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Posted November 13, 2013
Deals so good, you won't want to fall asleep.
You remember back when you used to walk into a store, browse the shelves, pick out a game, and then buy it--all in the actual real world? We don't know about you, but most of us at GOG.com have had our limbs atrophy to small vestigial nubbins since all of our shopping happens online these days. Of course, one thing that sometimes happens in real world stores with real world goods--particularly when they have a good sale--is that they run out of stock. Usually that means that the deal was so good that they couldn't keep up with demand.

Well, in the digital realm, this is usually pretty rare. How do you run out of stock on digital games, short of entropy devouring the universe? Well, we have gotten 101 games that will be on sale on the front page of GOG.com, but the discounts are so high at the moment that we can't just sell an unlimited number of copies of these games: we are only able to sell a few at these discounts--up to 80% off--and once they're gone, they're gone.

So what games will be on sale in our Insomnia promo? Bestselling classics and new games alike. There will also occasionally be some free games in super limited numbers (like, 20 or 30 copies)--if you're fast enough on the trigger finger to pick 'em up, that is. The deal will run from now until we're out of "stock" of games for the sale, and games may show up more than once. So it's time to bathe in a tub of coffee*, dip some espresso**, snort an energy drink***, or do whatever else it takes to stay up so you don't miss out on the best deals on fantastic games on GOG.com since summer.
*This is probably not a good idea
**This is definitely not a good idea
***This is totally safe, though****
****NO IT'S NOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU CRAZY PERSON
Post edited November 13, 2013 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted November 15, 2013
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Briareos262: OMG I love Maniac Mansion, I still have it for the C64. Yeah I remember some variations of the Atari systems. My cousin had the Atari 5200 and I remember my aunt sledgehammering that poor system later on because he played it too much or something. The Atari ST and Amiga system really looked awesome at its time, tho sadly never gotten to play any games from them.
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mantarrochen: I also had (and still have) an Amiga 500 and of course later on with the 1MB extension. Man, that slot was huge, took almost the whole backside of the keyboard (which was the computer).

I believe the Amiga reached its natural end because developers migrated to the PC more and more and the PC featured HDD systems practically from the get go. The latter one was huge, I remember juggling 11 disks while playing Monkey Island 2, that was no source for joy, I can tell you. Piracy was as rampant on PC as on the Amiga if not more so that didnt stop the progress. The Amiga had better music in general though.
Wow thats amazing a 1MB extension at the time. Holy crap 11 disks for that and here I though it was bad with the C64 drive and swapping the 4 floppy disks of Wasteland alot was bad enough. OMG I love that game. Still my top favorite to this day with Fallout 1 right next to it =D

Yeah piracy has been around for a very very very long time. It was kinda fun with the copy protection the companies tried to use with codewheels and paragraph searches. Ahh fond memories, I remember I had. it was a mix of pain in the a$$ and fun at the same time, heh
Posted November 15, 2013
They need to think of how to improve these sales to not have hours of waiting on some games.
Posted November 15, 2013
The best part about this promo. Spending twice as much as I normally would on a regular sale.
Posted November 15, 2013
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Xabyer_B: List of games appeared in this thrid and last round:

Rise of the Triad $7.49
Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator $1.49
System Shock 2 FREE
Blood (One Unit Whole Blood) $1.49
Master of Magic $1.19
Jack Keane 2: The Fire Within $11.99
Lords of Midnight $1.93
Myst: Masterpiece Ed $1.49
Miasmata FREE
Eador: Masters of the Broken World $5.99
Sniper Elite $1.99
Baldur's Gate 2
Might and Magic 1-6
Sniper Elite: Berlin FREE
Book of Unwritten Tales
Thunderscape
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gbaz69: Thanks, darn it I missed out on Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator :/
You're not missing out on much unless you really really LOVE bad/mediocre jRPGs.
Posted November 15, 2013
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trebor8273: how long has thunderscape been going now? GOG you really should of put small numbers of games up for the last round, been a great sale but this last round has been poorly thought out
I totally agree with you here. On the third round, there's no sound reason to have 500 or 600 copies of the game on sale. Unless it's something hugely popular like NWN.
Posted November 15, 2013
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Craig234: They need to think of how to improve these sales to not have hours of waiting on some games.
The community already has: time limits. Yay, for the people on this thread! (And the total lack of sleep!)
Posted November 15, 2013
you don't need to wait, you can choose some games from another great promo: http://www.gog.com/promo/pcmac_weekend_promo_151113
Posted November 15, 2013
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CorranHorn: NES was my first console, sadly I sold it with all my games (even had Mike Tyson´s Punch Out which later was renamed) and my Zapper (Duck Hunt was so damn fun to play, Gumshoe made me go berserk=)).

