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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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Artificer: I doubt it, not their style and with their userbase it'd just get silly if the servers didn't outright crash within minutes.

Besides, this is hardly a GoG original anyway.
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nijuu: Havent seen anyone else have sale like this before :D
http://www.woot.com/
http://lifehacker.com/5501109/the-complete-guide-to-capturing-woot-off-loot

Not a game site perhaps but they've been doing these as "Woot-offs" for years, if not over a decade, and I'm sure that GOG got the idea from them.
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XYCat: So anything new while i was asleep or do they just repeat the same deals all over again?
They just released Dragon Lore :p Who cares about the sale anymore \o/
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XYCat: So anything new while i was asleep or do they just repeat the same deals all over again?
some deals of yeterday, just repeated in great numbers
Ok, that's really cruel - the first hours of the sale the number of copies from the sale games were 200-300 and they were gone within seconds. Now that everyone is out of cash or out of games to buy, they give us 1k copies to wait forever for them to flip - true script of a horror movie going on here.
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npalsensei: Well, Larry's going slowly today. Well, it's old, it already did well last time, it won't be that easy I suppose
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trebor8273: think eveyone who wanted would of picked it up last time, we will be here for days when omerta comes back up!!
As long as they don't bring Keane back, we won't be stuck here eternally.
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XYCat: So anything new while i was asleep or do they just repeat the same deals all over again?
Jack Keane 2 was on sale most of the time.
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XYCat: So anything new while i was asleep or do they just repeat the same deals all over again?
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hunvagy: They just released Dragon Lore :p Who cares about the sale anymore \o/
Hey, X:Reunion and XCOM:Enemy Within come out tomorrow and you don't see that stopping *me*.

I probably won't play most, if any of these for a month, they'll be held in reserve for Christmas holidays.
Selfishly I hope Jack Keane 2 comes back with 300 copies so I can go to bed and now miss BG2.
Here's hoping System Shock 2 shows up again, it's the only thing I've got left on my wishlist that's in the sale. Picked up a few other and an impulse buy so far.
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nijuu: Havent seen anyone else have sale like this before :D
It's pretty much the same as the Ibood Hunt we have around here (BE/NL I think). Sales like this have been around for years though this is the first time I see a digital retailer mimick it. With physical retailers it makes more sense :)
Post edited November 14, 2013 by Pheace
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nijuu: Havent seen anyone else have sale like this before :D
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Artificer: http://www.woot.com/
http://lifehacker.com/5501109/the-complete-guide-to-capturing-woot-off-loot

Not a game site perhaps but they've been doing these as "Woot-offs" for years, if not over a decade, and I'm sure that GOG got the idea from them.
Never heard of them. But it seems to work for GOG. Just need to have time limits on the games and it will work better next time around
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hunvagy: Mind the promo buuut.. we are getting FRIGGIN DRAGON LORE! Already listed in News and Coming!
And Super Hexagon as well!
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hunvagy: They just released Dragon Lore :p Who cares about the sale anymore \o/
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Artificer: Hey, X:Reunion and XCOM:Enemy Within come out tomorrow and you don't see that stopping *me*.

I probably won't play most, if any of these for a month, they'll be held in reserve for Christmas holidays.
True but those are not Dragon Lore xD But seriously, I was hoping for quite a while for those games to arrive on GOG. I love myself some Cryo games.
So since I have you all as a captive audience anyway, if I were to have an idea for a really amazing game, who would be willing to program it for me, and who would be willing to Kickstart it? =P
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Timelord1963: Congratulations, you just created a sentence that's never been said before :)

(and likely never said again ;)
The world is a cold and lonely place. :(

Really though I wonder if this would be received differently if Uwe Boll's name wasn't on it. From all I gather of the Postal games it's pretty true to the spirit of the games. Satire so obvious and over-the-top in its offensiveness it becomes actually quite playful in a way. I like so many things about it, the guy who plays Postal Dude is pretty cool, I laughed at the shoot-out that happens in the unemployment building, Dave Foley, the Soup Nazi as Osama bin Laden, Uwe Boll as himself as someone who peddles in Nazi gold, randomly inserted shots of children being shot and killed for no reason, an ending consisting of a nuclear explosion, how could someone not at least crack a smile?