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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 14, 2013
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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.
I hope it is too, I need my life back.
Posted November 14, 2013
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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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Artificer: Show me your proof.

Wait, you have none.

I, on the other hand, can show you post after post of real people, known to the community here, who are not using scripts or bots.

You see what I mean about evidence? But then, the world is just so full of people who aren't willing to accept that when they don't get something it doesn't mean that they were cheated upon.
LOL @ guy asking for evidence, and then showing none him/herself.
Posted November 14, 2013
what was the last freebie??
Posted November 14, 2013
Septerra went faster than I'd expected. This has been an interesting experience, seeing what games GOGgers favor the most. Apparently, the point and click adventure community (the one I'm probably a part of) in here isn't as big as I thought. Big enough to buy those games fast, but definitely not as huge as the strategy or RPG ones.

I don't think any action RPG (anything non-turn based, even when it's *remotely* turn based) will be up for grabs, and most of the ones I'd want I own already.

So far I only got three games out of this sale, not because there weren't great titles being discounted, but because I already have most of the games that interest me. So, all I nabbed until now were Baldur's Gate 2 (fan of Infinty Engine games, mostly on account of the great Planescape: Torment, and BG2 was oddly lacking on my collection), Theme Hospital (never played it, heard of it, I like some of Bullfrog's games, thought I might as well give it a try) and Psychonauts (have it on disk but was too good a deal to pass, that game is AWESOME).

And now, my fellow point and clickers, please buy the Blackwell Bundle, I can't recommend it enough. Any P-n-C adventure game published by Wadjet Eye is sheer gold.
Posted November 14, 2013
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ryanyth: Need to go sleep. need to go sleep. need to go sleep.
Hold on! 40 minutes more and Steam will refresh new deals too!
Posted November 14, 2013
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ww_gog: 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.
:) I probably have read at Least 80% of all the posts probably more like 95%.
Posted November 14, 2013
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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.
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Thruggsen: 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...
Damn it, Jim, science isn't allowed in here.

CLEARLY BOTS AND SCRIPTS RUINED TWO OUT OF THREE NETWORKS.
Posted November 14, 2013
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Artificer: I know an AWFUL lot of people not using a script or a bot who would disagree with you, but I suppose ACTUAL EVIDENCE THAT YOU'RE WRONG isn't going to have any impact on your CONSTANT CHILDISH WHINING, now is it?
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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.
That's not a fact at all if you cannot back it up with numbers, it's not a fact, it's just your hunch. In these 380+ pages people have been telling over and over again how they managed to get a free game just by quick clicking. It's more to do with luck (and the luck of having a fast connection) than anything else. There's thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people waiting for the chance to click on a free game and each time there's only about 25-50 giveaways. Do your maths.

This sale is not about free games, it's about selling games cheaps, the freebies are just icing on the cake. Buy games, or don't buy them if you don't want to or can't buy them, but this whining about supposed java-scripts without any evidence is grating on the nerves of people who are here to buy games.
Posted November 14, 2013
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Artificer: 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.
It's OK, let's just step back and keep having fun.

That is, of course, until Jack Keane: Citizen Kabuto goes on repeat and we have to wait until the world ends.
Posted November 14, 2013
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Ungunbu: what was the last freebie??
Sword of the Pit i think.
It zoomed off in a flash.
Posted November 14, 2013
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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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Artificer: Show me your proof.

Wait, you have none.

I, on the other hand, can show you post after post of real people, known to the community here, who are not using scripts or bots.

You see what I mean about evidence? But then, the world is just so full of people who aren't willing to accept that when they don't get something it doesn't mean that they were cheated upon.
show me a proof that this is not true ;)
Posted November 14, 2013
ok thanks
Posted November 14, 2013
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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)
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Thrashie: Do you have any proof that they didn't get any of those free games? ;)
I could show you but then I'd have to erase your memory.
Posted November 14, 2013
Actually, the whining is proof that this promo is good and popular. If there's many participating, there will undoubtedly be those really whiny. + it means the sale has people's full attention.

The one extra buy of a whiny customer is easily exchanged with 10 new customers.

As to "impossible" - you're just plain wrong. I'd guess there are thousands if not tens of thousands of people competing with each other with their internet speed and lucky clicking. Usually 40 freebies given. You do the math.

PS I got 3 freebies with a mediocre connection not anywhere near Poland. And I don't have any idea how to run a script on this.
Posted November 14, 2013
It *does* seem to be following the original order at the moment. minus certain games

Rayman Origins
Ultima 7 The Complete Ed. $1.49
Defender's Quest $2.99
Tropico 3 Gold Ed. $2.99
Primordia
Heroes of Might & Magic 3: Complete Ed $2.49
Spellforce Platinum $2.49
Retro City Rampage $3.74
Jade Empire: Special Ed $2.99

are the next ones ....if u ignore the ones repeated already
Post edited November 14, 2013 by nijuu
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