Got a SNES mostly for the Street Fighter 2 (probably the game that made me buy a SNES over a Megadrive/Genesis). And boy did I want the NEO-GEO, so many good games but that was just something I could dream about since it cost a fortune.
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Briareos262: heh, had to take a quicke nap, my whole body is still tired of waiting for the good sales....mostly just Don't Starve ATM.

Anywho yeah my first system was Atari, it was great at the time. However the NES just blew it out of the water after it came out I remember after the Atari video game crash age. I too had sadly sold my NES a few years later after it was bought. Luckily I rebought again right before there were gonna move on to SNES. OMG SNES was like a renaissance again for the videogame era. great times great times =)

Oh yeah the Neo Geo that was insane I remember drooling over that console wanting to get it in my younger days, however the home console and the carts were uber expansive. System was like $500-600 and carts ranged from $150-200+ at the time. !t was way too rich for me and still never gotten around to getting one. Even the Neo Geo Pocket I missed too =( which I recall was alot cheaper and games too.
Not sure if this is just nostalgia or just me having become too cynical, but NES and SNES games, when you got a good one, each was like a Christmas present. It was hard to go wrong with many of them, especially those made in-house at Nintendo. Nowadays, I just feel like "Eh... another system, another game" and it just does not get me as excited as it used to.

I remember getting Final Fantasy 2 and 3 (really 4 and 6 respectively) for different birthdays, and my reactions to them. 2 was along the lines of "What's this?" while 3 was "WHAT"S THIS!?!? OMG - DID YOU GUYS READ MY MIND!?!" Have yet to experience a repeat of 3's reaction for any game since.
Posted November 15, 2013
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gbaz69: Thanks, darn it I missed out on Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator :/
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WingedKagouti: You're not missing out on much unless you really really LOVE bad/mediocre jRPGs.
thats your opinion it got pretty good reviews and a lot of people like it
Posted November 15, 2013
yea it's been very painful waiting for thunderscape to finish up...man i really need sleep but I want nwn2!
Posted November 15, 2013
I never spect that thunderscape would take so very very long.

Only to help get it over with, I'll politely ask if someone be willing to gift it to me. If I get it I'll post a The WItcher key in the ninja thread as thanks.
Posted November 15, 2013
holyshit. is this getting close to Eador and JK2 status?
Posted November 15, 2013
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amok: Gog had this sale for 2 days, with 102 games on various discounts (80%-50%). For the sake of the customer - what would have been the difference in having all those sales in the 'normal' type of sale?

Doing as they have done has been very successful for gog, it brought a lot PR and they flogged a lot of games. Fine for them, but it has taken in use of some tactics which I do not like, and which are not in the best interest for the buyer. They neither get a deeper discount than they do in a normal sale (80% - 50% is normal for sales now), nor the option to brows and shop the games at their leisure. Do it was a good move for gog, but I really do not like those types of pressuring sales tactics. (You may not think so, but the counter on the front page do make it so)

(not to mention they may have been able to flog some more copies of less popular games this way, than they would have in a normal sale... I don't know... maybe the digital warehouse needed some Christmas cleaning?)
I find the discounts to be higher than usual. GOG usualy have 50, 60, 66 and 70% discounts. Rarely they have 75% discounts and very, very rarely 80%.

For ex. I've never seen Heroes of MIght and Magic 3 discounted by 75%.
Posted November 15, 2013
Welp, I'm going to grab lunch.

Hopefully then I'll be able to grab a copy of Witcher 2, when Thunderkeane has finished.
Posted November 15, 2013
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nijuu: holyshit. is this getting close to Eador and JK2 status?
Looks like it. :(
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