems). It's not shiny new anymore though and so while many folks came for the first one the new ones lost that shiny new status for many, and also for people who decided Insomnia sale wasn't to their taste and avoid it for their own reasons. Forum participation in these threads seems lower than prior Insomnias by a good amount but I don't think that reflects less interest but rather that it lost its shiny new badge and it runs smoother so some portion of people have less to say.
If I am right in that, if less people have less to say, we'll hear less of what is happening in the sale for them including how many people might be winning free games, and so we have no way to remotely tell whether there are more or less or any other way to look at it. Additionally the way free games are handled is much cleaner and less problematic than before, and is much fairer of a system and less gameable. Again, smoother so less to complain about something working poorly.