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Posted March 21, 2016
Limited-quantity deals round-the-clock | Tired-looking sheep.



UPDATE: Time to go to bed, everyone! It's been a fun, intense, coffee-fueled week but the sheep has finally saled on this Insomnia sale so everyone can now get their (hardly needed) beauty sleep. Or go try out those fine-looking games they snagged moments before stocks disappeared. So long and don't let the bedbugs bite. Slay them for precious XP, instead.
Remember to check your email for your unlocked freebies, and you can always contact <span class="bold">Support</span> if there is anthing you're missing.



Don't fall asleep, don't look away… heck, just give up blinking.
Prepare yourselves a cauldron of hot coffee and stock up on eyedrops! Our infamous Insomnia Sale returns with a relentless stream of limited-quantity deals, one game after the other, nonstop until the games run out. Or the sheep doze off.

We've been studying your valuable feedback on this annual event, including comments like "AAAAARRRRGHHHHHH!!!" and "Please, why won't you let me sleep?!". We took them to heart and decided that what you guys are saying is that you need more gaming stimulants to fight away sleepiness. Worry not, we're here to help.

You lucky Insomniacs will also be treated to a number of games never before seen on GOG.com as well as the best-ever deal on our crowning jewel - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (-50% after the recent price drop, that's $24.99 in the USA).


If you want to learn more about the intricacies behind this whole science of non-sleep, check out the promo <span class="bold">FAQ</span>. But don't dally there too long, because games will start disappearing before your bloodshot eyes!

The GOG.com Insomnia Sale starts Monday, March 21, 2:00 PM GMT and will run until the limited-quantity deals run out.

While counting sheep and game deals, make sure to also drop by our <span class="bold">imgur</span> page and grab your Insomnia wallpapers.

Twitch Insomnia Marathon

We won't let you fall asleep while you're waiting for your favorite game to go on sale! Tune in at any time of day or night to twitch.tv/GOGcom for the best games being played by our mighty team of streamers, joined by special guests. 20 streamers. 100 hours of gameplay. Lots of empty coffee mugs.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by maladr0Id
Posted March 24, 2016
They did say 100 hours of gameplay for the Twitter feed, so I expect they planned for today.

