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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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ryanyth: wow blackwell bundle. Talk about being obscure.
Lets hope its not another Jack Keane 2.
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Senteria: That would be an insult to the game creator cause those games are really fun.
Oooo i remembered playing a demo about a girl who became an unwitting medium to a ghost.
Can't remember where i played it tho, not sure if its the right game, but hey at 2.99, its worth a try.
I like adventure stories with dark touch anyways.
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MrVonClassico: Yeah, might want to come up with a sale concept that does not encourage click-bot use.

Seriously what's the point of these freebies if:

A. 80% of the time the stock is exhausted before the title of the game even has a chance to load in.

B. When you do manage to beat the auto click scripts your servers basically are choked by the mass of clicks that you get a lovely try again' message.

My suggestion, put a five second delay between change or something, or randomize the name and position of the button element to throw the click bots off.
It's fine as it is.

It took me a quite a few attempts, but I got one. It's not as impossible as it seems.
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Ydrisselle: It was 2 hours ago. I bought it since i have missed its first appearance.
They already broke the order of appearance, so it's hard to predict. :)
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mondo84: These games haven't been repeated yet:

Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic $2.49
Anodyne $2.49
Aquanox $1.49
Aquanox 2: Revelation $1.49
Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga $1.99
Baldur's Gate 2 Complete $1.99
Beyond Good and Evil $2.49
Book of Unwritten Tales $4.99
Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav $3.99
Deus Ex GOTY $1.99
Don't Starve $4.99
Evoland $2.49
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams $2.99
Icewind Dale Complete $1.99
Inquisitor $3.74
King's Bounty: Crossworlds GOTY $4.99
La Mulana $2.99
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver $1.49
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded $7.99
Lords of Midnight $1.93
Lucius $3.99
Master of Orion 1+2 $1.49
Might & Magic 6-pack: Limited Ed. $2.49
Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Ed. $1.99
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident $1.99
Omerta: City of Gangsters + all DLC $7.99
Planescape: Torment $1.99
Primordia $2.49
Rayman Origins $4.99
Resonance $2.49
Sacred Gold $1.99
Shelter $3.99
Space Colony HD $2.49
Startopia $1.49
Strike Suit Zero $4.99
System Shock 2 $1.99
Tales of Monkey Island $5.24
Thief 3: Deadly Shadows $1.99
Torchlight $2.99
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms $1.49
Two Worlds 2: Epic Ed. $3.99
Wargame: European Escalation $6.69
Wing Commander: Privateer $1.49
Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings $5.99
Those seem like a lot of non-repeats. Maybe the copies are done for some?
Blackwell is going.... going.....
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mondo84: These games haven't been repeated yet:

Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic $2.49
Anodyne $2.49
Aquanox $1.49
Aquanox 2: Revelation $1.49
Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga $1.99
Baldur's Gate 2 Complete $1.99
Beyond Good and Evil $2.49
Book of Unwritten Tales $4.99
Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav $3.99
Deus Ex GOTY $1.99
Don't Starve $4.99
Evoland $2.49
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams $2.99
Icewind Dale Complete $1.99
Inquisitor $3.74
King's Bounty: Crossworlds GOTY $4.99
La Mulana $2.99
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver $1.49
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded $7.99
Lords of Midnight $1.93
Lucius $3.99
Master of Orion 1+2 $1.49
Might & Magic 6-pack: Limited Ed. $2.49
Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Ed. $1.99
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident $1.99
Omerta: City of Gangsters + all DLC $7.99
Planescape: Torment $1.99
Primordia $2.49
Rayman Origins $4.99
Resonance $2.49
Sacred Gold $1.99
Shelter $3.99
Space Colony HD $2.49
Startopia $1.49
Strike Suit Zero $4.99
System Shock 2 $1.99
Tales of Monkey Island $5.24
Thief 3: Deadly Shadows $1.99
Torchlight $2.99
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms $1.49
Two Worlds 2: Epic Ed. $3.99
Wargame: European Escalation $6.69
Wing Commander: Privateer $1.49
Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings $5.99
thanks for list +1
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mondo84: These games haven't been repeated yet:

Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic $2.49
Anodyne $2.49
Aquanox $1.49
Aquanox 2: Revelation $1.49
Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga $1.99
Baldur's Gate 2 Complete $1.99
Beyond Good and Evil $2.49
Book of Unwritten Tales $4.99
Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav $3.99
Deus Ex GOTY $1.99
Don't Starve $4.99
Evoland $2.49
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams $2.99
Icewind Dale Complete $1.99
Inquisitor $3.74
King's Bounty: Crossworlds GOTY $4.99
La Mulana $2.99
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver $1.49
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded $7.99
Lords of Midnight $1.93
Lucius $3.99
Master of Orion 1+2 $1.49
Might & Magic 6-pack: Limited Ed. $2.49
Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Ed. $1.99
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident $1.99
Omerta: City of Gangsters + all DLC $7.99
Planescape: Torment $1.99
Primordia $2.49
Rayman Origins $4.99
Resonance $2.49
Sacred Gold $1.99
Shelter $3.99
Space Colony HD $2.49
Startopia $1.49
Strike Suit Zero $4.99
System Shock 2 $1.99
Tales of Monkey Island $5.24
Thief 3: Deadly Shadows $1.99
Torchlight $2.99
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms $1.49
Two Worlds 2: Epic Ed. $3.99
Wargame: European Escalation $6.69
Wing Commander: Privateer $1.49
Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings $5.99
thanks!!. Handy :)
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justanoldgamer: I've decided to compile a list of people to whom this sale is not fair. I hope GOG uses it to try and reach them in their next sale:

Aliens (No one outside the solar system was able to get a free game)
Do you have any proof that they didn't get any of those free games? ;)
See, GOG? See what happens when you keep me up way past my bedtime?

I get mean. And I start trying to out-logic the illiterati.

This cannot go on much longer.
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Fictionvision: Blackwell is going.... going.....
And going, and going so any Energizer should lost power 2 copies of Jack Keane ago.
I wonder if anyone has actually read every post in this thread since it began. I'm sure somebody has but 7700 posts in a little more than 24 hours. That be a lot of time lost keeping up with this one.
This must be the biggest and fastest moving thread here. I feel sorry for any staff member who has to try and page through thousands of comments to find out what happened and how it was received. Anyone think a thread like this can or will be topped any time soon?
Dun know if i should say this, but i hope the next one is Jack Keane 2.
Need to go sleep. need to go sleep. need to go sleep.
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ManiacSolution: Doesn't change the fact that the majority of people who get the free games are running scripts, leaving us common mortals with a 1% chance of being fast enough to click.
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zeffyr: Not really, I guess your Internet connection might be the most important thing. Yesterday (and almost whole night) while hunting at freebies I only got one of them. Today, at work, where my Interent connection is better, I got 3 of them.
It is definitely mostly your connection. As an experiment I set up three machines here on three different networks; one of them showed the last freebie zip by and then started the counter for the following game before the other two even showed the freebie. So if I had been using one of the other two I would literally never have had a chance (which I was all yesterday lol).

Now to diagnose why this one network is so much faster than the other two...
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ryanyth: Dun know if i should say this, but i hope the next one is Jack Keane 2.
Need to go sleep. need to go sleep. need to go sleep.
Don't Keane me, bro! Don't Keane me!