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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
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ClaudioAGS: 955ms here... LOL
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stan423321: For further fun, ping secure.gog.com. My results were 6/7/7/9 ms for normal GOG and 7/7/8/8 ms for secure connection.
960ms... about the same... I believe I couldn´t get even JE if I wanted... LOL...
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Prydeless: ...
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MysterD: Still got BG1 code, eh?

Not sure if there's anything on my "HAVE" list that you'd want from me in a trade, so go look if interested:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/classifieds/post8294
Sorry, not looking to trade for now.
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smoother: Windows 7 (64bit)
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mudd1: Then I have no clue. Every other OS and you could just have entered "ping IP-address" on the console. I think in Windows it used to be just that, too, only in that cmd.exe thing. I think they don't have that anymore, though? There's probably some tiny GUI thingy that you can download for free that does the same.
Windows 7 search bar: type 'cmd' press enter.
type 'ping www.gog.com' press enter.
Post edited November 18, 2013 by stg83
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Marcin: I have about 15-20 ms on crappy 10mbit line.

IMHO GOG should add long and difficult CAPTCHA to all freebies.
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jjsimp: Hell no. Die already CAPTCHA. I can't stand CAPTCHA and will avoid it like the plague it is.
Well, they could do it in some fun, GOG-y way. Or make some kind of mini-game. Just to add some randomness to response time (and to eliminate bots).
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vpaulve: Jade Empire™: Special Edition on Steam $3.75 USD, check..
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MysterD: Steam's so trolling GOG's Jade Empire deal - hehe.

Waiting for Gamersgate to troll GOG and put their D&D Anthology: Master Collection on sale:
http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-DBAMC/dungeons-and-dragons-anthology-the-master-collection
75% off somedays... Better price than GOG, but I dont know if its a only download all games.
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smoother: how do I ping a website? (sorry I'm a total noob ;)
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Ninlil: You could have an option in your router.
The classic system, under winxp is
Start->Run
cmd
ping google.com

or, for more details :
tracert google.com
Thank you and everyone who replied!

I got 45ms (with active downloads 234ms)
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Knofbath: That's the web caching, try secure.gog.com.
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keef0723: Avg: 358ms for me.

How does that translate? Slow?
Well, definitely slower than my connection. Too bad for me I'm easily distracted.
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Knofbath: That's the web caching, try secure.gog.com.
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keef0723: Avg: 358ms for me.

How does that translate? Slow?
Did someone sever the Aussie's undersea cable again.
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jfelsman: Reus looks fun. Think it will come on sale at the end of the year?
Here's it on sale if interested: https://www.humblebundle.com/store
I'm so close to buy The Pit just o make the counter go down faster >.<
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Knofbath: That's the web caching, try secure.gog.com.
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keef0723: Avg: 358ms for me.

How does that translate? Slow?
It's pretty far away, so that about normal for the distance. I get 135ms trying to hit Poland from the US, and I haven't gotten any freebies from the sale. Hitting a US based server I can usually get ~35ms ping times.
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mm3n: I read that few days back in this thread and learned, lol.

Open cmd in windows and type ping www.gog.com

I hope I explained it well xD
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JoseWisemang: Weird... i did this and got between 10-15ms from the US..
AFAICS, it's not really www.gog.com you're interested in (2.16.62.89 or 2.16.62.130). It's 2.16.62.112. Same subnet so it shouldn't make a huge difference but when the server is really brought to its knees, you might see it in a spike in the ping times but only for that exact machine.
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jjsimp: Hell no. Die already CAPTCHA. I can't stand CAPTCHA and will avoid it like the plague it is.
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Marcin: Well, they could do it in some fun, GOG-y way. Or make some kind of mini-game. Just to add some randomness to response time (and to eliminate bots).
I say they do this:

Every game you buy wins you a raffle ticket. At the end of the sale, they raffle away all the freebies.
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keef0723: Avg: 358ms for me.

How does that translate? Slow?
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jjsimp: Did someone sever the Aussie's undersea cable again.
The wombats, koalas and kangaroos keep chewing on the cables.....
Getting like 51-52 for secure.gog.com with active download running.