Not sure that plan would include new games though.
Posted March 24, 2016
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styggron: Yes I did see this in the FAQ. I find it very un-GoG
Explain.
Posted March 24, 2016
Now, this is interesting.
I clicked on Grimrock II, with just one copy left.
It seemed to do nothing but then I was taken to the pending orders page.
But I got the full price, not the discounted one.
Could be a simple glitch... or an indicator that there are no more discounted copies left.
Post edited March 24, 2016 by j0ekerr
Posted March 24, 2016
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j0ekerr: Now, this is interesting.
I clicked on Grimrock II, with just one copy left.
It seemed to do nothing but then I was taken to the pending orders page.
But I got the full price, not the discounted one.
Could be a simple glitch... or an indicator that there are no more discounted copies left.
Yeah, if that last guy completes his order before you click, it does do that. I've had it happen to me at least twice. It's been since early in the sale, anyway. Not a new 'feature'.
Post edited March 24, 2016 by PincushionMan
Posted March 24, 2016
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j0ekerr: Now, this is interesting.
I clicked on Grimrock II, with just one copy left.
It seemed to do nothing but then I was taken to the pending orders page.
But I got the full price, not the discounted one.
Could be a simple glitch... or an indicator that there are no more discounted copies left.
With only 1 copy left, the simplest solution is that someone clicked the button before you did and got the last discounted copy.
Posted March 24, 2016
Damn, I missed the steep discount on Recettear.
Posted March 24, 2016
New games added ... in 10 minutes ...
Posted March 24, 2016
Talos Principle maybe as a surprise?
It's not brand new, the publisher is here on GOG, and probably does not shift a single copy more on Steam anymore - but well wished here and can be deeply discounted.
Posted March 24, 2016
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IFW: Talos Principle maybe as a surprise?
It's not brand new, the publisher is here on GOG, and probably does not shift a single copy more on Steam anymore - but well wished here and can be deeply discounted.
No, they don't want to support 2 different versions, same reason we don't have Serious Sam HD FE+ SE and Serious Sam 3 BFE.
Posted March 24, 2016
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The_Blog: Never forget, never surrender D:
By Keane's hammer, by the sales of GOG, you shall be avenged.
Posted March 24, 2016
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The_Blog: Never forget, never surrender D:
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InfraSuperman: By Keane's hammer, by the sales of GOG, you shall be avenged.
Ah, that's why it sounded familiar.
Post edited March 24, 2016 by Laberbacke
Posted March 24, 2016
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IFW: Talos Principle maybe as a surprise?
It's not brand new, the publisher is here on GOG, and probably does not shift a single copy more on Steam anymore - but well wished here and can be deeply discounted.
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omega64: No, they don't want to support 2 different versions, same reason we don't have Serious Sam HD FE+ SE and Serious Sam 3 BFE.
I maybe wrong but I wonder if they do not use one of these last-gen DRM and I wonder if it's possible/easy to provide a DRM-free release since the protection may be deeply rooted. Not saying that it's a good thing either.
Posted March 24, 2016
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omega64: No, they don't want to support 2 different versions, same reason we don't have Serious Sam HD FE+ SE and Serious Sam 3 BFE.
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cal74: I maybe wrong but I wonder if they do not use one of these last-gen DRM and I wonder if it's possible/easy to provide a DRM-free release since the protection may be deeply rooted. Not saying that it's a good thing either.
Last gen DRM?
Posted March 24, 2016
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omega64: No, they don't want to support 2 different versions, same reason we don't have Serious Sam HD FE+ SE and Serious Sam 3 BFE.
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cal74: I maybe wrong but I wonder if they do not use one of these last-gen DRM and I wonder if it's possible/easy to provide a DRM-free release since the protection may be deeply rooted. Not saying that it's a good thing either.
DRM for the most part is easy to bypass. It isn't some all pervasive code that is deeply embedded into every function of the game.
Posted March 24, 2016
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TwistedFate.385: With only 1 copy left, the simplest solution is that someone clicked the button before you did and got the last discounted copy.
This is actually a pretty common concurrency issue given in a upper level CompSci course at college. I've always heard it called the Critical Region issue, with a little Producer-Consumer thrown in for fun. Picture two trains that share a tunnel with one track (sale price). There's another track that goes around the mountain (full price). One train is the 'reserve a ticket', regular train; the other is 'purchase this game', express train. The express has a higher priority, and probably pushed your purchase to the siding, then eventually forced you to go to the round the mountain track.

For instance, say a game has 20 copies. Two people take the 20-copies cookie. One of them buys it immediately, and another one sits on it for 10 minutes and mulls it over <- that was me, BTW. With the first guy's purchase, the server side counter consumes a license, now 19 copies are left. Let's say that time passes, and 18 more copies are purchased, and there were 5 more mull-it-over people. Now the game is showing 1 copy left. You go and click on the buy-it-now button, just as the other person clicks on 'complete my transaction'. Since complete my transaction had a higher priority, that pushed you onto the buy now but full price track.

Here's were we can consume more than we produce:
Now, you'll see that it is potentially possible to sell more items than you have. If the ticket holders above decide to complete their deals, they can take the number of copies sold to 25, instead of 20, because those 5 sit on the fence people decided to cough up the cash. I strongly suspect that's why some games did not show in the rotation nearly as often as others (D&D Enhanced & Metro, I'm looking at you), and why others (Kerbal) show up every 8 hours. I'm betting that D&D sold 5x what they were expecting due to people completing the checkout process after the sale had ended.

TL;DR Computer Science is fun and easy. Just don't ask me about NP-hard problems. Those give me a headache.
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